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We’ll also get a Word from Welton on the Oval Office Address the president delivered on Tuesday. Hear the full January 12, 2019 State of Belief Radio program here.

The 2017 Women’s March made an incredible statement the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Five million people around the world came out in protest of the values espoused by Trump on the [...]

Even as public attention to white evangelicals’ continued support of the president grows, so too does attention to a growing number of former evangelicals leaving the church and turning their backs on [...]

President Trump this week used the time-honored tradition of an Oval Office address in an attempt to secure public support for border wall funding. The speech was a major departure from past addresses [...]

The government shutdown is dragging on as hundreds of thousands of federal employees are past the first payday of the year without pay. Meanwhile, talks to reopen the government have stalled as the [...]

As 2019 gets underway, we must also take stock of our advocacy work and priorities for the year. Religious freedom is under threat from multiple sides, with some potential issues slated to make it all [...]

For many years, our tradition has been to end each year with a look back at the top news stories of that year with the editor-in-chief of the Religion News Service (RNS). This year we also look ahead [...]

Like many Christian pastors across the country, the Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, gave a Christmas Eve sermon about Jesus’s plight as a refugee searching for [...]

We’re only a week into the new year, and as the government shutdown continues with no end in sight, so far 2019 feels a lot like 2018. Only now we’ve entered the so-called “invisible primary” for the [...]

As 2018 comes to a close, two themes that brightened what has been a  dark year for many are the advances women made in electoral politics and other leadership roles, and the growing influence of [...]