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On this weekend’s State of Belief, with Welton Gaddy: John Buehrens and Rebecca Ann Parker join us in studio to discuss theology behind progressive politics, the importance of worship to [...]

Last week Georgetown University held its annual Global Leadership Forum. Entitled Evangelicals and Muslims: Perspectives on Mission and Partnership, this year’s forum brought together scholars, [...]

Key Question:  Whether she will lay her political beliefs aside when she is deciding cases and decide those cases strictly based upon facts and the law of the case – Senator Jon Kyl As the [...]

Louisiana’s legislatures recently proposed making Sunday June 20th a statewide day of prayer to ask for God’s help in stopping the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. My take is that while this may [...]

On this weekend’s State of Belief, with Welton Gaddy, we revisit two recent conversations that are equally pertinent today:  Max Blumenthal, author of “Republican Gomorrah,” [...]

Recently, the Center for American Progress held a fantastic event entitled The Global Fight for LGBT Rights, about trends and developments around the world and particularly in Uganda—many of [...]

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies A People Before I begin, I want to recognize that the video posted above is about media portrayals of Arabs in American Hollywood films, not Muslims. I [...]

I recently read an article about British prisoners who converted to Islam in order to receive protection from powerful Muslim gangs within the prison system. This reminded me of a panel that I [...]

On this weekend’s State of Belief, with Welton Gaddy: … Shaul Magid, professor of modern Judaism at Indiana University and contributor to Religion Dispatches, parses the Helen Thomas [...]

For our May 29-30 Memorial Day broadcast, we did a fascinating segment about Jewish veterans of World War II, and Jason Steinhauer of the Veterans History Project was kind enough to join us in [...]