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Pop quiz: what global vacation destination penalizes atheism with… The death penalty? Which American states prohibit non-believers from holding public office… in 2012? You’ll get the [...]

The Rev. Cody Sanders writes widely on the ongoing tragedy of LGBTQ suicide in this country. Most recently, he authored a compelling article in Religion Dispatches Magazine, “Queer Suicide [...]

Dr. Mark Van Stone is a preeminent expert on ancient Maya art and civilization. So who better to ask if there’s even a point to Christmas Shopping this year? Hear the definitive answer [...]

What is it about the idea of impending doom that seems to hold an attraction for so many of us? Whether it’s the Maya prediction, the “fiscal cliff” rhetoric, Y2k, or some other [...]

The “fiscal cliff” stalemate in Washington is 100% manmade. And although it makes for some exciting debate for the political talking heads, the threat of severe austerity measures as [...]

All Saints Church and MPAC Long at the forefront of interfaith cooperation, All Saints Church in Pasadena, California, invited the Muslim Public Affairs Council to hold its annual convention at [...]

A “Fortnight of Facts” There’s been a lot of attention paid to the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom” – the bishops’ two-week campaign culminating on July 4th to raise the [...]

In 2005, a 16-year-old boy in Memphis, Tennessee came out to his parents as gay. When he learned his parents were going to send him to a conservative Christian “reparative therapy” center called [...]

The mainstream media often seem to feel a need to fit religion into a nice, neat box, inevitably reinforcing a simple, black-and-white image of faith in this country that for many people of faith [...]

Dr. Diana Butler Bass joins Welton on State of Belief this week to talk about her new book “Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of A New Spiritual Awakening.” [...]