Several recent events, including the shooting of an LGBT-inclusive pastor in Connecticut and the vandalizing of a progressive church in California, have raised questions on the consequences of [...]
When Josh Duggar, star of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting, admitted to molesting his younger sisters as a child, questions were raised about the role fundamentalist Christianity played in enabling his [...]
Executive Director of Interfaith Alliance, Rabbi Jack Moline, will join us to discuss declining levels of reported religiosity in the United States. He and Welton will focus on the distinction between [...]
Following the fatal outcome of her “Draw Mohammed” cartoon contest in Texas, Pamela Gellar announced that she’d be placing her newest anti-Islam cartoon on Washington, DC public transit. And while the [...]
This week on State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio show and podcast, host Rev. Welton Gaddy looks at some disturbing recent events confronting religious communities across America. He’ll [...]
In response to the latest crop of state-level “religious freedom” legislative initiatives (aka “mini-RFRA’s”) Interfaith Alliance launched its #EveryoneOnly campaign [...]
It is interesting how people are coming by and taking a selfie with themselves and that picture; coming in and telling us how much they like it. So I continue to think that being open-minded and [...]
Louisiana politics – it may be crazy, but it’s never dull! – John Denison Hours after Louisiana’s GOP-dominated legislature chose not to pass a “religious freedom” [...]
Finally Welton will share some thoughts about the upcoming Marriage Equality referendum in Ireland. Given the deeply religious history of that country, the strong role of the Catholic Church, and the [...]
As we discussed last week, the Pew Research Center recently released a survey that shows a dramatic decrease in America’s Christian population and a rise in the religiously unaffiliated – as well as [...]