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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker managed to overcome a recall challenge this past week. Many talking heads have painted this as a warning for President Obama come the November election. But are [...]

Tune in this weekend to Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio show and podcast State of Belief to learn what the failure to recall Wisconsin’s Scott Walker will mean nationally (if [...]

This weekend on State of Belief Radio – Washington Post writer and commentator E. J. Dionne. His new book is Our Divided Political Heart: the Battle for the American Idea in an Age of [...]

Ever since the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced its crackdown on the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, a group that brings together the leadership of 80% of US women [...]

In a really interesting conversation, Welton and Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion author Dr. Steve Gimbel, Chair of the Psychology Department at [...]

How does a scientist’s religious and ethnic background inform his approach to science? A new book argues that the answer is: “a lot more than we think!” Dr. Steve Gimbel, Chair of the Philosophy [...]

In 2005, a 16-year-old boy in Memphis, Tennessee came out to his parents as gay. When he learned his parents were going to send him to a conservative Christian “reparative therapy” center called [...]

Tom Drake-Brockman became an Atheist while still attending a Christian school, but then spent a lifetime exploring faith and examining scripture and religious teachings. His quest for Truth led [...]

Few things are as easy to manipulate into hate as is ignorance. And there is abundant evidence of efforts to build anti-Muslim hatred in this country. To help counter the ignorance too many [...]

In recent years, some on the far right are rewriting American history to redefine us as a conservative Christian nation. Led by David Barton, a number of revisionist historians and commentators [...]