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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.

A hostage situation at a Texas synagogue left the attacker dead � but all three hostages were able to escape. The synagogue's rabbi says security training helped them survive. This hour, a Burlington rabbi who's done that similar training with her community reflects on the continued need for that kind of preparation today.

What do you do when a place that once held your community together no longer does? Do you hold onto it, or do you let go? A man in the town of West Enosburg recently had to answer this question.

The handwriting on the wall came during a nearly two-hour argument involving a challenge brought by two Maine families to the state's unusual way of providing public education.