Happy Independence Day Weekend! On the next State of Belief Radio, we’ll look at How to Heal Our Divides: A Practical Guide, a collection of essays by leading voices from across and beyond the denominational spectrum. Editor Brian Allain will be with us.

Also, even as the Delta variant of Covid-19 looms on the horizon, evangelical Christians have emerged as a major obstacle to vaccination rates. I’ll talk with medical ethicist Monty Self, who also argues that today’s research techniques are both misunderstood – and moral.