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Episcopal Church removes priest who founded Christian psychedelic society
A different kind of poverty memoir
Dana Trent’s heartbreaking and hilarious book eschews the conventional American rags-to-riches arc.
Soul-altering substances
What implications does the psychedelic renaissance have for faith and spirituality?
Maggie Nelson finds freedom in the emphatic middle
Her new essay collection examines how Americans thread the needle between care and constraint.
by Richard Rosengarten
"Why you even invite us to any of this," asked Richard, "if you’re just gonna humiliate us and throw us out?"
by Chris Hoke
Drugs are perhaps the ultimate consumer product. They give an instant, intense hit, and they're used up in one go.
by Luke Bretherton
by Dean Peerman