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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

How Faith Guides America’s Most Influential Figures

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Podcasts

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4.6775 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Faith can be found in many ways, but it never fails to make drastic changes in someone’s life.  That was the story Reverend Russell Levenson set out to tell in his latest book, Witness to Belief: Conversations on Faith and Meaning, which describes how faith entered and impacted the lives of 12 of America’s most remarkable individuals, from world-renowned scientists like Jane Goodall to television broadcasters like Brit Hume.  Reverend Levenson shares some of the most notable encounters he had while writing the book and how his own faith in God helped guide him through some of the darkest moments of his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.9

Hey, everybody. Hey everybody, Martha McCallum here.

0:45.6

Welcome to the Untold Story podcast.

0:47.7

It's great to have you with us.

0:50.4

You know, we deal with such a huge variety of topics, which is one of the things I love about the untold story

0:53.4

and having the opportunity

0:54.9

to dig in with authors and with our reporters and all people across all spectrums. So today I'm

1:01.8

very glad to have with me the author of Witness to Belief, Conversations on Faith and Meaning,

1:09.3

and it is Reverend Russell Levinson, who is joining us today,

1:13.5

who has told me to call him Russ.

1:15.4

So, Russ, welcome.

1:16.8

Good to be with you, and she's told me to call her Martha.

1:19.0

So Martha, good to be with you this morning.

1:21.5

Absolutely.

1:22.4

You know, it's interesting.

1:23.6

A couple of things, you know, jump out at me when I look at your book, which is a collection of your conversations with really famous people talking to you about their really intimate relationship with the Lord and very personal stories.

1:39.7

Everybody from Denzel Washington to Nikki Haley to our own Brit Hume, which is really one of my favorite stories in here.

1:48.4

I have to say I'm probably a little biased.

1:51.5

But I want to talk to you about some of these specific stories.

1:56.5

But it's interesting because when you talk about meeting Brad, it was at George H.W. Bush's

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