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With all eyes on the drama unfolding around the Trump administration, radical efforts to roll back equal rights for LGBT people are advancing in Texas. This week on State of Belief, Interfaith [...]

Finally, our nation’s less-than-diplomatic President has set off on his first foreign trip. With stops in Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican, what could possibly go wrong? We’ll get [...]

The Chautauqua Institution, founded in 1874 in upstate New York, began with a focus on – and continues to offer – religion-themed programming. We were thrilled to learn this week that retired [...]

Host Rev. Welton Gaddy will be joined by Michael Signer, mayor of Charlottesville, VA. Home to the University of Virginia and just over 100 miles from the nation’s capital, [...]

Host Rev. Welton Gaddy will be joined by Alexandra Carroll, Director of Communications at the Catholics Mobilizing Network, which is working to amplify the church’s renewed efforts to end [...]

Finally, even as Americans seem more at odds with one another than ever, there are efforts underway to bring the nation together. We’ll close the show by interviewing the founder of the One [...]

Host Rev. Welton Gaddy will be joined by People For the American Way Senior Fellow Peter Montgomery, an expert chronicler of the Religious Right. Conservative evangelicals overwhelmingly voted [...]

On Thursday, President Trump marked the National Day of Prayer with a controversial new executive order intended to advance the political Christian Right’s vision of religious freedom. This [...]

Here at State of Belief we’ve spoken primarily with people distressed by the direction the country headed in 2016 – and into this year. This week, Welton will broaden the conversation with [...]

Intolerant. Bigoted. Even hateful. For many Americans, these words describe Christians who label themselves “evangelical.” Many evangelical Christians see themselves in a very [...]