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On the next State of Belief Radio, we’ll be in New York City talking with Rabbi Irwin Kula, President of Clal. Amid a surge of anti-Semitic attacks and rhetoric, how are Jewish leaders helping calm the waters – and ensure safety for all?

Also, the Rev. Elder Pat Bumgardner. How has her ministry and activism on behalf of LGBTQ persons of faith been altered by the kinds of changes we’ve seen in our culture – and our government’s priorities?

And Rabbi Abby Jacobson, president of Interfaith Alliance of Oklahoma. We’ll get a briefing about the challenges to true religious freedom the organization is fighting against every day.

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On the #RADIO show this week, we cover the next best steps in gun violence prevention; a new study showing that 81% of women have experienced harassment and steps to end it with www.StopStreetHarassment.org; the campaign to get candidates to NOT take contributions from the NRA anymore (www.NoNRAmoney.org); and we close the show talking about the power of stories and of YOUR voice is covered next.

*Special guests include: Pastor Mike McBride, PICO Network, Live FREE Campaign, @pastormykmac; Holly Kearl, Stop Street Harassment, @HKearl; Nadine Smith, NoNRAmoney.org, Equality Florida, @1NadineSmith; and Donna Norton, MomsRising, @MomsRising.

In these crazy times, let's look to some unlikely sources for inspiration re creation and the good life. First, my 2008 conversation with MacArthur-winning biologist Stuart Kauffman on his book REINVENTING THE SACRED, offering "a new view of a fully natural God and of the sacred, based on a new, emerging scientific worldview." In the second half, my 2012 interview with Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan on his book, A MINDFUL NATION: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit. Ryan, a Rust Belt moderate hosts a mindfulness group for legislators of both parties.

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Ed Chung guest hosts today's show. He is the Vice President for Criminal Justice Reform at American Progress. Ed, and other staff at the Center for American Progress, will host the show each Thursday from 3-4pm ET until April 2nd when Mark Levine returns to the air following his work as a Virginia State Delegate.

Below are the topics that Ed discussed today, along with the guests he was joined by.

1. Protecting American institutions, like the DOJ (Department of Justice)

Guest: Julie Zebrak, Founder of 'Yes Moms Can,' formerly worked at DOJ and FinCEN

Tweets: @YesMomsCan

2. Companies choosing to dump, or keep, their relationships with the NRA

Guest: Kira Lerner, Political Reporter for ThinkProgress

Tweets: @kira_lerner

Ed's Twitter handle is @EdChungTweets. Before working at the Center for American Progress, he served as senior adviser on criminal justice, policing, and civil rights issues for the Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice.

In that capacity, Chung coordinated a national initiative for building trust between the justice system and the communities it serves, as well as the Obama administration’s violence reduction and second-chance efforts under the My Brother’s Keeper initiative.

Chung also held positions in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, including special counsel to the assistant attorney general and federal prosecutor with the Criminal Section, where he received the John Marshall Award for successfully prosecuting the first case under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.

The website for "The Center for American Progress" is www.AmericanProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @amprog.

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