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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Don Lemon: My Search for God in America (EXPLICIT)
Description: Journalist Don Lemon says he always had a complicated relationship with God. He cherished the Southern Black church he was raised in, but struggled with the fundamentalist rejection of his right to exist as a gay man—one who wanted to marry his longtime love in a church wedding with all the traditional trimmings. In his work as a reporter, moreover, he saw his fellow Americans losing faith in a higher power, in institutions, and in each other.Setting out to understand the place that religion has in our lives today, Lemon turned a jo...