January 2022

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— What will the Supreme Court look like after Stephen Breyer’s retirement? (2:36)

— Jerry Falwell, Jr. opened up about his past in a lengthy Vanity Fair profile. (13:45)

— A Mississippi mayor wants to withhold funds from the local library unless they purge all LGBTQ+ books. (30:47)

— A Georgia mayor’s first act was to ask everyone to join him in communion. (37:06)

— An AME Zion bishop was arrested for defrauding churches of millions of dollars. (41:14)

— A pro-choice activist took an abortion pill on live TV to show how simple it is. (47:54)

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— OnlySky, a new network for atheist bloggers, podcasters, and commentators, is now up and running! (0:49)

— Pastor Mike Todd smeared spit on his brother’s face to make a point about Jesus. (8:52)

— A proposed law in Iowa would require teachers to stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance… or else! (18:37)

— A taxpayer-funded Christian adoption agency in TN just got sued for refusing to work with Jews. (28:35)

— The Supreme Court accepted the case of a high school football coach who wanted to perform prayers on the field after games. (37:03)

— Justice Neil Gorsuch referred to “so-called” church/state separation in an oral argument. Yikes. (50:55)

— California is suing a Christian “health care” ministry for defrauding customers. (59:35)

— Answers in Genesis wants to use the horrific Tuskegee Syphilis Study as a way to prove evolution is false. (1:05:37)

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— It’s never good when a state’s attorney general says we need a God-based justice system. (3:12)

— A pastor who’s been repeatedly accused of spiritual harassment insists that he is eradicating spiritually abusive priests from his church-planting group. (11:50)

— Why is Dave Silverman selling someone else’s creation? (27:22)

— A Creationist group screwed up the science in its new logo. (43:26)

— Dave Ramsey said raising rent doesn’t make a landlord a “bad Christian.” (45:10)

— An elderly woman may have left her entire $2 million estate to a predator priest. (55:16)

— Preacher Sean Feucht claims his book contract was canceled due to his “political views.” (1:01:15)

— A woman says the Bible-believing former GOP House Speaker in Michigan sexually assaulted her when she was 15. (1:05:09)

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— Pope Francis says having pets instead of kids is selfish. (2:00)

— A proposed law in Oklahoma would put the KJV and fundamentalist preachers in certain classrooms. (7:00)

— Marriage is not about being happy, says one very misogynistic pastor. (22:15)

— A 14-year-old girl was impregnated by her youth pastor. She’s finally telling her side of the story. (30:42)

— The phrase “unreligious cruelty” makes no sense, so why is a Washington Post columnist using it? (41:22)

— What would you do in this moral dilemma? (46:27)

— Should we feel bad about old churches dying out? (55:48)