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Kresta in the Afternoon – June 6, 2024 – Hour 2

Ed Clancy updates us on anti-conversion laws in India and Gary Scott Smith looks at the faith of Winston Churchill. 

 

Indian Supreme Court: Anti-conversion law may be ‘unconstitutional’

Catholics in India have expressed optimism following the Supreme Court’s recent comments that a draconian anti-conversion law may be found to violate the Indian Constitution. Ed Clancy has the details.

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After Christian outreach, India’s Hindu nationalist party wins first seat in Kerala region

Indian Christians see Hindu nationalist party’s failure to win majority as vote against Modi

Indian Supreme Court: Anti-conversion law may be ‘unconstitutional’

Ed Clancy is Director of Outreach for Aid to the Church in Need.

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The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill

What did faith mean to Winston Churchill? Churchill was far from transparent about his religious beliefs and never regularly attended church services as an adult, even considering himself “not a pillar of the church but a buttress,” in the sense that he supported it “from the outside.” Gary Scott Smith joins us. 

Gary Scott Smith is the author most recently of Mark Twain: Preacher, Prophet and Social Philosopher. He taught at Grove City College from 1978 to 2017 where he chaired the History Department and coordinated the Humanities Core. He received Grove City’s inaugural Professor of the Year award in 2000, and the next year he was named Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. His many other books include Religion in the Oval Office: The Religious Lives of American Presidents and Duty and Destiny: The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill. He also has a book coming this fall on the life and faith of Jackie Robinson.

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