Traditionally marking Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a celebration of the groundbreaking civil rights leader’s life and legacy, often involves looking at how far this country has come in the last [...]
We’ll also get a Word from Welton on the Oval Office Address the president delivered on Tuesday. Hear the full January 12, 2019 State of Belief Radio program here.
The 2017 Women’s March made an incredible statement the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Five million people around the world came out in protest of the values espoused by Trump [...]
Even as public attention to white evangelicals’ continued support of the president grows, so too does attention to a growing number of former evangelicals leaving the church and turning their [...]
President Trump this week used the time-honored tradition of an Oval Office address in an attempt to secure public support for border wall funding. The speech was a major departure from past [...]
As 2019 gets underway, we must also take stock of our advocacy work and priorities for the year. Religious freedom is under threat from multiple sides, with some potential issues slated to make [...]
For many years, our tradition has been to end each year with a look back at the top news stories of that year with the editor-in-chief of the Religion News Service (RNS). This year we also look [...]
Like many Christian pastors across the country, the Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, gave a Christmas Eve sermon about Jesus’s plight as a refugee searching [...]
Hanukkah begins tomorrow night! The Jewish Festival of Lights is a time of hope and perseverance. With a rise in anti-Semitism and just plain nastiness, Hanukkah is a welcome reprieve to reflect [...]
As the world continues to watch the horrifying treatment of refugees, asylum-seekers and immigrants at our southern border, the administration shows no signs of backing down. While the [...]