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I hope you’re ready to get up close and personal with your favourite witches! With your host, Hana the Suburban Witch, an intuitive Tarot reader, Astrologer and Witch to guide your way. Hana's conversations cover the many topics and nuances within witchcraft, religion and spirituality. Her warm and engaging manner makes for easy listening and easy learning. Perfect from the witch curious to the fully fledged witch and even those simply needing some guidance. You can submit questions for the ...
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A weekly show, broadcast live from Madison, Wis., on 92.1 FM, Saturdays 11 a.m. to 12 noon. Hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents, Freedom From Religion Foundation. Slightly irreverent views, news, music and interviews.
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The Christian nationalist "Project 2025" and the Ten Commandments are the focus of this week's show. We hear Dan Barker's song "We, The People," challenging the notion that we are "one nation, under God." Then, sociologist Samuel L. Perry, author of The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, describes …
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We announce state/church victories and complaints in Louisiana, Idaho, North Carolina, Texas and Mississippi. FFRF Senior Counsel Sam Grover tells us about the lawsuit FFRF has filed this week with a coalition challenging Louisiana's new law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms. Then, Tony-nominated Broadway…
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We announce plans to sue the state of Louisiana over their new law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms. We hear Congressman Jared Huffman and comedian John Oliver describe the Christian nationalist dangers of Project 2025. Then historian Bryan Mark Rigg tells us about the religious nationalism undergirding …
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We celebrate the 96th birthday of the Broadway composer Charles Strouse, a lifelong atheist, by hearing the protest song he wrote for the musical "Golden Boy," "No More," sung by Sammy Davis Jr. We also reprise part of our 2009 interview with Strouse. Then we speak with Professor Anthony B. Pinn about his new book, The Black Practice of Disbelief: …
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A judge ruled that our lawsuit challenging an Oklahoma religious charter school can continue. FFRF Director of Communications Amitabh Pal tells us about the national election results in India, which have weakened the threat of Hindu nationalism. Then we speak with novelist Amy Sohn about her book on Anthony Comstock, The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, C…
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A theocrat and a secularist duke it out in Louisiana. We ask whether Justice Samuel Alito should recuse himself. We report state/church complaints in Minnesota, California, Tennessee and Virginia. FFRF Legal Fellow Hirsh Joshi tells us how his letter to a Missouri school district successfully stopped prayers at graduation. Then we talk with neurolo…
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We call on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to resign, after revelations that political and Christian nationalist flags have flown outside his homes. Deputy Legal Director Liz Cavell prognosticates over SCOTUS's upcoming mifepristone decision and Social Works Fellow Kat Grant discusses the religious war against the LGBTQAI-plus community from a p…
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Today's guest, philosophy Professor Patrick J. Hurley, discusses his insightful new book, Religion, Power and Illusion: A Genealogy of Religious Belief. And FFRF Legal Fellow Hirsh Joshi talks about how an FFRF complaint caused a Minnesota jail to repaint — and hopefully repent — over a massive Ten Commandments display.…
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After reporting on state/church separation in Alabama, Florida and Arizona, and on blasphemy, book banning and abortion, we hear the optimistic song "Workin' on a World" by Iris DeMent. Then, we speak with NPR Correspondent Sarah McCammon about her new book The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church.…
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Future of the World's Largest Secular Democracy
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Guest host Amitabh Pal, FFRF Communications Director, begins by talking about the various ways the Freedom From Religion Foundation is making waves: at Capitol Hill receptions, during major conferences and in the media. Then, the show has an interview with Indian activist Shabnam Hashmi discussing possibly the most important election in the history…
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FFRF attorney Sam Grover joins us to describe our newest amicus ("friend of the court") brief over an Arizona school board member who refuses to stop pushing her religion at board meetings. We announce FFRF's "Godless Gospel" musical show to be performed in Manhattan June 24 and 25 (and hear a sneak preview). Then, we speak with Adam Neiblum, autho…
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"Christian nationalists are truly in la-la land," says Annie Laurie Gaylor. We cover state/church news in Tennessee, Arizona, Maine, Wisconsin and Louisiana. To honor Earth Day (April 22), after hearing satiric songwriter Roy Zimmerman perform his climate-change song "We Are The Worst," well-known Wisconsin TV meteorologist Bob Lindmeier tells us t…
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We talk about Charlie Chaplin, the “Lucy” fossil, the eclipse, and state/church issues in Illinois, Kentucky, North Carolina, Arizona, Utah, Louisiana and Uganda. Then, we speak with journalism Professor Diane Winston about her new book Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision.…
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Demons and Negative Entities with Michelle Belanger - Season 2 Finale!
