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The Similarities of 17th-Century Salem and the Modern World One historian and author went to direct archival sources to write a personality-driven book about the Salem witch trials. Marilynne K. [...]

Hollywood, the Bible, and Bishop Gene Robinson State of Belief is excited to welcome back the Right Rev. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop installed in the Episcopal Church, a leader in [...]

Getting Congress – and Conservatives – to Stop LGBTQ Bullying in Schools This past week, students across the country participated in the National Day of Silence, an annual event in which they [...]

This weekend on State of Belief, hear about faith-based efforts to stop the bullying of LGBTQ students in schools – and the opposition that claims to stand for religious freedom. Also, settle [...]

This was a big week at the Supreme Court and I was thrilled to have the privilege of a front row seat to history. After camping out all night , I was first in line to get into the court’s chamber [...]

What an incredible moment it was yesterday when we learned that after years of delay, the Boy Scouts finally decided to allow openly gay youth to participate. This has been a long time coming and [...]

On Wednesday night down at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Rep. Paul Ryan officially became Republican Vice-Presidential Nominee Ryan as he accepted the party’s nomination. Pundits, [...]

It isn’t often that I find myself saying “amen” to something that former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister Mike Huckabee says…but that actually happened last night as I watched his address [...]

Dahlia Lithwick over at Slate has written a fantastic, must-read, I-was-nodding-my-head-and-saying-“yes!”-to-just-about-every-sentence- piece about a recent legislative prayer case in North [...]

Yesterday, a group of clergy members engaged in an act of civil disobedience (organized by former Congressman Bob Edgar, President of Common Cause) and were arrested in the Capitol Rotunda after [...]