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On the next State of Belief Radio,

A sharp critique of progressive Christian activism in the age of Trump from a longtime progressive Christian leader. We’ll start the New Year with the Rev. Peter Laarman.

Also, Young Evangelicals for Climate Action. Is extreme weather bringing religion and science together at last? You’ll meet Kyle Meyaard-Schaap.

Plus, who didn’t get to vote in 2016 - and who won’t get to in 2018. I’ll talk with investigative journalist Greg Palast.

And it wasn’t that long ago that the word “homosexual” first appeared in an English translation of the Bible. Researcher Kathy Baldock will explain.

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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. Trump/Bannon, Congress’s to-do for 2018, Russia investigation/Mueller, etc

Guest: Sam Berger, Senior Policy Advisor at the Center for American Progress; former Senior Health Policy Advisor for President Obama's Domestic Policy Council

Tweets: @SamBerger_DC

2. Criminal Justice Reform and Jeff Sessions’ DOJ Reversal of Obama-Era Federal Marijuana Policy

Guest: Kara Gotsch, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Sentencing Project

Tweets: @KGotsch

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.