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Radio Free Acton – Remembering Buckley and contemplating religious consumerism
Radio Free Acton – Remembering Buckley and contemplating religious consumerism
Feb 11, 2026 9:35 AM

On this week’s edition of Radio Free Acton, Rev. Robert A. Sirico pays tribute to the late William F. Buckley, the RFA regulars are joined by Professor Joseph Knippenberg from Oglethorp University in Atlanta, Georgia to discuss the Pew Forum’s newly released research on the American religious landscape, and we listen in to some bonus audio from Dr. Glenn Sunshine’s Acton Lecture Series address, Wealth, Work and the Church. You can listen at this link.

With regard to the discussion on the Pew Forum study, you’ll find more information at the following links:

The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey Reveals a Fluid and Diverse Pattern of FaithThe big Pew survey revisitedThe Problem With Counting ChristiansSpiritual Consumerism’s UpsideMy Church, My Strip MallWhat Makes an Ex-Protestant?What Creates Ex-Catholics?How the West Really Lost God

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