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The town of Fort Oglethorpe Georgia is getting a lot of attention not necessarily for its high school football team but for what’s happening at their games. A minor controversy has been [...]

Journalist Jeff Sharlet continues to get (well deserved) attention for his book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. The book is an expo of the Family, or the [...]

Kirk Cameron also known as Mike Seaver from the TV sitcom Growing Pains is back behind the camera, well “back” if you don’t count his appearances in the apocalyptic Left Behind [...]

Here at State of Belief, we are continually interested in the intersection of religion and technology. This week’s show features an interview with the creator of the first on-line [...]

Not the children, or the whales, the arch religious conservatives over at the Liberty Counsel want to save liberal politicians.  And how do they plan on doing this? Through prayer, of course.  A [...]

We here at State of Belief were very sad to learn of the death of Reverend Forrest Church, a senior minister at All Souls Unitarian Church in New York City. Forrest passed away last Thursday from [...]

Welton is featured in this week’s discussion over at the Washington Post blog On Faith. The site’s editors ask panelists to weigh in on whether religious charities that recieve [...]

Speaking at the Value Voter summit this past weekend, Michael Schwartz, the chief of staff for Senator Tom Coburn, managed to combine two of the Religious Right’s favorite talking points, [...]

On the heels of the Value Voter Summit, researcher Chip Berlet shares some helpful insight into the mindset of Conservative Christian Evangelicals in a post on the group blog Talk2Action. Berlet [...]

Thanks to the website Towleroad.com for calling our attention to this story about Arizona Governor Jan Brewer who last week moved to eliminate state benefits for domestic partners, reversing  a [...]