{"podcast":{"title":"Texas Matters","slug":"texas-matters-537140","podcast_index_feed_id":537140,"rss_url":"https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters/rss.xml","website_url":"https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8ca4d41/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1400x1400+0+0/resize/1400x1400!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb4%2Fe9%2F4fdea463482a9d7140badee1720c%2Fsafeimagekit-resized-img.png","author":"David Martin Davies (texaspublicradio@gmail.com)","episode_count":20,"summary":"Texas is a big state with a growing, diverse population and as the population grows, the issues and challenges facing its residents multiply. Texas Matters is a statewide news program that spends half an hour each week looking at the issues and culture of Texas.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T06:20:53.643442+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-matters-537140"},"episode":{"title":"Texas Matters: How Texas got religion","slug":"texas-matters-how-texas-got-religion","published_at":"2026-03-09T13:59:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-matters-537140/texas-matters-how-texas-got-religion","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-matters-537140","url":"https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters/2026-03-09/texas-matters-how-texas-got-religion","audio_url":"https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s188/audio/2026/03/txm1428-religion.mp3","summary":"Millions of Texans tell pollsters religion is very important in their lives. Every Sunday hundreds of megachurches fill up and celebrate their faith – which also shapes their politics. The result , elections are won and lost based on performances of righteousness. The State Board of Education bends the nation’s textbooks to a conservative Lone Star gospel, and laws are passed based on Christian values. How did Texas become “one state under God\"?","meta_description":"Millions of Texans tell pollsters religion is very important in their lives. Every Sunday hundreds of megachurches fill up and celebrate their faith – whi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1739,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/texas-matters-537140/episodes/texas-matters-how-texas-got-religion/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-matters-537140/texas-matters-how-texas-got-religion.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}