Extended Interviews

On April 23, 2014, Auburn Theological Seminary held it’s 18th Lives of Commitment Breakfast in New York City. After the breakfast, State of Belief Radio host and Interfaith Alliance [...]

“We believe that clergypersons should not have to choose between offering pastoral care and religious services to their parishioners and breaking the law – which is what North Carolina is [...]

As the US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the Hobby Lobby case, opening the door to finding constitutional protections for corporations’ “religious consciences,” Dr. Jay [...]

With the death of longtime Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps, Sr. on March 20th, is the congregation – long notorious for offensively picketing funerals with colorful placards of [...]

“I felt compelled to begin to challenge my Church’s teachings, and also the social and cultural attitudes toward Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people, because it was my call to [...]

“Beyond remembering – and beyond giving thanks – even more, I hope that on the King holiday you will see even a small act of justice that you can support – or actually [...]

“I want people to leave feeling that when a chid is hungry, their stomach will growl. When a child is shot to death, that they grieve. When a kid can’t get a job when they graduate from [...]

  They’re looking for the same sense of community, they’re looking for the same cultural elements that they were raised to appreciate, but they’re looking for them without [...]

Headlines have said that we were defying the Church – that is not true. We were offering the liturgy and the ceremony and the welcome of the Church to fully include a gay couple into the [...]