The Psychedelic ChristianSerious writing on a serious question
This is not a fringe conversation. Theologians, biblical scholars, clinical researchers, and journalists at major institutions are engaging the intersection of Christian faith and psychedelic experience with rigor and care. The collection below is curated and growing — each entry links to the full text.
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The Potential Religious Relevance of Entheogens
A constructive theologian argues that Christian theology can no longer ignore entheogen-occasioned religious experience — and sketches what taking it seriously would mean.
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Mystical / Religious Experiences with Psychedelics
From the researcher featured in Episode 36: an overview of what decades of clinical study reveal about the mystical experiences these substances can occasion, and why they matter for religion.
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Fundamental Factors in Safe and Effective Psychedelic Therapy
Richards on the conditions — preparation, trust, setting, and skilled accompaniment — that clinical research has found essential to safety and depth.
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A philosopher of religion and the Episcopal priest who founded Ligare map the emerging encounter between Christianity and psychedelics — its promise, its questions, and its stakes.
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Psychedelic Christianity: Commentary and Reply
The scholarly conversation continues: commentary on the "Psychedelic Christianity" thesis and the authors' reply — a model of how this debate should be conducted.
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A Theological Reckoning with "Bad Trips"
An unflinching look at difficult and distressing experiences — and the theological resources the Christian tradition holds for suffering, darkness, and the dark night of the soul.
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Psychedelics, the Bible, and the Divine
A New Testament scholar asks what Scripture itself has to say to this conversation — and what this conversation asks of readers of Scripture.
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Psychedelic Mystical Experience
A biblical scholar brings the language and literature of mystical experience in the scriptural tradition into dialogue with contemporary psychedelic research.
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A provocative and imaginative essay — offered here not as settled conclusion but as a spur to careful thought about experience, Spirit, and the early Church.
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The Johns Hopkins Study on Clergy and Psychedelics
The landmark study in which religious professionals — pastors, priests, rabbis — received psilocybin in a research setting. What they reported changed the conversation.
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The feature that brought the clergy–psilocybin conversation to a national audience, following ministers through the Hopkins research and its aftermath.
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