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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 across [...]

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 the [...]

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 they [...]

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.” Welton [...]

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 [...]

The level of mistrust between some faith communities in this country is not always accidental. We’ve seen years of marginalization of American Muslims, and the tactic has been more effective on [...]

Later on this week’s show, Welton will be joined once again by Sarah Posner, Reporting Fellow at Type Investigations, whose article The Army of Prayer Warriors Fighting Trump’s Impeachment appeared [...]

Among the growing number of faith communities being threatened financially for being a sanctuary church is Missiongathering Christian Church in San Diego, California, where Senior Pastor Brandan [...]