RTN Theology #7 Remembering Walter B. Jones: Living by Faith and by Truth
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
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🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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In this episode of RTN Theology hosts Bob Crawford and Keith Larson share personal reflections on the life of North Carolina 3rd District Congressman Walter B. Jones who passed away on February 10th, 2019.
Jones served Eastern North Carolina in Congress and the State Legislature for over 34 years. He became a household name in the run up to the war in Iraq when he led a campaign to change the name of French fries to Freedom Fries. A couple of years into the war, he attended a funeral for a fallen soldier and had a spiritual conversion, becoming the first Republican in Congress to come out against the war. A fiercely independent politician and a devout Catholic, Jones' faith framed the way he viewed issues.
Bob and Keith both shared a personal relationship with the Congressman. Keith interviewed Jones many times over the years as a radio host at WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina. Bob and Walter B. Jones first became friends through conversations about politics, but their friendship grew much deeper following Bob's daughter's illness.
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| 0:24.5 | This is RTN Theology Number 7. I'm your host, Bob Crawford. Thank you for joining me today. |
| 0:32.4 | Past couple months, I've been off of work. I've been off the road with the band and I've been preparing future episodes |
| 0:39.2 | of RTN theology. And something I've had the great pleasure to do is to conduct a few interviews |
| 0:47.4 | with friends of mine about their faith and more importantly about their interactions with faith. |
| 0:55.6 | So when I say, when I say faith, I don't mean necessarily that all these people are faithful |
| 1:01.8 | or are considered themselves practitioners of any particular religion, but that I believe in our |
| 1:10.0 | world and probably since the dawn of man you live your life however |
| 1:17.3 | long that is and you you're forced to interact with faith in some way whether it's a rejection |
| 1:22.8 | of it whether it's a becoming a pilgrim in some. And I'm not talking about just Christianity. |
| 1:28.9 | I'm talking about any way we express ourselves spiritually throughout our lives. |
| 1:36.3 | So something happened this week that made me realize, well, if I'm asking other people to bear their souls, maybe I need to start with myself. |
| 1:47.2 | And what led me to come to that conclusion was the passing of a friend. |
| 1:53.2 | A friend of mine passed away last Sunday, February 10th, Walter B. Jones. |
| 1:58.4 | He was the congressman in the third district of North Carolina. And over the years, |
| 2:05.7 | I was blessed to become friends with him. We weren't best friends. We didn't hang out a lot. |
| 2:12.6 | We maybe hung out four or five times, had several phone conversations conversations he was a prolific note writer and |
| 2:21.8 | card writer and so my family received some cards from him so that's the extent of our |
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