Latest Ffrf Podcast Episodes
Reagan and the Media
Freethought Radio - April 11, 2024 18:24 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsWe talk about Charlie Chaplin, the “Lucy” fossil, the eclipse, and state/church issues in Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, Arizona, Utah, Louisiana and Uganda. Then, we speak with journalism Professor Diane Winston about her new book Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Rea...
Woman, Church and State
Freethought Radio - April 04, 2024 18:22 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsWe talk about the eclipse, an intersex atheist, and a freethinking songwriter. We report on state/church complaints and victories. Then, we speak with Danielle Nagle, director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Museum in upper New York state dedicated to the 19th-century feminist, abolitionist, author o...
Bodies Under Siege
Freethought Radio - March 28, 2024 18:09 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsAbortion is in the news this week. FFRF attorneys analyze oral arguments in the mifepristone (abortion pill) case before the Supreme Court that was taken by religious-right groups. Then, we speak with U.K. journalist Siân Norris about her book Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Repr...
FFRF Action
Freethought Radio - March 21, 2024 19:19 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsFFRF Senior Counsel Patrick Elliott tells us about FFRF's newest federal lawsuit challenging religious discrimination against the Satanic Temple's desire to host afterschool club meetings for children in Memphis, Tenn. Then, FFRF Director of Governmental Affairs Mark Dann and Senior Policy Couns...
A Secular Coalition
Freethought Radio - March 14, 2024 17:45 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsMany FFRF victories and legal complaints to talk about this week. Since today is "Pi Day," and π is irrational, we hear the irreverent Joe Hill song about the irrational belief of "pie in the sky" called "The Preacher and the Slave." Then we speak with Steven Emmert, Executive Director of the Se...
Atheist Public Official
Freethought Radio - March 07, 2024 19:28 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsAfter we report on state/church violations and victories in Illinois, California, Kentucky, Alabama, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, FFRF's Senior Policy Counsel Ryan Jayne tells us "everything you need to know about public school chaplain bills" that are being introduced in many states. Then, we speak ...
Flourishing Love
Freethought Radio - February 29, 2024 19:59 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratings“Welcome to the end of democracy,” said a Christian nationalist leader. This week, we parse many of such anti-democratic comments made by evangelical leaders. After hearing a Spanish-language version of the love song “It's Only Natural,” we talk with Enrico Gnaulati, author of the book Flourishi...
God or Country?
Freethought Radio - February 22, 2024 19:35 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsFFRF's Equal Justice Works Legal Fellow Kat Grant describes the amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief they wrote for FFRF in a case involving an Oregonian Christian who is challenging the law prohibiting her from discriminating against LGBTQ+ children in the adoption process. Then, we talk about th...
Prohibited Books
Freethought Radio - February 15, 2024 19:43 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsThis week we talk about Christian nationalism, leaving the Mormon Church, and religion in the classroom. After listening to part of our TV interview with Rep. Jared Huffman about the theocratic Speaker of the House, we talk with historian Robin Vose, author of The Index of Prohibited Books: Four...
State-Church Watchdogs
Freethought Radio - February 08, 2024 19:50 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsPrayer is the target of this week's show: the National Prayer Breakfast and school-board prayer. For Valentine's Day, we hear Susan Hofer sing Dan Barker's freethought love song, "It's Only Natural." Then, we speak with FFRF attorneys Sammi Lawrence and Chris Line about their watchdog letters of...
Tiny Titanic Acts
Freethought Radio - February 01, 2024 19:14 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsThis week, we call out governmental prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast and an egregious Christian nationalist invocation before the House of Representatives. Then we hear Kate Cohen, Washington Post contributing columnist and author of the book We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending t...
An Atheist Chaplain
Freethought Radio - January 25, 2024 18:55 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsFFRF Director of Communications Amit Pal describes how India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a Hindu temple on the site of a demolished mosque in a political effort to establish Hindu nationalism in that country. Then we speak with Devin Moss, the humanist chaplain who was called in t...
Anti-Caste Activist
Freethought Radio - January 18, 2024 19:17 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsMargaret Downey, president of the Thomas Paine Memorial Association, tells us about an exciting celebration of the birth of the “Forgotten Founder" Thomas Paine on his Jan. 29 birthday. Then, FFRF Director of Communications Amit Pal speaks with the actor, theater director and artist-in-residence...
Disobedient Women
Freethought Radio - January 11, 2024 19:40 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsAfter we hear from atheists Ron Reagan and Richard Dawkins, we listen to U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan greet attendees at FFRF's annual convention. Then we speak with author and essayist Sarah Stankorb about her new book, Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down ...
Atheists in Africa
Freethought Radio - January 04, 2024 20:37 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsEmily Olson, a very brave member of the Owosso, Michigan city council, tells us what happened when she challenged prayer at board meetings. Then we speak with the founder and president of Atheists in Kenya Harrison Mumia about that group's successful lawsuit challenging government discrimination...
Happy Secular New Year!
