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Ten years ago, Thaler Pekar and Isaac-Davy Aronson worked on the launch of State of Belief. What were those early days like? How has the public landscape changed? This reunion will be a unique [...]

When Interfaith Alliance was born in 1994, the Christian Coalition was uniting religious and political conservatives. Prominent leaders allied themselves with the movement and skillfully used the [...]

Welton comments on importance of civility in our public discourse, the damage we see caused by incivility, and why it’s been a top goal of State of Belief for 10 years now.

There may not be a war on Christmas or persecution of Christians in America, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t angry about their perception that there is. Jay Michaelson – a rabbi, [...]

In too much of the country the only faith voices – if not the only voices of any kind – that you’ll hear on the radio are from the most conservative among us. State of Belief itself was born out [...]

It’s a phrase we’re all too familiar with: after every tragedy, politicians and public figures take to social media and offer their “thoughts and prayers” for the victims. In the immediate [...]

Rev. Michael McBride, the leader of the PICO National Network’s Live Free campaign, has been a frequent guest on the show and an inspiration to many of our listeners. Over the years we’ve watched [...]

Our celebration of the ten-year anniversary of State of Belief continues with an interview from 2009, when author and activist Samir Selmanovic spoke with us about his book, It’s Really All About [...]

We’ll start this week’s commemoration of ten years of State of Belief by sharing a 2008 interview with the late Rev. Forrest Church, a writer, speaker, and theologian. Rev. Church served as a [...]

Religion has received a lot of attention in the last year and, in our annual reflection on the year in religion news, we’ll discuss both the prominent stories and the lesser-known, but still [...]