Extended Interviews

State of the Louisiana Classroom This week, Governor Bobby Jindal signed a sweeping school voucher bill that shifts massive tax dollars to private schools – many of which are under construction, [...]

Wisconsin Wrap-up Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker managed to overcome a recall challenge this past week. Many talking heads have painted this as a warning for President Obama come the November [...]

How does a scientist’s religious and ethnic background inform his approach to science? A new book argues that the answer is: “a lot more than we think!” Dr. Steve Gimbel, Chair of the Philosophy [...]

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 [...]

Despite the best efforts of his political opponents to drive a wedge between President Barack Obama and his base over his support of same-sex marriage, the NAACP announced its support for [...]

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.” [...]

It wasn’t a public policy change. But it was an announcement that dominated much of the public discourse for the second half of the week: President Barack Obama’s long-expected [...]

It wasn’t a public policy change. But it was an announcement that dominated much of the public discourse for the second half of the week: President Barack Obama’s long-expected [...]

The 2010 Religion Census Every 10 years, the Association of Religion Data Archives publishes the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies’ 2010 US Religions Census: Congregations [...]