Freethought Radio - December 28, 2023 19:16 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsWe report on FFRF state/church victories and complaints and honor the 2023 "Secularist of the Year." After welcoming the New Year by hearing the sparkling performance of Godless Gospel, we speak with FFRF contributing writer Barbara Alvarez about the current state of abortion rights and the chal...
Reason's Greetings
Freethought Radio - December 21, 2023 18:56 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsOn this important date, we remind listeners of the real reason for the season: the Winter Solstice. After reporting on FFRF’s Solstice and “Bill of Rights nativity” scenes erected on public property to counter religious displays, we hear from the justice correspondent for The Nation magazine, El...
Secularism Is Growing
Freethought Radio - December 14, 2023 19:40 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsSecularism is growing around the world, and in the United States resistance to Christian nationalism is increasing. FFRF Legal Fellow Sammi Lawrence and FFRF Staff Attorney Chris Line join us to talk about some of the encouraging state/church legal victories (in court and out of court) that the ...
Making Activism Fun
Freethought Radio - December 07, 2023 16:29 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsFFRF Co-President Dan Barker discusses his recent debate at Oxford University on the topic "Is God a Delusion?" Then we have some fun hearing comedian, activist and political satirist Lizz Winstead, co-founder of "The Daily Show" and founder of Abortion Access Front, tell us how "to bring joy an...
They Won't Back Down
Freethought Radio - November 30, 2023 18:54 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsWe are asking Oklahoma's Superintendent of Education to resign for pushing religion in the schools and for verbally attacking FFRF. After honoring the life of freethinking TV correspondent Betty Rollin, we hear from two brave students — Marcus Stovall and Bear Bright — who are suing West Texas A...
Give thanks . . . where it is due.
Freethought Radio - November 22, 2023 19:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsOur Thanksgiving 2023 show features Godless Gospel performing “Let’s All Give Thanks,” interviews FFRF Counsel Sam Grover on FFRF’s new brief against religious censorship of drag shows, and features law Professor Mary Ziegler warning about the anti-abortion movement’s goal of fetal personhood.
Freedom From Fundamentalism
Freethought Radio - November 16, 2023 19:39 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsThis week we announce a Triumphant Trifecta of legal victories, ending high-school proselytizing in West Virginia, eliminating a religious test for public office in New Jersey, and stopping $1.5 million of South Carolina state funds from going to a religious school. Then we hear Jen Castle, the ...
How Fascism and Nazism Influenced Hindu Nationalism
Freethought Radio - November 09, 2023 20:33 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsGuest host FFRF Communications Director Amitabh Pal first recounts the state/church watchdog's achievements over the past few days — and the resulting media coverage. Then, he talks with University of Turin Professor Marzia Casolari about her groundbreaking book, “In the Shadow of the Swastika,”...
Students Win in West Virginia
Freethought Radio - November 02, 2023 19:33 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsFFRF Legal Director Rebecca Markert and FFRF Attorney Liz Cavell fill in as guest hosts this week. They discuss the alarming election of a Christian nationalism devotee to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. FFRF Senior Counsel Patrick Elliott joins to share an exciting update in one of...
For Heaven's Sake
Freethought Radio - October 26, 2023 16:02 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsFor a special themed show, FFRF co-presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker discuss the harm of belief in heaven and hell. Songs include "Heaven" by Rupert Brooke, "Pack Up Your Sins (and Go to the Devil in Hades)" by Irving Berlin, "Declaration of the Free" by Robert Ingersoll, "Preacher &...
We Won't Back Down
Freethought Radio - October 19, 2023 19:12 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsOklahoma's Superintendent of Public Education Ryan Walters is going after FFRF for complaining about that state's creation of a "public" religious charter school. FFRF Legal Fellow Sammi Lawrence tells us about the new amicus brief we filed in favor of Southwest Airlines enforcing their policy a...
What’s Wrong With the Ten Commandments?
Freethought Radio - October 12, 2023 18:29 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsFFRF Co-Presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor energetically demolish the Ten Commandments, both as moral guides and as an influence on U.S. law. After hearing the Philip Appleman poem "Noah," read by Phil and his wife Marjorie, we listen to Dan’s song "Lucifer's Lament," about how Satan ...
We Of Little Faith
Freethought Radio - October 06, 2023 12:42 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsFFRF Legal Fellow Sammi Lawrence describes FFRF’s newest lawsuit challenging a religious test for public office in New Jersey. FFRF’s Equal Justice Works Fellow Kat Grant tells us about the testimony she gave at the Wisconsin capitol in opposition to a religiously motivated bill that would prohi...
A Wall of Separation
Freethought Radio - September 28, 2023 19:43 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsFind out why Alabama Governor Kay Ivey and Texas Senator Ted Cruz are dissing the Freedom From Religion Foundation. After hearing Dan Barker's song "The Battle of Church and State," we talk with the distinguished scholar Steven K. Green about his book Separating Church and State: A History.
Christian White Supremacy
Freethought Radio - September 21, 2023 19:03 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratingsWe report four state-church victories this week: Minnesota, Oklahoma and two in California. We also report on the advocacy group FFRF Action Fund, working to keep religion out of politics and law. Then we speak with Robert P. Jones, president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute...
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