Benjamin Franklin is one of America's most famous Founding Fathers, and is widely regarded as being amongst the "Deist" camp when it comes to religiosity.  Prof. Thomas Kidd, a professor of history at Associate Director of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University, joins us to discuss the life and spiritual development of Ben Franklin.  We begin with a discussion of where Franklin ended his life and why he has a reputation as being a Deist, and what Deism encompasses,...

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