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294: Will Swaim—The Ballad of Tom Odom

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

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The Gospel Leads Me to Marxism

The former mayor of Los Angeles was raised a nice Catholic boy in South Orange County. He wanted to be a priest and his parents said, please, dear God, don't go right into the seminary. While he was there studying theology, he fell in with a group of people who studied something called liberation theology. The idea that Jesus came primarily to help the poor in their war against the rich.

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