Many of the strongest agents of faithful change work behind the scenes, rarely speaking directly to those who benefit from their work. Macky Alston, activist, documentarian and former Vice [...]
The relentless efforts of the US political religious right to export its culture wars to vulnerable nations around the world are well documented – but things went even farther recently in [...]
Also on this week’s show, Welton will sit down with Dr. Chrissy Stroop, co-editor of the newly-published Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church, to discuss her work writing in the [...]
Senator Sherrod Brown is a beloved elected official from Ohio, and has been since 2007. As hectic as things are in Congress today, Senator Brown has made the time to write a book, Desk 88: Eight [...]
As the Trump administration continues to crack down on migrants seeking a better life for themselves and their families, faith-based resettlement agencies such as HIAS continue to fight for the [...]
While the religious right continues to manipulate the true meaning of religious freedom for political gain, other faith leaders resolve to use faith to drive their work creating positive and [...]
Those who stay up to date on religion and politics in the news are sure to have seen headlines claiming that recent legislation in Ohio — the Ohio Student Religious Liberties Act — [...]
We devote the rest of this week’s best-of State of Belief program to a critically important panel discussion Welton hosted in 2006. While we regularly cover the political religious right takeover [...]
When Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, joined Rev. Welton Gaddy, host of State of Belief, in May of 2006, she had just published her second book. It was [...]
And finally, returning to the show this week is Rabbi Jack Moline, president of Interfaith Alliance. Jack will have an update on what the Alliance is doing to protect faith and freedom for all, [...]