Freethought Radio
Kanaal Besonderhede
Freethought Radio
A weekly show, broadcast live from Madison, Wis., on 92.1 FM, Saturdays 11 a.m. to 12 noon. Hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents, Freedom From Religion Foundation. Slightly irreverent views, news, music and interviews.
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1029 episodes
Separate Church and Hate
Actor, comedian and broadcaster John Fugelsang describes his new book, Separation of Church and Hate. FFRF's Legal Director Patrick Elliott sums up ou...
The Good Trump
Donald Trump's niece, Mary L. Trump, explains why her uncle is the real Grinch.
The Solstice Is the Reason
Celebrating with music and readings, we explain why the Winter Solstice is the true "Reason for the Season."
The Solstice Is the Reason
Celebrating with music and readings, we explain why the Winter Solstice is the true "Reason for the Season."
Nigerian human rights activist tells it like it is
Dr. Leo Igwe, who is a noted human rights activist in Nigeria, talks about the religious violence in Nigeria and explains why Trump's saber-rattling i...
Escape from Scientology
Pamela Nickel Williams, author of the memoir Clearly Lies Are True, tells us what it was like growing up in Scientology, and how she escaped that abus...
Let's All Give Thanks
We are thankful for the many speakers and performers at FFRF's 48th annual convention. We listen to 20 clips from that entertaining and enlightening e...
Fighting for Freedom
Herb Silverman tells us how he fought the state of South Carolina to allow atheists to run for public office, and Nancy Northup, president of the Cent...
Defending Democracy
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie tells us how we can defend democracy against the threat of Christian nationalism.
"So Help Me FFRF"
After talking about warning labels on bibles and reporting on state/church news, we hear Brandi Carlile's new song "Church and State." FFRF Senior Lit...
The Great Abdication
Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky, author of How Democracies Die, tells us about "The Great Abdication: America's Descent into Authoritarianism."
Evangelical Zionists
After reporting state/church victories and complaints in California, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Tennessee, Washington, Texas and Arkansas, we speak with...
Guns and Poetry
Journalist William J. Kole tells us about his book, "In Guns We Trust: The Unholy Trinity of White Evangelicals, Politics, and Firearms." Then, we spe...
Fighting Authoritarianism
U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., explains how California's Proposition 50 is trying to fight religious-right authoritarianism. Legal Fellow Kyle Stein...
Unforgiven
After reporting on state/church news, we hear the song "Friendly Atheist T-shirt" by the Freethought Band of Humanists of Minnesota. Then, we speak wi...
Creationism on Trial
After covering state/church news, we report on the "war-mongering" Christian nationalist rhetoric at Charlie Kirk's memorial. Then, we hear distinguis...
Whitewashing History Highlights the Importance of Church-State Separation
We celebrate a court victory in Arkansas, where a federal court issued a second preliminary injunction blocking a state law requiring the posting of t...
"Western Christian values"
Christian nationalists in government are ramping up the rhetoric. We report how FFRF is protesting the White House "America Prays" initiative and a bi...
The "Trial of the Century"
We report on state/church victories and challenges in Arkansas, South Carolina, Texas, Morocco, Minnesota and Florida. Then, we hear Pulitzer Prize-wi...
Star-Spangled Jesus
We are not retreating from our lawsuit challenging the Ten Commandments in Texas public schools, in spite of the Texas attorney general's warning that...
Medicine River
After we cover state/church news around the country, FFRF Senior Litigation Counsel Sam Grover recounts FFRF's recent victory stopping the Ten Command...
Confronting Christian nationalism
FFRF Legal Director Patrick Elliott tells us some breaking good news about a Christian nationalist legal attack against FFRF by Oklahoma state Superin...
The Trial of the Century
We announce a great victory from the Arkansas courts blocking the state from displaying the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. After r...
Death with Dignity
Incursions of Christian nationalism at the federal and state level are increasing, and we are fighting back. We report a quick legal victory removing...
Can religion cure loneliness?
This week on Freethought Radio, guest hosts Ryan Jayne and Leo Costello talk about a Christian state representative in Texas who's speaking out agains...
America's Best Idea
We report on state/church violations in the White House, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense and Walter Reed National Military Medi...
Religious attack on LGBTQ+
We criticize Texas Governor Gregg Abbott for using the flood devastation as an opportunity to preach his personal religious views. We point out that i...
SMART Recovery
FFRF announces another Ten Commandments lawsuit, this one in Texas. After covering state/church news at the federal, state and local levels, we talk w...
Debating Religion
We discuss the Supreme Court decision allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood and we decry many attempts by Christian nationalists to force relig...
World Humanism
We celebrate Juneteenth, recognizing the end of slavery, and World Humanism Day, which occurs at the Summer Solstice as a secular alternative to relig...
No Kings
We announce that FFRF is a sponsor of the "No Kings Day of Action" protesting the erosion of democratic and constitutional safeguards against a monarc...
American Freethought
We announce new FFRF litigation this week. In honor of Pride Month, we celebrate the birth anniversary on June 9 (1891) of the gay/atheist songwriter...
Religious Hit List
We announce two new lawsuits this week that FFRF is taking with a coalition of state/church groups. The first challenges the placement of statues of C...
Wild Faith
This week we honor the life and work of our friend, the Broadway composer Charles Strouse—who died last week at age 96—who wrote "Annie" and "Bye Bye...
Strongly Stated
The new head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, has insulted "practical atheists," but it is really his own church that needs to apologize for bad...
Day of Reason
We have some good state/church news to report out of Oklahoma and Arizona. Then, in response to Trump's remarks at the May 1 "National Day of Prayer,"...
The Flame of Reason
Mayday! Mayday! We listen to some of the oral arguments in a pivotal Supreme Court case heard Wednesday about whether a private Catholic charter schoo...
Religion and Trumpian Populism
We first do a round-up of the news nationally and globally, including the death of Pope Francis and the Trump administration's setting up of a dubious...
Freethought in Nigeria
This week, we report that Christian nationalism is on full display at all levels of government. After covering national state/church news, FFRF Senior...
"Witches" exonerated
FFRF's IT Director Scott Knickelbine gives us the inside scoop on the case by Catholic Charities in Wisconsin that is before the U.S. Supreme Court se...