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Separation of Church and State Was a Baptist Idea. What Happened?

What Stuck: Reading Pope Francis a Year Later

What If the Most Powerful American in the World Isn't Who You Think?

He Survived Conversion Therapy. The Supreme Court Just Made it Legal Again

The Myth of Sudden Change: How the First Woman Archbishop Got There

Are You a Starseed? The Search for Meaning, Rewritten

Texas Created a Program to Fund Religious Schools. So Why Are Muslim Schools Missing?

Baptizing the Battlefield: Pete Hegseth's Holy War at the Pentagon

From Purity Rings to Shooting Your Dog: How Christian Womanhood Went MAGA

What's Next for American Jews and Israel? A Half-Century of Consensus Weakens.

When Trauma Becomes Identity: What Young Jews Are Learning After October 7

The Rev. William Barber II: Fighting Autocrats Starts at the Grassroots

Abortions Rose After Dobbs—And the March for Life Knows It

Quiet Quitting Church: When the Numbers Reveal Everything and Explain Nothing

They Shot the Pastor Anyway: When Religious Authority Met Federal Force

What Happened? Top Religion News Stories of 2025 — And What To Watch in 2026 (From The State of Belief)

A Dictator Was Seized. The Pope Spoke. Everyone Else Paused.

Faith, Fame, and the Feed: How Influencers Shape What We Believe

How One Abuse Story Changed a Reporter

The Conservative Christian Momfluencer Machine

From Fringe to Front Page: Why Nick Fuentes Is at the Top of Your Feed. Again.

From Pink to Waterproof: The Weird Economics of U.S. Bible Sales

Beyond Identity Politics: The Mamdani Method in New York

Chainsaws, Catechism, and Courage: How One Parish Grew Through Crisis

Televangelists to Deepfakes: Who Defines the Sacred in the Age of AI? + John Fugelsang

Cease-Fire Isn’t Peace: Inside the Vatican’s Quiet Work on Gaza

Willow Creek’s Midlife Reckoning: How a Seeker Church Became the Megachurch Blueprint

Baptizing the Battlefield: Pete Hegseth’s Holy War at the Pentagon

Faith, Labor, and a DOJ Reversal: Inside the BAPS Temple Case

Pulpit Politics: Why the Johnson Amendment Still Sparks Political Drama

What Charlie Kirk’s Life and Death Reveal About Religion and Politics

Casper ter Kuile on Small Politics, Big Meaning, and the Power of Tea

Stop Trying to Fix Everything: Simran Jeet Singh on Spiritual Sanity

Can Small Acts of Faith Change a Fractured Country?

What the Civil Rights Movement Still Has to Teach Us - Rachel Harding on Spirit & Strategy

The Pope Who Blessed the Margins (And Upset the Middle)

Loose Reins, Tight Factions: the Southern Baptist Convention

Sledgehammer Reform: USAID on the Chopping Block

Faith, Politics, and Power: J.D. Vance’s Tightrope Act

The Mercy Pulpit & The Sermon Heard Around the World

President Trump's Crusader

The Bishop's Gambit

Crosses at the Border

A Keffiyeh Conundrum: the Politics of Baby Jesus

Elon Musk: “Prophet-in-Chief”?

Calling Out Lies, Singing the Truth

Alpha Jesus and the Bro-ing of the American Church

Why Muslim Voters Feel Betrayed

Rejecting the ‘God of Trump’

When Religious Power Serves Political Force

Exposing Soft Christian Nationalism

When Public Dollars Pay for Religious Education

The Hindu Vote: Flipping the Script

Women’s Work: a Catholic Conundrum

Imagining a Land of Belonging

Dividing Lines: Life on the Border

Church Land: Let Go & Grow

Land of the Violent

Sowing Seeds, Reaping Freedom

Stealing Land in the Name of God

The Bible is a Book about Land

Political Paradox and Prerequisites of the American Dream: Dr. Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi

Between Worlds: Dr. Albert Hernández on The American Dream from his Cuban-American Perspective

Culture Shock and Consuming a Dream: Nga Vương-Sandoval on fleeing Việt Nam as a Child

BONUS Episode: LIVE! Why Ban Drag?

Freedom from Violence: Representative Iman Jodeh’s Palestinian-American family story of seeking refuge and finding a life of public leadership

Broken Glass & Salty Tears: Rabbi Joe Black and his family story of fleeing persecution and finding purpose

Ownership, Belonging & Dreaming America: Ben Sanders

Losing Everything at Indian Boarding School: Bessie Smith (Dzabahe)

The Stories We Hold: Amanda Henderson

Dreaming America: Season 4 Trailer

Amanda, Lex, and Denise Soler Cox: The Struggle to Belong, & How a Night at a Bar in Miami Changed Everything!

Amanda, Lex, & Dr. Philip Butler talk Transhumanism, Artificial Intelligence & Religion

Amanda, Lex, & Ian Silverii: Religion's In Our Politics: It's Inescapable

Change is Disruptive - Choose Mindfulness

Amanda, Lex & Dr. Miguel De La Torre: Screw With the Structures & Change Your God

Amanda & Lex on Season 3: "Change: The Only Lasting Truth"

Amanda & Lex Wrap Up Season 2

How Do We Talk Politics with Our Families?

Finding Freedom in Your Religious Tradition - The Choice is Yours!

Why Does the Government Care if We Have Babies Anyway?

Rabbi Joe Black: Jewish Thoughts on Abortion, the Gift of Music, and the Messy Parts of Living

Episode 11: Eric Smith: What the Bible Actually Says about Abortion

Lex & Amanda talk Abortion, Cults, & Religious Trauma

Ann Marie Benitez; Reproductive Justice after the fall of Roe

Rachel Laser: Separation of Church and State: Good for Religion, Good for Democracy

Answering Those Lingering Questions on Christian Nationalism

On Changing Hearts, Minds, and Laws

Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis On Countering White Christian Nationalism: Step 1: Let White Jesus, Go!

Rob Schenck on the behind-the-scenes agreements that led to the end of Roe

Lex & Amanda talk Gender, Sexuality & Marriage

Rep. Sam Park, Leading with a Broken Heart

Brandan Robertson, Religion, Politics & LGBTQ Youth

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