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In early 1933, German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer delivered a radio address to the nation warning Germany of the rise of the Nazi party, leading to his eventual execution at the [...]

Interfaith Alliance Board member and early champion of State of Belief radio Alex D. Forger will join host Rev. Welton Gaddy to discuss Alex’s life and career as a successful businessman and [...]

In times of oppression, corruption and injustice, how should we choose to navigate politics? This question has remained constant among political activists, leaders and advocates for centuries. It [...]

This Monday, we remember the legendary civil rights leader, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King is revered as an activist whose faith motivated him to fight for dignity and justice [...]

National Religious Freedom Day was this past Thursday, a celebration of the 234th anniversary of the adoption of Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the eventual basis for [...]

This week, State of Belief is celebrating 14 years of broadcasting at the intersection of religion, government and politics. As we mark this anniversary, we want to say a sincere “thank you” for [...]

Welton will sit down once again with Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, National Organizer and Spokesperson of Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, to talk about growth that the movement has seen and inroads [...]

Religious Freedom Day is January 16th, and since its establishment the observance has been a target for the political religious right in its tireless efforts to redefine “religious freedom.” [...]

The Rt. Rev. John Bryson Chane was the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C. when he was called to interfaith cooperation with counterparts in Iran – a country with which our government had [...]

For those of us who lived through the US government’s “justification” of the Iraq War in the aftermath of 9/11, this week felt like deja vu, filled with simplistic black-and-white [...]