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In this episode I’m chatting with Michelle Belanger; occult expert, and the author of more than thirty books on paranormal topics. They are the Founder and lead clergy of the magickal group House Kheperu but you might know them better for their work as a psychic medium and occult expert on A&E's Paranormal State and Osbourne Media's Portals to Hell…
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We talk about the eclipse, an intersex atheist, and a freethinking songwriter. We report on state/church complaints and victories. Then, we speak with Danielle Nagle, director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Museum in upper New York state dedicated to the 19th-century feminist, abolitionist, author of the 1893 book Woman, Church and State, and advocate …
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Hana Help Me! Altars, Ancestors & Deities
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In this episode Hana O'Neill the Suburban Witch chats about troubleshooting your practice when it comes to multiple altars, working with ancestors AND working with a deity. For further resources join the Suburban Witches Society here https://www.suburbanwitchery.com/society *this months bonus in the SWS is a video of Hana refreshing her altar space…
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Abortion is in the news this week. FFRF attorneys analyze oral arguments in the mifepristone (abortion pill) case before the Supreme Court that was taken by religious-right groups. Then, we speak with U.K. journalist Siân Norris about her book Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global.…
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In this episode Hana O'Neill the Suburban Witch gives you the low down on what is actually going on in the sky when Mercury goes Retrograde. She shares how it affects us as a collective and how it may affect you personally based on your own natal chart. Join the Suburban Witches Society here https://www.suburbanwitchery.com/society Send your Hana H…
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FFRF Senior Counsel Patrick Elliott tells us about FFRF's newest federal lawsuit challenging religious discrimination against the Satanic Temple's desire to host afterschool club meetings for children in Memphis, Tenn. Then, FFRF Director of Governmental Affairs Mark Dann and Senior Policy Counsel Ryan Jayne describe how the FFRF Action Fund (a 501…
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In this episode Hana O'Neill the Suburban Witch goes on a deep dive around working with deities, gods and goddesses. She covers the signs to look out for, recounting her own story of when Thoth reached out to her. Egyptian Sacred Texts; https://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/index.htm For further resources join the Suburban Witches Society here https://w…
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Many FFRF victories and legal complaints to talk about this week. Since today is "Pi Day," and π is irrational, we hear the irreverent Joe Hill song about the irrational belief of "pie in the sky" called "The Preacher and the Slave." Then we speak with Steven Emmert, Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America, working to "protect the e…
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In this episode I’m chatting with Erica Davis of Dork Witchery. Erica is a freelance editor, co-host & producer of “This Podcast Needs a Title”, and tarot reader. In 2013, she quit her doctoral program in a blaze of glory to coach adult learners through academic writing, pivoted to editing fiction, then apprenticed with a literary agency. Her work …
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After we report on state/church violations and victories in Illinois, California, Kentucky, Alabama, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, FFRF's Senior Policy Counsel Ryan Jayne tells us "everything you need to know about public school chaplain bills" that are being introduced in many states. Then, we speak with Wisconsin state Sen. Kelda Roys, an openly atheis…
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Hana Help Me! I have ADHD and Meditating is HARD
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In this episode Hana O'Neill the Suburban Witch gets right into the concept of meditation with a specific focus on the tweaks needed for those with ADHD. She shares on the difference between Active and Inactive meditation + which brain waves states are the best to aim for. Here is the link for the Mystic Metals Coin Divination Kickstarter: https://…
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“Welcome to the end of democracy,” said a Christian nationalist leader. This week, we parse many of such anti-democratic comments made by evangelical leaders. After hearing a Spanish-language version of the love song “It's Only Natural,” we talk with Enrico Gnaulati, author of the book Flourishing Love: A Secular Guide to Lasting Intimate Relations…
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In this episode Hana O'Neill the Suburban Witch defines the term 'low energy witchcraft' which is a great option for folks who are disabled, neurodivergent, chronically ill, time poor, new parents, on a budget and more. Included are lot's of examples of various types of low energy witchcraft and a couple of Hana's personal spells are shared too. Jo…
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FFRF's Equal Justice Works Legal Fellow Kat Grant describes the amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief they wrote for FFRF in a case involving an Oregonian Christian who is challenging the law prohibiting her from discriminating against LGBTQ+ children in the adoption process. Then, we talk about the new documentary film "God and Country,” produced by …
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Hana Help Me! Does Location Matter When Spellcasting?
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In this episode Hana O'Neill the Suburban Witch answers a listener question about location during spell casting and whether it matters, or not. Send your Hana Help Me questions to info@suburbanwitchery.com Find the waitlist for both the Psychic Course and the Exvangelical Deconstruction Course/Classes here https://www.suburbanwitchery.com/courses T…
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This week we talk about Christian nationalism, leaving the Mormon Church, and religion in the classroom. After listening to part of our TV interview with Rep. Jared Huffman about the theocratic Speaker of the House, we talk with historian Robin Vose, author of The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Gre…
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