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Not the children, or the whales, the arch religious conservatives over at the Liberty Counsel want to save liberal politicians.  And how do they plan on doing this? Through prayer, of course.  A [...]

We here at State of Belief were very sad to learn of the death of Reverend Forrest Church, a senior minister at All Souls Unitarian Church in New York City. Forrest passed away last Thursday from [...]

Welton is featured in this week’s discussion over at the Washington Post blog On Faith. The site’s editors ask panelists to weigh in on whether religious charities that recieve [...]

Speaking at the Value Voter summit this past weekend, Michael Schwartz, the chief of staff for Senator Tom Coburn, managed to combine two of the Religious Right’s favorite talking points, [...]

On the heels of the Value Voter Summit, researcher Chip Berlet shares some helpful insight into the mindset of Conservative Christian Evangelicals in a post on the group blog Talk2Action. Berlet [...]

Thanks to the website Towleroad.com for calling our attention to this story about Arizona Governor Jan Brewer who last week moved to eliminate state benefits for domestic partners, reversing  a [...]

Earlier this summer, State of Belief spoke with Michael Rosenzweig from the National Museum of American Jewish History about the museum’s exhibit Only in America, a permanent exhibit about [...]

Certain school districts around the country may want to keep mention of Darwin out of the classroom, but now a film about the British naturalist might not even make it to American multiplexes?  [...]

In a regular segment on State of Belief which we call our “Intersection Awards,” we hand out lights at the intersection of religion and politics and culture…a green light for [...]

This weekend on State of Belief, we will mark eight years since September 11th with a  look at how one faith group fared in the aftermath of our country’s national tragedy. A discussion on Muslim [...]