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So reads the startling headline of Jeff Sharlet’s recent piece in The New York Times Magazine. Many of us have been concerned by the rise of Donald Trump and where his candidacy seems to draw its [...]

With the startling spread of anti-LGBT, so-called religious freedom legislation (just this week Tennessee came close to passing one such bill, halted only by the Governor’s veto) one voice has [...]

Last week Pope Francis released his much anticipated Amoris Laetita, a document outlining the Church’s changing doctrines on love, sex and marriage. This week Welton will sit down with Rt. Rev. [...]

Every week we strive to bring you top-notch reporting from the intersection of religion, government and politics, but sometimes the stars align and we get a show – like this week’s – with three [...]

Zach Kopplin is an old friend of the show and has just participated in the Freedom for all Faiths forum. Zack is particularly concerned over the inclusion of religious teachings in the classroom. [...]

During this election cycle, a lot of attention has focused on the evangelical vote – specifically in the South. Dr. Pearson Cross, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University [...]

North Carolina and Mississippi are two of the most recent states to have passed anti-gay legislation in the guise of protecting religious freedom. We look at whether these laws are driven by [...]

This week, our host Rev. Welton Gaddy participated in a series of panels about religious freedom sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, and so we’re focusing our show on [...]

Here’s what’s coming up this weekend on State of Belief Radio – Welton Gaddy is in Lafayette, Louisiana, with some of the participants and attendees at Freedom for All Faiths, a panel [...]

The South Carolina state legislature is currently considering a bill holding any religious group that sponsors refugees legally liable for any misdeed by any one of those refugees. Interfaith [...]