How One Man's Faith Moved Him to Fight for A Wrongly Imprisoned Man
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Jim McCloskey grew up in church, but as he got older, he wanted nothing to do with his childhood faith. After a successful business career, Jim found himself feeling empty. He decided to return to church, and—to his surprise—began considering seminary, which would lead him to a jail cell with an innocent man in it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
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| 0:48.5 | Up next, we have a story from Jim McCluskey, |
| 0:51.5 | co-author of the book entitled When the Truth is All You Have. |
| 0:55.8 | We start off with Jim sharing a bit about his childhood and early adult life. |
| 1:04.1 | My brother and I were made to go to Sunday school, but mom and dad were completely unchurched, |
| 1:09.9 | and so they would just drop us off and pick us up. |
| 1:12.2 | So one day, when I was in fourth grade, I said to dad, how come Rich and I have to go to |
| 1:18.5 | Sunday school and you and mom don't even don't go to church? Well, that stung him, I guess. |
| 1:23.7 | Maybe mom and dad were feeling a little guilty before that, but I provoked them by that |
| 1:27.6 | question. |
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