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Sojourners Magazine

Writer's picture: Jaime Clark-SolesJaime Clark-Soles

Updated: Jul 9, 2024

Published May 2024

What Do Christians Need To Know about Psychedelics?

New research is persuading some clergy to move beyond a “just say no” approach.


IT WAS DARK. Totally dark and empty. Andrea Smith felt a familiar hopelessness. “Of course I’m all alone,” she thought. “It’s my greatest fear.”


Smith, a pastor in the United Methodist Church, was at the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research in Baltimore, in the first moments of a psilocybin trip designed for clergy...




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