GOD GIRL ON AIR AMERICA TONITE!

Cathleen will be a guest on Air America’s “State of Belief” program today, Sunday, May 14 (5-6 p.m. EST) with host Welton Gaddy.

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Here’s a little bit more about Welton and his Air America show, and a sneak preview of what we talked about:

This Sunday’s State of Belief Radio
Bush’s Approval Rating Down, America’s Spirituality is Up

Washington, May 11 – New polling data has debunked all previous assumptions about the “Moral Values Voter.” On this Sunday’s “State of Belief,” The Interfaith Alliance Foundation’s show on Air America Radio, the Rev. Welton Gaddy explores the real values that drive voters to the polls — values exhibited through actions, not empty rhetoric. He talks with a religion reporter who has asked some of the world’s most famous and powerful people about their faith.

Several new polls show President Bush’s approval rating at an all-time low and the latest shows stark changes in America’s perception of which party best represents their values. Welton is joined by Professor John Green, Director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron, to talk about what these numbers really mean.

“Many Democratic leaders have started to talk in the language of values,” Green says. “This redefinition of moral values has given the Democrats a chance to really connect with some voters they have not been able to connect with.”

Cathleen Falsani, religion reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times and author of The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People, tells Welton about talking to such celebrities as Hugh Hefner and Bono about their faith – and gives Welton a journalist’s perspective on the current state of religion in America.

“More people now are willing to say they’re not religious but they’re spiritual,” Falsani says. “There are folks who say they are Christian or read the Bible who say it to end a conversation, not start one.”

State of Belief explores the intersection of religion with politics, culture, media, and activism. Through interviews with newsmakers and celebrities, reports from the field, and his own commentary, Welton shows how religion and radical freedom are best friends and how the religious right is wrong – wrong for America and bad for religion.