Extended Interviews

On State of Belief, we’ve talked a lot about the unprecedented dismantling of Louisiana’s public education system through Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s astoundingly broad school voucher [...]

This week, comments made by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a fundraiser have received lots of attention. Some commentators pounced, accusing Romney of dismissing nearly half the [...]

“An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.” Despite a surge in bias attacks against the Sikh community in the United States since 9/11, the Justice Department still refuses to [...]

There was a lot of rhetoric at and around both political conventions that was steeped in the language of faith. So what about the large number of Americans for whom religious faith is not a [...]

Duke University Associate Professor of Theological Ethics Luke Bretherton makes the argument that since some of the most important issues to individual Americans involve religion and moral [...]

While it may seem to many of us that religious language has permeated much of the presidential campaign, Religion News Service Editor-in-Chief Kevin Eckstrom says he thinks there’s less of [...]

Remember when conservative religious leaders were piling on Mitt Romney, arguing that his eligibility for the nomination was hampered by his religion? Well, as the other contenders dropped out [...]

David Barton, neither historian nor legal scholar, has nonetheless engaged many in a crusade to redefine the very history of our nation. His organization, Wallbuilders, ironically works to tear [...]

The Rev. Dr. Wesley Magruder is a Methodist Pastor in Texas; he’s a prolific blogger; and this year, he joined his Muslim friends in observing the month-long Ramadan Fast. There are lessons [...]

The Interim Dean of Washington’s National Cathedral says that interviews with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, conducted by the Cathedral’s publication Cathedral Age, reveal two [...]