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Bill Breeden, The Holy Clown, Part 2


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The second part of our conversation with minister, activist, antiwar protester, and advocate for death row inmates, the Rev. Bill Breeden. He earned national notoriety when he swiped an Odon, Indiana street sign honoring President Ronald Reagan’s national security advisor and Odon native, John Poindexter. Breeden began evangelical preaching at the age of 15 and eventually became a pastor in Bloomington’s Unitarian Universalist Church.  Retired now, he’s working on his memoir titled “Billy Pilgrim and the Black Female Jesus.”

This episode originally aired May 15, 2025.

Breeden in 1986.

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