Our words don’t matter anymore. There once was a time when they did. Media reach was limited by its medium, be that print or electronic, but with the advent of social media and the omnipresent internet, something changed. Anybody’s thoughts…
The Psychedelic Renaissance needs a Christian counterculture
The Psychedelic Renaissance has arrived. From Blue states like Oregon and Colorado to conservative stalwarts including Utah and Texas, bills to make psychedelics legally accessible are spreading quickly. Stereotypical drugs from 1960s and 1970s counterculture like magic mushrooms, mescaline and…
Is your church ready for the spiritual revolution of LSD, DMT and magic mushrooms?
At the end of my first year of divinity school in 2021, I took advantage of recent decriminalization laws and ingested between four and five grams of the Psilocybe cubensis, a naturally occurring psychedelic mushroom. For six hours, I clutched…
What an experiment with psychedelics 60 years ago might teach us about faith today
Sixty years ago, on Good Friday 1962, Civil Rights leader and minister Howard Thurman preached in Marsh Chapel on Boston University’s campus. Full of striking verbal imagery about Jesus’ suffering and God’s glory, his 85-minute sermon shook the otherwise silent…
In their own words: Young faith leaders on why young adults should get vaccinated
Current research shows that young adults in America represent one of the least-vaccinated demographic groups. To address this concern, BNG reached out to a diverse group of young clergy and faith leaders to hear their own stories of choosing to…
Two years later, I still must say, ‘John Chau was my friend’
Sometime after the morning of Nov. 16, 2018, John Chau died on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean. He had illegally attempted to perform missionary work among the Sentinelese, an uncontacted people group, and they killed him when he…