What causes a person to kill innocent strangers in the name of religion? Clinical psychologist and expert on comparative religion, James W. Jones addresses  this increasingly urgent question in Blood That Cries Out From The Earth.

Robert P. Ericksen‘s Complicity in the Holocaust argues that enthusiasm for Hitler within churches and universities effectively gave Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime.

This is bad decision day! Can a corporation exercise religion; yes, according to a federal district judge. Law professor, Timothy Jost talks about the case and the blog he posted. Then, a federal judge in Arizona  has upheld the law to limit abortions beyond 20 weeks. Janet Crepps, senior counsel with  Center for Reproductive Rights joins us.

Margaret Downey, the founder and president of  The Freethought Society discusses bigotry against the non-theist community and later Helen Knode talks about her new mystery, Wildcat Play.

Ananda Rose takes readers beyond predictable and entrenched partisan views to offer a more nuanced portrait of the conflict on the border. Ultimately, she argues, the immigration question turns on how we choose to view “the other”-with compassion or with fear in Showdown in the Sonoran Desert.

Since the news broke last year of alleged sexual abuse of minors by Penn State University ex-assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, the likeness with the clerical sexual abuse cases in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia have been apparent. David Clohessy of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests talks about those similarities.

Christians can change their minds on homosexuality says Shari Johnson who is the author of Above All Things and is president of the PFLAG chapter in Odessa, Texas.  Alex Grecian‘s debut novel, The Yard is an imaginative historical thriller that takes readers to London, circa 1889, in the years of the city’s legendary police force.

In Bad Religion, Ross Douthat offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the rails—and why it threatens to take American society with it.

Professor Sissy Bradford talks about receiving threats and losing her adjunct position after taking a public stand against Christian crosses on campus;  Eric Lane, San Antonio chapter president of Americans United joins her.

Stephen Gardner talks about the lawsuit on Coca-Cola the maker of VitaminWater drinks, calling its marketing claims unsubstantiated and deceptive. Then Rabbi Dennis Ross discusses his new book, All Politics is Religious.