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The horror of a religious ideology being associated with an attack of this scale – or any violence, for that matter – cannot be overstated. It seems that each month, we mourn acts of violence [...]

More than 250 lives ended in a violent coordinated massacre at churches and hotels across the Southeast Asian country of Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. This week on State of Belief, Interfaith [...]

There are all kinds of activism in times of war. Some work for peace. Others offer help for the wounded. Others still devote themselves to nurturing recovery in war’s aftermath. A very special [...]

One of the greatest dangers facing our civilization right now is the incredible polarization of people along ideological lines, and the refusal even to consider ideas that might be stray from  [...]

Remarkably productive, relentlessly inspiring, Brandan Robertson is a young evangelical LGBTQ activist, author, and the pastor of Missiongathering Christian Church in San Diego, California. This [...]

From all of us at State of Belief, Happy Easter and Chag Sameach Pesach to all who are celebrating! From the push in many states right now to end so-called gay conversion therapy, to, on the flip [...]

From Muslim bans to transgender bans to threats to women’s rights, there’s been a lot for Interfaith Alliance and its partners to resist. Now there’s a growing body of legislation that we can [...]

If you’ve found yourself overwhelmed by the news cycle and the state of affairs in our world, pastor, blogger and powerful voice in the resistance, John Pavlovitz has a new book out that may [...]

Not unlike the historical “Southern Strategy” in which Republicans sought to drive a wedge between voters of different races in the 1960s to win elections, many on the right have led intentional [...]

The president launched his campaign with unambiguous scare-mongering rhetoric, promising to ban immigration from countries with majority Muslim populations. While his supporters and legal [...]