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This weekend on State of Belief, Welton reflects on the program’s “Prophetic Vision for a New Year” series with a panel of prominent guests, observing how the fight for social justice brings [...]

This weekend on State of Belief: a look at religion in the modern day workplace, a Rabbi’s Yom Kippur prayers for Syria, the war on science education in American classrooms, and Michelle [...]

Posted to HuffingtonPost.com Last week’s Republican National Convention provided an interesting window into the current role of religion in the Republican Party. From what I observed last [...]

There was intense energy, song, pride, and joy in the crowd outside The United Methodist Building in the Nation’s Capital Monday as I and many other supporters awaited the homecoming of the Nuns [...]

By sheer coincidence the congressional hearing I attended last week on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA, Senate Bill 811) prominently featured the State of Minnesota. I hold Minnesota [...]

I have just returned from an academic trip to Turkey and Jordan. As travel often does, the trip provided me with an added perspective on American life and culture, simply through adding a [...]

In Des Moines, Iowa the Muslim community recently discovered that a man professing interest in converting to Islam, Arvinder Singh,a Sikh, who attend Mosques services for seven years, was in [...]

What an exciting show this weekend! Here is the Lawrence O’Donnell segment Welton will be talking about on this week’s State of Belief Radio:

Recently, our friends at Right Wing Watch brought to light some startling (if not entirely surprising) comments made by Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (who among other [...]

A battle has been won (for now) in Douglas County, Colorado; but the war is certainly not over. I’m talking about the fight over Douglas County’s school voucher program. We, here at the [...]