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I\u2019ve long loved the public radio show, Speaking of Faith, with Krista Tippett. It was such an honor to have her apply her special talents to Founding Faith. What an amazing job she did. <\/a> And don\u2019t I sound a good deal more erudite when classical music is spliced between my paragraphs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve long loved the public radio show, Speaking of Faith, with Krista Tippett. It was such an honor to have her apply her special talents to Founding Faith. What an amazing job she did. And don\u2019t I sound a good deal more erudite when classical music is spliced between my paragraphs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nSpeaking of the Founders' Faith - Steven Waldman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/03\/speaking-of-the-founders-faith.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Speaking of the Founders' Faith - Steven Waldman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I\u2019ve long loved the public radio show, Speaking of Faith, with Krista Tippett. 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