If you like what you’ve been reading on this blog, you can hear my voice talking about some of these things on the weekly radio show, Writer’s Voice.

Francesca Rheannon’s interview with me will air on WMUA 91.1 FM, 5:30 to 6:30 PM on Tuesday, December 28. WMUA is the radio station sponsored by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Past guests have included such authors as Patricia Lee Lewis, Martin Espada, Jim Hightower and Robert Reich.

If you don’t live in the WMUA broadcast area, it is possible to hear the show on streaming audio. You should probably test it beforehand, in case you encounter technical difficulties.

The interview will be edited, so I am not sure what elements will finally be in there. Our discussion of my book Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy, included some of the challenges of writing about the Christian Right. We also talked about the contemporary Christian Right; the history of theocracy in the original 13 colonies; how the Constitution was intended to overturn the colonial theocracies; how I struggled with the Christian Right’s assertion that America was founded as a Christian Nation, how I needed to find a comprehensive answer to that assertion, and why it was important to me that I did. We also talk a bit about the strengths and weaknesses of the Christian Right; what can be done to counter it; the politics of abortion; and the meanings of such things as religious bigotry, religious equality, citizenship, community, politics and government.

We covered a lot of ground, but that’s the nature of the subject.

If you miss the show, I’m told it will be archived here.