Medicine River
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After we cover state/church news around the country, FFRF Senior Litigation Counsel Sam Grover recounts FFRF's recent victory stopping the Ten Commandments from being posted in Texas public schools. Then, journalist Mary Annette Pember, a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe, describes her new book Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:53.3 | Hello free thinkers Living for today. |
| 0:59.6 | Hello, Freethinkers and Freedom Lovers Everywhere. |
| 1:02.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and this is Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:04.1 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:09.2 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:17.6 | And this is the August 21st, 2025 episode of Freethought Radio, recording in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:22.5 | Freethought Hall is the national headquarters of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:29.7 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:34.5 | otherwise known as FFRF, working to educate the public about the views of those of us |
| 1:40.6 | who are personally free from religion and dedicated to buttressing the besieged |
| 1:45.8 | wall of separation between religion and government that the Christian nationalists are trying |
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| 1:57.7 | North America at fFRF.org. Dan, I flyed solo last week on the show. |
| 2:03.6 | You just got back from some free thought events in South America. How did that go? |
| 2:09.0 | So free thought is alive and well in South America. I spoke to the secular humanists of Peru in |
| 2:17.3 | Lima last week, a lively crowd, a large crowd. Then I went to the secular humanists of Peru in Lima last week, a lively crowd, a large crowd. |
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