AOF Events Calendar
Upcoming Events
| 2025 Apr 01, 12:00AM April Fool's Day (Secular Holiday) |
| 2025 Apr 12, 12:00AM Yuri's Night, or Cosmonauts Day (Secular Holiday) |
| 2025 Apr 12, 09:00AM - 11:00AM Adopt-a-Highway Cleanup (Community Service) |
| 2025 Apr 15, 12:00AM Ask An Atheist Day (Secular Holiday) |
| 2025 Apr 22, 12:00AM Earth Day (Secular Holiday) |
| 2025 Apr 27, 11:00AM - 04:00PM AOF at Sacramento Earth Day (Community Service) |
| 2025 Apr 29, 04:00PM - 07:00PM Davis Community Meal - Feed the Hungry (Community Service) |
| 2025 May 01, 12:00AM National Day of Reason (Secular Holiday) |
| 2025 May 13, 07:00PM - 08:00PM Board of Directors Meeting (Planning Meeting) |
| 2025 May 18, 02:00PM - 04:00PM TBA (General Meeting) |
Subscribe to RSS FeedAudio & music
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Some personal favorites (click to play, right-click to download): - The Universal Feethought Anthem, Die Gedanken Sind Frei, "My Thoughts Are Free"
- Charlie by Chumbawamba, about Charles Darwin
The Secular Humanist Revival Meeting, Part 1 - The Secular Humanist Revival Meeting, Part 2
- A Grieving Atheist, NPR Broadcast, Dec 27, 2001
- This I Believe by Penn Jillette - NPR Broadcast, Nov 21, 2005
- I Don't Care About Relgion by Ivan Perilli
External link: The Atheist in the Foxhole by Tom Neilson - Also external: Tom Paine's Bones, composed by Graham Moore (see the lyrics here)
Or listen online now with the Jukebox Player. Click arrow to start:
- More freethought listening from:
- Freethought Radio
- Freethought Multimedia
- Freethought Radio Podcasts
- The Nonprophets Radio
- Trolling With Logic
- Freethought Radio from the Freedom From Religion Foundation
- Thank God I'm an Atheist!
- The Infidel Guy Show (media archive)
- Ask an Atheist
- American Freethought Podcasts (RSS feed)
- The Humanist Hour Podcasts
- Freethought Music Guide
- Dogma Debate (see press release here)
- The Freethought Music of Paul Martin
- Reason Works, Freethought Audio Products
- The Drunk Ex-Pastors
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Freethought Webcasts, Podcasts & audio from other sites (this is a feed, i.e., the list changes daily):
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Living In The Age Of Crashing Hollywood Empires
(ANALYSIS) As a rule, I am not a fan of sequels — other than movies that complete a cycle of stories that exist in some existing form of literature (think “The Lord of the Rings”). I am also not a[…]
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‘Just War’ And ‘Just Peace’: A Religious Examination Of Ukraine’s Plight
(ANALYSIS) In recent weeks, as peace discussions proceeded among victimized Ukraine, its imperialistic neighbor Russia, pro-Ukraine Europeans and America’s Donald Trump administration, there’s been some vigorous religious debate about this muddled situation.
