Latest Ffrf Podcast Episodes
"The theater is my religion.”
Freethought Radio - June 27, 2024 18:16 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe announce state/church victories and complaints in Louisiana, Idaho, North Carolina, Texas and Mississippi. FFRF Senior Counsel Sam Grover tells us about the lawsuit FFRF has filed this week with a coalition challenging Louisiana's new law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in all p...
Japan's Holocaust
Freethought Radio - June 20, 2024 08:17 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe announce plans to sue the state of Louisiana over their new law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms. We hear Congressman Jared Huffman and comedian John Oliver describe the Christian nationalist dangers of Project 2025. Then historian Bryan Mark Rigg ...
Black Disbelief
Freethought Radio - June 13, 2024 16:25 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe celebrate the 96th birthday of the Broadway composer Charles Strouse, a lifelong atheist, by hearing the protest song he wrote for the musical "Golden Boy," "No More," sung by Sammy Davis Jr. We also reprise part of our 2009 interview with Strouse. Then we speak with Professor Anthony B. Pinn...
The Comstock Act
Freethought Radio - June 06, 2024 19:31 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsA judge ruled that our lawsuit challenging an Oklahoma religious charter school can continue. FFRF Director of Communications Amitabh Pal tells us about the national election results in India, which have weakened the threat of Hindu nationalism. Then we speak with novelist Amy Sohn about her boo...
Dear Oliver
Freethought Radio - May 30, 2024 17:37 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsA theocrat and a secularist duke it out in Louisiana. We ask whether Justice Samuel Alito should recuse himself. We report state/church complaints in Minnesota, California, Tennessee and Virginia. FFRF Legal Fellow Hirsh Joshi tells us how his letter to a Missouri school district successfully st...
Culture Wars
Freethought Radio - May 30, 2024 17:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsWe call on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to resign, after revelations that political and Christian nationalist flags have flown outside his homes. Deputy Legal Director Liz Cavell prognosticates over SCOTUS's upcoming mifepristone decision and Social Works Fellow Kat Grant discusses the rel...
Where did religion come from?
Freethought Radio - May 16, 2024 17:23 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsToday's guest, philosophy Professor Patrick J. Hurley, discusses his insightful new book, Religion, Power and Illusion: A Genealogy of Religious Belief. And FFRF Legal Fellow Hirsh Joshi talks about how an FFRF complaint caused a Minnesota jail to repaint — and hopefully repent — over a massive ...
Ex-vangelicals
Freethought Radio - May 09, 2024 17:54 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsAfter reporting on state/church separation in Alabama, Florida and Arizona, and on blasphemy, book banning and abortion, we hear the optimistic song "Workin' on a World" by Iris DeMent. Then, we speak with NPR Correspondent Sarah McCammon about her new book The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and...
Future of the World's Largest Secular Democracy
Freethought Radio - May 02, 2024 19:06 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsGuest host Amitabh Pal, FFRF Communications Director, begins by talking about the various ways the Freedom From Religion Foundation is making waves: at Capitol Hill receptions, during major conferences and in the media. Then, the show has an interview with Indian activist Shabnam Hashmi discussi...
Rise of the Nones
Freethought Radio - April 25, 2024 17:35 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratingsFFRF attorney Sam Grover joins us to describe our newest amicus ("friend of the court") brief over an Arizona school board member who refuses to stop pushing her religion at board meetings. We announce FFRF's "Godless Gospel" musical show to be performed in Manhattan June 24 and 25 (and hear a s...
Earth Day
Freethought Radio - April 19, 2024 01:18 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 ratings"Christian nationalists are truly in la-la land," says Annie Laurie Gaylor. We cover state/church news in Tennessee, Arizona, Maine, Wisconsin and Louisiana. To honor Earth Day (April 22), after hearing satiric songwriter Roy Zimmerman perform his climate-change song "We Are The Worst," well-kno...
Reagan and the Media
Freethought Radio - April 11, 2024 18:24 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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 ★★★★★ - 527 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...
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