Jonathan Craig
A Life-changing Change of Heart
Last year, Welton talked to Louis J. Marinelli, once a rising start in the so-called National Organization for Marriage, effectively helping to lead the fight against marriage equality. Then he had a change of heart and walked away. Louis joins us this week to talk about his new book: A Change of Heart: Working for [...]
Religious Context for a Change of Heart
The President this week cited his faith as a key factor in his evolution to supporting same-sex marriage. On State of Belief this week is Jay Michaelson, associate editor at Religion Dispatches and founder of Nehirim: GLBT Jewish Culture & Spirituality, to share his thoughts on the religious aspects of this historic event. Jay is [...]
Electoral Implications of a Change of Heart
When the President spoke out in support of marriage equality this week, it seemed that everyone – on both sides of the debate – had a press release ready to go and they all hit “send” at the same time. Each had its own theory about what this meant for President Obama at the polls [...]
May 12, 2012
This week, America witnessed a monumental change of heart – for the first time in history a sitting President spoke publicly in support of marriage equality. What does it mean to have a change of heart – and go public about that change – even if many around you might disagree with your new belief? [...]
National Day of Reason
On Thursday, many Americans observed what President Obama proclaimed to be a “National Day of Prayer.” He was legally mandated to do so, in a practice dating back to 1952. Thousands of events took place around the country, most organized by politically-oriented, conservative-leaning Christian groups. In truth, this annual celebration is most ostracizing to Americans [...]
The possible future of the American women religious
It’s no secret that many American Catholics are sick of the church scandals, of the politicization of their faith by American bishops, of much of what their Church has become – and for many of them, it’s the women religious that give them some hope in the future of the Church. But since the story [...]
The 2010 Religion Census
Every 10 years, the Association of Religion Data Archives publishes the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies’ 2010 US Religions Census: Congregations and Memberships Study. One of the contributors is Dr. Dale Jones, director of research services at the Church of the Nazarene Global Ministry Center in Kansas, and he joins us this week [...]
Pastors Against Amendment One
On Tuesday, North Carolina voters go to the polls. Even without a crystal ball, we can predict that Mitt Romney will win the Republican primary, and President Barack Obama will win the Democratic primary. So it’s tough to imagine many voters going to the trouble, except that the voters who do turn out will hold [...]
May 5th, 2012
It has been quite a week at the intersection of religion, government and politics. Tune in this weekend to Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio show and podcast State of Belief to hear from the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina about the coalition of faith leaders standing in opposition the anti-gay marriage amendment on Tuesday’s ballot. Also, [...]
Bishop Backlash
There’s been a flurry of American Catholic bishops who, perhaps emboldened by the media attention to their claims of violations of religious liberty, seem to be getting ever-louder in injecting themselves into partisan politics. But, at the same time, it seems a growing number of Catholics in the pews who think the bishops are going [...]
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