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Haslam: ‘The word evangelical has lost a lot of meaning’

By , Daily Memphian Updated: May 25, 2021 7:50 PM CT | Published: May 25, 2021 3:17 PM CT
<strong>Former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, shown in this file photo at the BNSF intermodal terminal in Memphis Aug. 22, 2018, talked Tuesday, May 25, about his new book exploring faith in an era of political division.</strong> (Daily Memphian file)

Former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, shown in this file photo at the BNSF intermodal terminal in Memphis Aug. 22, 2018, talked Tuesday, May 25, about his new book exploring faith in an era of political division. (Daily Memphian file)

Former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam kicks off the publication of his new book on faith in the public square by saying religious faith has been overtaken by a partisan political divide.

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Bill Haslam Emilie Townes Vanderbilt University evangelicals Faith in the Public Square Subscriber Only

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Bill Dries

Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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