Rev. Debra Haffner talks about her new book, Meditations on the Good News.

Hate groups are on the rise and Mark Potok with the Southern Poverty Law Center tells us who they are. Later, Rob Boston, senior policy analyst with Americans United discusses separation of church and state issues.

Former nun Mary Johnson experienced her calling when she saw a photo of Mother Teresa on the cover of a magazine; eighteen months later she began her training as a Missionary of Charity, now she tells the world what really happens behind convent walls in An Unquenchable Thirst.

Christian philosopher and theologian, Dr. William Lane Craig offers eight reasons why God is real.

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has challenged conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to everyone on the political spectrum in The Righteous Mind.

Taking an unabashedly atheistic point of view, authors Edward M. and Michael E. Buckner argue that everyone—from evangelical Christian to ardent atheist—needs a secular America and separation of church and state In Freedom We Trust.

In this provocative biography, Susan Jacoby, the author of  The Great Agnostic restores Robert Ingersoll to his rightful place in an American intellectual tradition extending from Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine to the current generation of  “new atheists”.

Middle East experts, Flynt and Hillary Leverett draw on years of research and access to high-level officials in Going to Tehran to explain how Iran sees the world and why its approach to foreign policy is hardly the irrational behavior of a rogue nation.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State has threatened a lawsuit if the city of Riverside, CA doesn’t take down a cross on the historic Mt. Rubidoux arguing that the Constitution’s “establishment clause” bars the display of a religious symbol such as a cross on public land. Rob Boston with Americans United and Father Josiah Trenham with St. Andrew Orthodox Church join us.