Paul Moses, former Newsday city editor and senior religion writer, is a professor of journalism at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He was the lead writer on a Newsday team that won the Pulitzer Prize. Paul and the ROI team discuss his book The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam, and Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace in the 409th edition of this series.Relevant or Irrelevant is recorded at the studios of KALA-FM, Davenport, IA-Quad Cities.

BONUS: The Saint, The Sultan: Francis of Assisi's Mission of Peace

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