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This week, State of Belief welcomes Bruce Bastian, a former Mormon, respected philanthropist and openly gay human rights activist. Bruce talks about his relationship with the LDS church and the [...]

Finally, Welton talks with Benny Witkovsky, a young member of the Interfaith Alliance team, who was at the White House on Monday when the president’s executive order was announced. Benny talks [...]

Next, the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson, the retired Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire and friend of State of Belief, sits down with Welton to discuss the Obama Administration’s decision on Monday to [...]

State of Belief is excited to welcome back Patricia Miller, an author who has written extensively about the intersection of politics, sex and religion for Religion Dispatches and many other [...]

Last week, Welton sat down with Nate Phelps – son of the deceased Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps – to talk about his decision to leave his family and his highly controversial church. [...]

Welton asks, “What does God have against Eric Cantor?” In the wake of Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s shocking defeat in his Republican primary this week, the victorious David Brat was quick to [...]

Peter Montgomery, a Senior Fellow at People for the American Way and associate editor at Religion Dispatches, returns to the program to speak to Welton about the radically anti-gay platform [...]

State of Belief is excited to welcome back the founding CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, Dr. Robert P. Jones. In the past couple of weeks, PRRI has released two major studies of [...]

Despite the transition following the passing of its leader, Fred Phelps, Sr., the Westboro Baptist Church has continued to demonstrate that its propensity for offensive and hateful protests at [...]

Finally, Welton has some thoughts to share about the controversy behind President Obama’s decision to secure the release of Bowe Berghdal, America’s last POW in Afghanistan. Right-wing leaders, [...]