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Bishop Gene recently returned from a 10-day trip to El Salvador, one of the countries that thousands of refugees – many of them children – have fled for the United States. As we hear our [...]

Finally, Greg will take a break from hosting the show to be interviewed by Ray Kirstein, State of Belief’s producer, about the events around the world that are dominating headlines here in the [...]

Despite many blows to its legitimacy, the snake-oil industry of “ex-gay” therapy has continued to promote itself as a valid way to – in its own words – “walk out of the homosexual lifestyle.” To [...]

It probably won’t come as a shock to most of our listeners, but a new survey by the Pew Research Center, How Americans Feel About Religious Groups, confirms that religious groups tend to be rated [...]

We’ve spent a lot of time on State of Belief making the case that full marriage equality is essential for religious freedom in the United States. However, there is another religious freedom issue [...]

Next we’ll welcome back to the show Glenn Katon, legal director for Muslim Advocates, to discuss the latest developments in their case against the New York Police Department. Since allegations [...]

Last week a number of prominent LGBT rights organizations withdrew their support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act because of the current version’s over-broad religious exemption. First [...]

In the month since the President announced that he would sign an executive order barring discrimination by federal contractors on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, a debate has [...]

With the Islamic observance of Ramadan continuing through July 28th, we were drawn to Welton’s 2012 interview with Texas Methodist pastor, the Rev. Dr. Wes MacGruder. Pastor MacGruder was facing [...]

With the President’s upcoming executive order requiring federal contractors to observe nondiscrimination policies towards LBGT workers, we’ll revisit the conversation between Welton and Professor [...]