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News Articles: Series: Enlighten Me with Rachel Martin

Vanessa Zoltan's memoir is all about how she learned to read literature like sacred texts.

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  • Religion

This 'Jane Eyre' enthusiast invites you to treat your favorite books as sacred text

Author and atheist chaplain Vanessa Zoltan finds spiritual meaning not in the Bible or the Torah but in secular texts.

August 27, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Vanessa Zoltan says the theology that she was raised in was the Holocaust.

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  • Religion

Why this chaplain sees her atheism as a gift

Vanessa Zoltan describes herself as a Jewish atheist whose outlook on the world and her spiritual life is defined by the Holocaust.

August 20, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
GPB  NPR

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  • Religion

Why 'the guy' from 'The Office' wants a spiritual revolution

Rainn Wilson's book calls for a spiritual revolution in America. And even though he himself is a very funny guy, he is not joking about this at all.

August 14, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Martin
Patty Krawec at a Wet'suwet'en solidarity event at the Canada-U.S. border.

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  • Religion

This writer shares the right (and wrong) ways to honor Indigenous spirituality

Sometimes we find belonging in the most unexpected places. And sometimes, we find it buried deep in our own histories — in our own family legacies, as Patty Krawec did.

August 06, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Professor Lisa Miller has dedicated most of her career to the study of neuroscience and spirituality.

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  • Religion

This Ivy League researcher says spirituality is good for our mental health

A Columbia University professor says spiritual beliefs can decrease our rates of anxiety and depression. I needed to understand how she came to these conclusions.

July 30, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Dan Harris meditating.

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  • Religion

The former news anchor at the center of the mindfulness movement

As an anchor for ABC News, Dan Harris' career seemed pretty sorted out. Then his book about mindfulness took off.

July 16, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Ayyā Somā (left) and Bhante Suddhāso (right), the co-founders of Empty Cloud Monastery.

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  • Religion

These Buddhist monks want their faith to be known for more than just mindfulness

In a world full of mindfulness as a buzzword, what does life look like for those who follow the theology that birthed it?

July 10, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Sarah Hurwitz grew up in what she would describe as a culturally Jewish home. But it wasn't until she reached her 30s that she really connected with the spiritual identity she was raised with.

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  • Religion

She found meaning where she least expected it — her childhood faith

Sarah Hurwitz grew up in what she would describe as a culturally Jewish home. But it wasn't until she was in her 30s that she really connected with the spiritual identity she was raised with.

July 02, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Jon Ward says it got to a point where he didn't like being in an environment where everyone thought the same thing.

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  • Religion

He walked away from his evangelical roots to escape feeling suffocated

The evangelical movement was Jon Ward's church, his family, his community, his music, and his identity. And then he broke away.

June 25, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
John Blake's story is about growing up as a Black kid in West Baltimore in the 1980s and learning painful secrets about his family.

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  • Race

He saw the ghost of his racist grandfather. It helped lead to meaningful healing

John Blake's story is about growing up as a Black kid in West Baltimore in the 1980s, learning painful secrets about his white mother and, as he recalls, a ghost.

June 19, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Trevor Powers says his mind kept drifting to the "what ifs" questions after he lost his voice.

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  • Religion

Losing his voice gave this singer a new appreciation for God — and being alone

Trevor Powers went to the doctor in October 2021 for a minor stomach ache. He was prescribed an over-the-counter medication and expected it to clear up in a couple days. But that's not what happened.

June 11, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Katherine May's new book examines the idea of awakening wonder in an "anxious age."

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  • Religion

How to hold onto a sense of wonder

Katherine May's new book examines the idea of awakening wonder in an "anxious age." And when I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth.

June 04, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
GPB  NPR

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  • Religion

Playing a religious character without making faith the punchline

There was something revelatory about the way the HBO show Somebody Somewhere gently hold the spiritual identity of one of its characters. It wasn't a punchline.

May 28, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Simran Jeet Singh, pictured here in the days after the attack on the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. in 2012, says he turned to his faith to help him through.

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  • Religion

Letting go of hate by questioning the very idea of evil

Author Simran Jeet Singh talks about how to move beyond hate and anger to see the humanity in others.

May 21, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Roland Griffiths' research showed how psychedelics can alleviate depression in people with terminal diseases.

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  • Health

He helped cancer patients find peace through psychedelics. Then came his diagnosis

Roland Griffiths is known as the scientist who helped prove that psychedelics can alleviate depression and mental anguish in cancer patients. That pursuit has since become a lot more personal.

May 14, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin

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