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Jessica and her brother Kevin sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. (Hemant was out once again dealing with a newborn.)

- Kentuckians for Coal are boycotting the eclipse.

- A Melbourne archbishop says he'd rather go to jail than report child abuse told to him during confessional.

- Donald Trump's lawyer comparing George Washington to Robert E. Lee.

- A New Zealand pastor advocates killing gay couples. - Comedian Tim Allen doesn't understand evolution.

- There's a Chick-fil-A, which is closed on Sundays, in the Atlanta Falcons' new football stadium.

- The Juggalos are coming to D.C.

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Jessica and Anne Bouleanu sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. (Hemant was away this weekend.)

-- Are serial killers more likely to be atheists?

-- An evangelical advisor says Donald Trump has God's authority to take out Kim Jong-un.

-- A waitress was stiffed on her tip because of her rainbow equality tattoo.

-- Christians are more than twice as likely to blame a person's poverty on lack of effort.

-- A lawsuit alleges that a private Christian school told a rape victim to "turn the other cheek."

-- Confessions of a former "it" church pastor.

-- A school board president speaks out against California Healthy Youth act, which teaches kids about sexual orientation and identity.

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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religious and politics.

-- BYU-Idaho asked a student why she dropped out... so she told them the truth. (0:42)

-- The Mayor of Knoxville (TN) finally admitted a Bible sign hanging in the police department was illegal. (5:30)

-- The White House Bible Study is bad enough, but the instructor is worse. (13:42)

-- Donald Trump's Religious Right lawyer can't stop lying for him. (17:56)

-- An NFL player thinks dinosaurs aren't real and fossils are fake. (23:23)

-- The Activist Mommy has a lot of advice on how to beat your children properly. (26:33)

-- Bastyr University, a naturopathic school, says a former student is defaming them online. She says she's just sharing what she learned there. (37:24)

-- Atheists are asking the Supreme Court to rule on prayers at school board meetings. (52:11)

-- Rod Dreher is frustrated by Christians who support Trump, but he's part of the problem. (59:50)

-- Ark Encounter has a new silly excuse for why attendance is low. (1:06:17)

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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religious and politics.

-- Donald Trump said "We Worship God." All of us. (02:21)

-- Trump's ban on transgender troops. (06:21)

-- The Colorado atheist who gave his invocation slot to a Satanist. (12:04)

-- Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback will become a "Religious Freedom" ambassador... for some reason. (17:45)

-- The Boy Scouts' pathetic apology for Trump's speech. (26:51)

-- Ark Encounter will finally pay the Williamstown safety fee. (36:34)

-- The anti-abortion crowd's interest in reverse abortions. (40:04)

-- Don't get suckered in by a Catholic church's seemingly pro-LGBT comments. (47:00)

-- England's NHS will ban prescriptions for homeopathic remedies. (54:34)

-- A Pakistani village's "reverse" rape. (103:30)

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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religious and politics.

-- Ark Encounter lost a tax rebate worth up to $18 million to avoid a 50-cent-per-ticket safety fee.

-- Creationists are mocking Flat Earthers for taking the Bible too literally. Really.

-- The "inspirational" Mormon story that is anything but uplifting.

-- The MN town that shut down a "free speech zone" to prevent Satanists from using it.

-- How Wisconsin is considering a bill that would make it harder to train OB/GYNs.

-- The BYU-Idaho professor who lost her job for supporting LGBT equality.

-- The Boy Scouts may allow girls before they allow atheist boys.

-- The African-American pastor who renounced his ordination with the Southern Baptist Convention.

-- The Muslim Democrat running for Senate who received a surprising message from her Republican opponent.

-- Richard Dawkins getting de-platformed by a radio station in Berkeley, CA.

-- Doctor Who isn't a man. And other things Hemant doesn't understand. (1:26:48)

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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religious and politics. They included:

-- The "Activist Mommy" who can't handle an article in Teen Vogue.

-- An Appeals Court decision saying Christian prayers led by elected officials is unconstitutional.

-- Eugene Peterson, the Bible scholar who inched toward support of marriage equality, then ran back to the other side.

-- Pat Robertson's useless interview with Donald Trump.

-- The "gay Muslim" marriage that's more heartbreaking than inspiring.

-- Why Republicans dislike higher education.

-- The worst possible explanation for why God allows suffering.

-- The growth of the Flat Earth movement.

-- How Jesus apparently needs gluten to transubstantiate.

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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religious and politics. They included:

-- Hobby Lobby's owners smuggling black market Iraqi artifacts that may have helped ISIS.

-- The Pakistani pizza shop owner who made sure his robot waitress wasn't offending customers.

-- The Muslim woman who thinks ex-Muslims are just trying to cash in on apostasy.

-- The sad rise of female genital mutilation cases in England.

-- How some Hindus believe the Ganges River can't be polluted because it's divine.

-- Ken Ham is still blaming others for the economic failures of Ark Encounter.

-- The demise of Utah's irrational "Zion Curtains" law.

-- An excellent episode of the Sawbones podcast dealing with vaccines.

-- Amelia Earhart's apparent resurrection.

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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religious and politics. They included:

-- Cardinal George Pell just became the highest-ranking Vatican official charged with sex abuse.

-- Sarah Huckabee Sanders' irrational godly defense of Donald Trump's misogyny.

-- The Christian who vandalized the new Ten Commandments monument outside the Arkansas Capitol building.

-- Judge Sonia Sotomayor's eloquent dissent in the Trinity Lutheran case.

-- How the Christian harassing an atheist lawyer defended himself by saying he's "man enough" to stand behind his hateful words.

-- Whether hooking up really happens less often on Catholic campuses and what that really means.

-- How the people buying products from Infowars and Goop are all irrational.

-- The House Republicans' plan to use a budget bill to repeal the Johnson Amendment.

-- How Canadians would rather see an atheist Prime Minister than an Evangelical one.

-- There are no longer any openly atheist elected officials in the Republican Party.

-- Upcoming talks, including one outside Ark Encounter.

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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religious and politics. They included:

-- The Christian terrorist threatening atheists over a statue in Tennessee.

-- The Christians harassing the atheist attorney who won a lawsuit in Florida.

-- GuideStar's decision to highlight "hate" groups using the Southern Poverty Law Center's database.

-- The woman who won a lawsuit against an Israeli airline because she didn't want to switch seats for ultra-Orthodox Jewish men.

-- How the Catholic Church is forcing more people to suffer in Canadian hospitals.

-- Why "Breatharians" aren't real.

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