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This weekend on State of Belief, we give thanks for a year of wonderful interviews with a look back at some highlights from 2009! Host Welton Gaddy speaks with actress Judith Light on her role in [...]

The Catholic hierarchy has been busy lately mixing religion and politics.  The Catholic church has been very vocal in its opposition to gay marriage in the District of Columbia.  And there was no [...]

In another interfaith first, President Obama welcomed Sikhs to the White House for the first ever White House celebration of the birth anniversary of the Guru Nanak, the first guru of Sikhism. [...]

WNYC and PRI’s program, The Takeaway welcomed past State of Belief guests, Jay Bakker and Joel Hunter as part of the show’s Faith in America series.  Bakker discusses his gay – [...]

This weekend on State of Belief, Ali Eteraz, author of the new memoir, Children of Dust, tells Welton about his childhood in Pakistan and his current hopes for reform within Islam. Plus, Scott [...]

Last week, a very insightful listener wrote to ask that we address the relationship between the Stupak Amendment and an organization known as the Family.  Many members of Congress are part of [...]

A group of conservative Christian ministers gathered in protest in front of the Justice Department yesterday in a truly misguided attempt to provoke arrests under the recently passed hate crimes [...]

This weekend on State of Belief, what role did the Catholic Church play in the passage of a controversial amendment to the House health care bill? Host Welton Gaddy finds out when he speaks with [...]

Check out Welton on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann discussing the Catholic Church and health care reform. Plus, don’t miss Welton’s latest piece in the Washington [...]

Pro-choice advocate Frances Kissling has an insightful op-ed in today’s New York Times in which she discusses how the growing anti-choice wing of the Democrat party helped usher through [...]