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According to Steve Schmidt, a top-ranking McCain campaign official, Sarah Palin believed that she had some help in securing the spot just below John McCain on the 2008 Republican ticket. The [...]

Brit Hume responds to the controversy over  his Tiger Wood’s comments in a recent interview on the Christian Broadcast Network.  Hume expresses no remorse for his statement about abandoning [...]

Welton appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann to talk about Brit Hume’s proselytizing on Fox News.  Watch the segment below.

The picture on the television screen and the audio of reporter Brit Hume’s words struck me as contradictory. Just below the image of the reporter’s face, the insignia “Fox [...]

From the New York Times Religion Journal In Montana, a rabbi is an unusual sight. So when a Hasidic one walked into the State Capitol last December, with his long beard, black hat and long black [...]

Pastor Rick Warren has found himself in hot water over anti-homosexual legislation in Uganda, and the critique is totally warranted.  Warren has close ties to the country where he works primarily [...]

The Catholic hierarchy has been busy lately mixing religion and politics.  The Catholic church has been very vocal in its opposition to gay marriage in the District of Columbia.  And there was no [...]

In another interfaith first, President Obama welcomed Sikhs to the White House for the first ever White House celebration of the birth anniversary of the Guru Nanak, the first guru of Sikhism. [...]

WNYC and PRI’s program, The Takeaway welcomed past State of Belief guests, Jay Bakker and Joel Hunter as part of the show’s Faith in America series.  Bakker discusses his gay – [...]

Last week, a very insightful listener wrote to ask that we address the relationship between the Stupak Amendment and an organization known as the Family.  Many members of Congress are part of [...]