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We’ve spoken before about the frightening trend of bigoted religious leaders in the U.S. exporting their hate around the world, with dangerous consequences for vulnerable LGBTQ people. Sometimes [...]

Strange Gods may be the title of Susan Jacoby’s fascinating book on a secular history of religious conversion, but could there be any more fitting phrase to describe the politics of today. Susan [...]

Ever since Jerry Falwell launched the alleged “Moral Majority,” it’s hard not to be skeptical toward activists who throw around words like “values,” “morality” and “faithfulness”. But one group [...]

As the temperatures in Monroe climb into the 90s, our host Rev. Welton Gaddy can hardly be blamed for taking a little trip up to New York City (where he landed in the first heat wave of the [...]

In recent years, we’ve seen a number of progressive, faith-orientated movements on the upswing. The Moral Mondays movement, led by Rev. William Barber in North Carolina, and Sister Simone [...]

What happened in Vegas between supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders sure didn’t stay there. Judging by news headlines, tensions are flaring as the two camps prepare to face off in the [...]

There’s something particularly ugly about a powerful group ganging up on a vulnerable minority. It’s true on the playground, and it’s true in politics. It’s even worse when those with power use [...]

Transgender Americans have become a favorite target of far-right extremists who wield religion as a weapon. This week on State of Belief, Interfaith Alliance’s radio show and podcast, our host [...]

For those of us who get a certain sense of schadenfreude watching the politicians and the mainstream media try to understand religious voters, nothing has been more entertaining than the [...]

Call it a rise of fundamentalism, call it a collapse of the center, but something is definitely going on in the religious and political world these days. Professor Peter Enns is out with a new [...]