Religion

A U.S. Supreme Court decision about private school tuition payments violates the Vermont Constitution. House lawmakers were not able to come up with a solution in a bill that was passed recently.

Crosspoint Church, the operator of Bangor Christian Schools, argues new rules were intentionally created so that the school could not receive tuition payments.

Host Mikaela Lefrak discusses how Vermont’s legislature is considering changes to the ways private and religious schools receive public funding.

Host Mikaela Lefrak explores what should happen to closed houses of worship.

For decades, a congregation in North Thetford had been dwindling. So they decided to donate their building to a group that could make more use of it. That’s how the church ended up in the hands of the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust.

At least eight religious groups in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, from different faiths wrote more than 1,200 thank-you notes to public school employees thanking them for their work with students since the start of the pandemic.

Seder is a Jewish ceremonial dinner that begins the springtime festival of Passover. A prominent Passover theme — liberation — sparked a different kind of Seder in the mid-90s: a Pride Seder. The event marks key milestones in the struggle for LGBTQ rights. And this marks the first year that a Pride Seder is being held in Vermont.

Earlier this month the novelist Salman Rushdie was repeatedly stabbed before a talk he was scheduled to give in western New York. The attack left the 75-year old with serious injuries that required surgery, and he was unable even to speak after being placed on a ventilator. His long-term prognosis is uncertain.

Facilities offering the psychedelic ayahuasca, still technically illegal, have popped up across the country, including in New Hampshire.

Four artists based in Vermont talk about their initial reactions to the Supreme Court's recent ruling on a case that rolled back reproductive rights and legal abortion in the United States. They also responded with creating music, dance, jewelry and visual art.