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Pastor Rick Warren has found himself in hot water over anti-homosexual legislation in Uganda, and the critique is totally warranted.  Warren has close ties to the country where he works primarily [...]

The Catholic hierarchy has been busy lately mixing religion and politics.  The Catholic church has been very vocal in its opposition to gay marriage in the District of Columbia.  And there was no [...]

In another interfaith first, President Obama welcomed Sikhs to the White House for the first ever White House celebration of the birth anniversary of the Guru Nanak, the first guru of Sikhism. [...]

WNYC and PRI’s program, The Takeaway welcomed past State of Belief guests, Jay Bakker and Joel Hunter as part of the show’s Faith in America series.  Bakker discusses his gay – [...]

Last week, a very insightful listener wrote to ask that we address the relationship between the Stupak Amendment and an organization known as the Family.  Many members of Congress are part of [...]

A group of conservative Christian ministers gathered in protest in front of the Justice Department yesterday in a truly misguided attempt to provoke arrests under the recently passed hate crimes [...]

Check out Welton on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann discussing the Catholic Church and health care reform. Plus, don’t miss Welton’s latest piece in the Washington [...]

Pro-choice advocate Frances Kissling has an insightful op-ed in today’s New York Times in which she discusses how the growing anti-choice wing of the Democrat party helped usher through [...]

The recent passage of an anti-choice amendment as part of the House health care bill has many asking whether Catholic bishops have been appointed an honorary seat in Congress.  The amendment [...]

The website Beliefnet reports on how conservative Christian voters are celebrating the results of Tuesday’s election.  The big win in the eyes of the Religious Right is of course the defeat [...]