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Here’s what’s coming up on the next State of Belief Radio: A new pope! Nope, Pope Francis wasn’t available, but we’ll hear from Religion News Service Editor-in-Chief Kevin Eckstrom [...]

The headline-making exploits of the Westboro Baptist Church are fairly well known. The hate group has made a name for itself protesting at funerals and other public events. Less known is what [...]

A new report from the Center for Inquiry and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation makes the case that religious fundamentalism in the US military has gotten worse over the last decade. The [...]

The Texas Freedom Network Education fund has released a new report taking a closer look at biblical religious teaching in the state’s public schools. The author of the report, Dr. Mark Chancey [...]

This weekend, tune in to State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio show and podcast, to hear about a new report on the prevalence of conservative Christian indoctrination in our [...]

This weekend, tune in to State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance’s weekly radio show and podcast, to hear some hopeful news about efforts to protect the poor and hungry from the effects of the [...]

Several national polls last year identified a fast-growing subgroup among Americans, the religiously-unaffiliated, often using the shorthand moniker: the “nones.” However, author Christian Piatt [...]

For those of us paying attention, and old enough to recognize McCarthyism when we hear it, the sensationalist tone Texas Senator Ted Cruz has brought to Washington during his first few months in [...]

The seemingly-endless series of manufactured budget crises continues to dominate public debate here in Washington, but polls show Americans becoming increasingly disinterested in these crises. [...]