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LGBTQI persons in the US have seen a great expansion of rights, particularly around marriage equality. At the same time, other parts of the globe have seen significant setbacks. The Rev. Pat [...]

Welton also offers his own commentary on racial justice in the United States, drawing on his early childhood years in West Tennessee and his experiences in the decades since. He shares that what [...]

Last week, as the nation was rocked by protests and an increasingly polarized reaction to those protests, Welton spoke with Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Jr., senior pastor emeritus at the Riverside [...]

Welton is also joined on this week’s show by Bishop Stacy Sauls, the COO of the Episcopal Church in America. Bishop Sauls is leading the effort on racial reconciliation within the Church. They [...]

Following a Staten Island grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer responsible for the death of Eric Garner, New Yorkers took to the streets to protest. Rabbi Jill Jacobs was on the [...]

The American news cycle has moved past Ebola, but lack of access to proper sanitation and medical care to affected nations allows the disease to keep spreading. Even without such outbreaks, [...]

Pope Francis travelled to Turkey during Thanksgiving weekend for prayer and interreligious dialogue. His agenda included leading a joint Mass with Eastern Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I at [...]

Following the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and countless other unarmed black men and boys by white police, few still try to claim we live in a post-racial United States. As [...]

Seven years after he officiated his son’s same-sex marriage — and after enduring a trial, appeals and a defrocking before his ultimate reinstatement — Rev. Frank Schaefer shares his emotional and [...]

The pilgrims traveled to what is now the United States in search of religious freedom. In the absence of a state church, Americans have developed a civil religion that blends, rather than [...]