# Religious Liberty: The First Freedom Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-1160693/religious-liberty-the-first-freedom Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-1160693/religious-liberty-the-first-freedom.md Podcast: [The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-1160693) Published: 2026-04-10T04:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour/religious-liberty-the-first-freedom Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0c7e618e-d306-498b-89ea-af55014957fe/c846b5d6-dbda-4db3-80c3-af5700e2f321/0eaf0bce-afc3-4ebf-9544-b42500e75258/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=26b8df01-5a52-4102-bb8e-af5700e2f33d Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-1160693/episodes/religious-liberty-the-first-freedom Duration seconds: 2764 ## Resource Guests: Kelly Shackelford & Kelly Scott Franklin Host Scot Bertram talks with Kelly Shackelford, president and CEO of First Liberty Institute , about the current state of religious liberty in the United States and his work on President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission. And Kelly Scott Franklin, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, returns for a new series on the poems of Emily Dickinson. This week, he focuses on "Death sets a Thing significant."  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-1160693/episodes/religious-liberty-the-first-freedom/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radio-free-hillsdale-hour-1160693/religious-liberty-the-first-freedom.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.