Episode 17 Churchill, Moses, and Identity
In the 1930s, Winston Churchill, his career stalled, wrote an essay on Moses and leadership, inspiring us to consider the evolution of a man raised in the palaces of Egypt, who became leader of the Israelites.
Text Exodus 2-6
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