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Why Queen Esther Was The Star In The Age Of Rembrandt’s Amsterdam
(REVIEW) If you were to visit a home in Amsterdam in the 17th Century, you might find, in the kitchen, the library, or even inside the fireplace, a scene of the biblical Queen Esther approaching her husband the king. In[…]
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How Easter Could Bring Greater Unity Between Eastern And Western Churches
For centuries, churches have used different methods to calculate the date of Easter. Rarely do they coincide. The search for a common date has also been one of the main issues of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, whose 1,700th[…]
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Flannery O’Connor At 100: Faith And Fiction In The American South
(ANALYSIS) If she were still alive, Tuesday would mark Flannery O’Connor’s 100th birthday. This milestone invites us to explore the many ways in which her Catholic faith shaped her literary genius. O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, where Protestantism was[…]
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Your Kin Aren’t Anywhere Near As Dysfunctional As Jesus’ Family
(OPINION) All humanity is royally screwed up. As a result, your family is screwed up. Likely, you are screwed up, too, and your family may have contributed to that screwed-upness. But your ancestry doesn’t have to define your destiny. With[…]
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New Ways To Grapple With Faith: How Churches Are Wrestling With Bible Stories
Walk through the doors of St. Peter’s Church in the English town of Shipley, in West Yorkshire, and this Anglican house of worship can sometimes result in a very unexpected sight. Forget rows of pews leading down to a main altar.[…]
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Welcome Home: Pope Francis Returns To The Vatican
(ANALYSIS) Thirty-eight days have gone by since Feb. 14, when Pope Francis left the Vatican to be hospitalized at the Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital. These weeks have been challenging for an 88-year-old patient battling bilateral pneumonia. Medical reports did not downplay[…]
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Why AI Can’t Replace Human Creativity Or Our Need To Create
(OPINION) Call it God’s work, but a world without art is a world without humans. Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde knew it, “What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the[…]
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A Product Of Discipleship: Church Baptizes 12 Members Of College Baseball Team
They lined up on March 2, ready to enter the baptistry at First Southern Baptist Church. College athletes, all of them. Emerging from the water symbolized a new start for them. The pastor’s name is Doyle Pryor. Imagine what a[…]
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357 - Ryan Cragun (Beyond Doubt)
I interview Ryan Cragun, co-author of Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society, a new book that makes a compelling argument that secularization has indeed been happening, both in the United States and around the world. You can buy a copy[…]
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356 - Matt Johnson (How Hitchens Can Save the Left)
I interview Matt Johnson, whose new book How Hitchens Can Save the Left argues that the late Christopher Hitchens's staunch defense of classical liberalism is still useful, even 11 years after his death, in helping the American Left to resist[…]
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355 - Joseph Monninger (Goodbye to Clocks Ticking)
I interview Joseph Monninger, a college professor and novelist who discovered, only three days after his retirement, that he had terminal lung cancer and likely only months to live. His memoir Goodbye to Clocks Ticking is a heartfelt, humanistic account[…]
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354 - Bradley Onishi (Preparing for War)
I interview Bradley Onishi, cohost of the Straight White American Jesus podcast, and author of the new book Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—And What Comes Next. It's a terrifying look at the recent history of[…]
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353 - Daniel Sokatch (Can We Talk about Israel?)
I interview Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund and author of Can We Talk about Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted. Buy a copy of Can We Talk about Israel? for yourself. For more about[…]
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352 - Emily Dreyfuss (Meme Wars)
I interview Emily Dreyfuss, co-author (with Dr. Joan Donovan and Brian Friedberg) of Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America. Buy a copy of Meme Wars for yourself. Theme music courtesy of Body Found. Follow[…]
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351 - David Hollinger (Christianity's American Fate)
With less than two weeks to go before the midterms, I talk with David A. Hollinger, history professor at the University of California, Berkley, and author of Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular. This[…]
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350 - David Driscoll on SCOTUS rulings, Jan 6th, and more!
For this special episode, I'm joined by podcast co-founder and co-host emeritus David Driscoll. We talk about the recent disastrous Supreme Court rulings (Carson v Makin, Kennedy v Bremerton, and Dobbs v Jackson); the ramifications of the House Select Committee[…]
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349 - Nadya Dutchin (Exec Dir, American Humanist Association)
I interview Nadya Dutchin, the new Executive Director of the American Humanist Association. Our wide-ranging discussion includes her plans and hopes for the AHA; reaction to the gun massacres in Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX; raising secular kids in the[…]
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348 - Association of Secular Elected Officials
I speak to two members of the leadership of the Association of Secular Elected Officials (ASEO), a new organization devoted to helping elected officials be authentic about their beliefs and ethics, and providing a forum for elected officials to connect[…]
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