Extended Interviews

The recent reports of the death of progressive religion have been greatly exaggerated, or so wrote Dr. Jill K. Gill in a thought-provoking response on Religion Dispatches to New York Times [...]

Author Dr. Nora Rose Moosnic is a visiting scholar in the department of sociology at the University of Kentucky, a regular State of Belief listener and recently published a new book: Arab and [...]

What’s next for the Nuns on the Bus The leading “Nun on the Bus,” Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of NETWORK, a Catholic social justice advocacy group, joins Welton this week to talk [...]

Rep. Bachmann’s Witch Hunt This past week, Minnesota Tea Party Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and four other Members of Congress escalated her witch hunt, claiming the Muslim Brotherhood has [...]

<strong>A Roundup of Recent Religion News</strong> The headlines have been replete with religion-related stories – everything from a new Gallup poll showing that Americans’ [...]

LGBT in the PCUSA A year ago the Presbyterian Church, USA General Assembly voted to approve the ordination of LGBT persons. At that time Rev. Paul Mowry, one of the first openly-gay ministers [...]

Despite this being what is usually a quiet time in electoral politics, the Presidential campaigns have been sizzling – and that’s not just because of the record heat across the country. Frequent [...]

A Word from Welton Religious liberty continues to make headlines. What’s the real threat? What’s strategic hyperbole? And what are the possible long-term consequences of this whole debate? Rev. [...]

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 [...]

Our Divided Political Heart In the shoutfest that is cable news E. J. Dionne is a frequent and always thoughtful guest. He joins us this week to talk about his new book Our Divided Political [...]