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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 [...]

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 [...]

There’s a give and take between our nation’s laws and our communities’ religious beliefs in the long struggle for LGBT equality. Over the last several years many religious denominations have been [...]

Welton will wrap up the show with a few thoughts about some ways he feels this year’s election cycle is different from all of the previous ones – and the price that we are all in danger of paying [...]

More than perhaps ever before our campaign season has devolved into a rambunctious back and forth of shouting, insults, and even violence. But some have a different idea, an idea too radical not [...]

“When Islamophobia Turns Violent.” Just let that phrase sink in for a moment. This is the 2016 election; this is the world we’re living in. The new report from Georgetown University’s Bridge [...]

It’s a trick as old as democracy, sneaking an almost entirely unrelated provision into a massive, important piece of legislation. Sometimes it helps us, sometimes it doesn’t – and this year it [...]

For some, playing God means trying to exert a power you do not have… for Morgan Freeman it’s just another day at the office. After twice playing God in major motion pictures, Morgan Freeman has [...]

From climate change to LGBT equality, it appears harder and harder to have a fact-based conversation about concrete issues in American politics. Maybe too much information decreases our ability [...]