September 13, 2025 – Libraries and Religious Freedom, with ALA President Sam Helmick

 This week on The State of Belief – a conversation with Sam Helmick, the newly inaugurated president of the American Library Association. Sam and host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush mark National Library Card Sign-up Month by discussing the importance of libraries in advocating for intellectual freedom and access to information, noting that libraries are […]

September 6, 2025 – The Power of Community: Keya Chatterjee and the Vision for a Free DC

 The Trump administration’s federal takeover of the nation’s capital is having a profound impact on Washington, DC’s 700,000 residents – and on our very democracy. That’s according to this week’s guest on The State of Belief, Keya Chatterjee. Keya’s the co-founder and executive director of Free DC, a civic campaign defending Washington, DC’s home rule […]

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Every week, Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush hosts lively, funny and poignant conversations with inspiring religious and civic leaders; as well as artists and activists from across the country. Listeners get a potent mix of spiritual wisdom, political strategy, and hopeful commentary from national and local leaders who are rising up to meet this urgent moment in America. With the tagline: “Where Religion and Democracy Meet,” State of Belief is a celebration of our nation’s diversities and an invitation to join together to, in the words of the great James Baldwin,”‘achieve our country.”

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