“In 1972 the evangelical celebrity preacher Billy Graham filmed a television interview with talk show host Phil Donahue in a unique location: a women’s prison in Marysville, Ohio…”So begins today’s story from Dr. Aaron Griffith.For further reading: <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238787">God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America</a> by Aaron Griffith (Harvard University Press, 2020)Episode transcript: <a href="https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/">https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/</a>

Francis of Assisi: Model of Medieval Sainthood

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