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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:

At 10:00 pm on September 21st (check your local listings), PBS will air “Not in Our Town,” a documentary that tells the story of how the people of Patchogue, NY have worked together to combat [...]

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 [...]

The Fox News Facebook page became a forum for hate after the news source interviewed Blair Scott of American Atheists on July 28th. The organization is filing a lawsuit protesting the inclusion [...]

The much-anticipated day of prayer headlined by Governor Rick Perry’, “The Response,” took place this past Saturday, August 6th. Leading up to the event, many groups including Interfaith Alliance [...]

Dahlia Lithwick over at Slate has written a fantastic, must-read, I-was-nodding-my-head-and-saying-“yes!”-to-just-about-every-sentence- piece about a recent legislative prayer case in North [...]

Yesterday, a group of clergy members engaged in an act of civil disobedience (organized by former Congressman Bob Edgar, President of Common Cause) and were arrested in the Capitol Rotunda after [...]

With politicians and the media often discussing (and sometimes completely distorting) religion, it seems sometimes as if everyone knows everything there is to know about every religion! [...]

At a town hall meeting at the University of Maryland this morning, President Obama fielded a question about an issue (in fact, a campaign promise) yet-to-be-resolved—government-funded [...]