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Slack.com slash DHQ. So Billy Graham is dead, the evangelical preacher. He was 99 years

old, so a lot of you probably only know him as an old guy who would occasionally come

out of the shadows and say something where people would talk about him. But when I was

a kid, he was a, he was like the Pope of America. He was like a fixture on television. He

knew all the presidents. He was on talk shows. And if he made a comment about the news,

it was news. I mean, he was that kind of important person. Now, in my family, which was a family

of liberal East Coast Jews, I think we always looked at him as a little bit threatening.

He was that part of America that was different from us and maybe excluded us and maybe was

not welcoming to us. My father, I wrote about this in my memoir, The Great Good Thing.

My father was a GI during World War II. And the news of the Holocaust, the news that six

million Jews have been exterminated in this kind of mechanistic way, scarred him for life.

It scarred my father for life. He was paranoid. And anything that he saw in politics, he was

a liberal in anything he saw that was conservative, that was religious, that was overly patriotic,

he immediately thought that the Holocaust was coming again. And I don't mean that it wasn't

like, you know, liberals now, oh, you're literally Hitler. He literally thought it was

Hitler. You know, so I mean, when he would see a character like Billy Graham preaching

the gospel, talking to presidents, talking about Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, he just found it very,

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