Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke Greiff cover the latest news, politics, and pop culture with a focus on atheism and religion. This is the official podcast for FriendlyAtheist.com.

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March 26, 2026 84 mins

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

— The Duggars are back in the news for crimes involving children. (0:45)

— Ché Ahn says God told him to run for governor. California says he can't be on the ballot. (13:...

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

— Federal judge blocks Arkansas law forcing Ten Commandments displays in public schools. (0:37)

— South Australia political party dumps Christian candidate over anti-gay...

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

— GOP congressman says Muslims "don’t belong in American society” while his party shrugs. (1:00)

— The myth of evangelical persecution gets a new platform in the Washing...

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March 5, 2026 81 mins

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

— Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee is selling Trump's Iran conflict as God's plan. (0:43)

— Before you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for ...

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

— Christian Nationalism has captured the Republican Party. (2:28)

— A Tennessee bill would force Bible lessons and prayer in public schools. (16:23)

— Ten Commandments po...

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

— Southern Baptists are whitewashing the bigoted legacy of Wiley Drake. (2:27)

— Ex-pastor at Greg Laurie's megachurch: I'm too broke to fight all these sexual abuse law...

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February 12, 2026 73 mins

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

— The "He Gets Us" campaign has a PR problem no Super Bowl ad can solve. (1:23)

— Oklahoma finally scraps Bible-heavy, conspiracy-laced Social Studies standards. (22:24)

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

— The "Greater Than" campaign claims loving gay parents are the real threat to kids. (2:18)

— Republicans are panicking because James Talarico wants people to act more l...

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

— The scandal rocking Bethel Church and the world of charismatic Christians. (1:07)

— Arizona GOP pushes bill to allow school board prayers, despite obvious constitution...

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

— The anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church was a justified rebuke of the pastor's cruelty. (2:49)

— Texas courthouse unveils illegal Ten Commandments monument, invitin...

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

— Court upholds $400,000 fine against lawyer who warned Catholic school about predator on staff. (1:15)

— Scott Adams’ deathbed conversion to Christianity shouldn’t be t...

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January 8, 2026 86 mins

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

— A single Chick-fil-A store congratulated a gay couple, and conservatives lost their damn minds. (2:35)

— People who visited Ark Encounter may have been exposed to meas...

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December 31, 2025 173 mins

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Jessica and I spoke about the worst stories from the past year, with increasingly more wine. 

— January (1:14)

— February (22:08) 

— March (32:34)

— April (40:30) 

— May (50:31)

— June (1:00:58) 

— July (1:11:57)

— August (1:21:21) 

— September ...

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

— Univ. of Oklahoma punishes instructor for failing Christian student who didn't do the assignment. (0:55)

— Pete Hegseth is waging a pointless and damaging war on milit...

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

— Oklahoma's Supreme Court overturns Ryan Walters' Bible-heavy Social Studies standards. (0:41)

— Former Christian college administrator indicted for lying to cops in se...

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December 11, 2025 99 mins

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

— A Christian mom who tried to ban LGBTQ books just got arrested for kidnapping her own daughter. (0:20)

— Will the Maine Supreme Court allow a mother to keep harming he...

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

— She turned in a Bible sermon instead of an essay and failed. Now conservatives say she’s the victim. (3:06)

— A Minnesota church told kids to hug and forgive their abu...

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Marissa Franks Burt is a novelist, editor, teacher, and cohost of the At Home with the Lectionary and In the Church Library podcasts. She lives in Washington state with her husband, six children, and heaps of books. She has a masters in theological studies from...

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

— Hemant will be speaking in St. Louis this weekend for the Ethical Society of St. Louis. Events are free to the public. COME!

— Supreme Court declines case involving lo...

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

— A TikToker is exposing churches that refuse to help a hungry baby. (2:32)

— Axios tried to shame Christian U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico—and ended up exposing i...

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