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Jonathan Rich

Jonathan Rich

Pediatric cardiologist, former aerospace engineer, and author of A Convenient Villain — on faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Stanford School of Medicine.

Aug 28, 2026

3:47
One is about the impromptu renaming of a church.
3:51
St. Mary's in Daytona was originally named St. Mark's, and, um, when they were ready to, uh, to build their first church, uh, the cornerstone arrived from, uh, from far away, uh, where the name of the church had been cut into the stone.
4:09
And, uh, instead of unpacking it, they left it crated and they took it in a procession, uh, up the street, uh, with clergy and, uh, Masons available for a Masonic, uh, uh, ceremony at the groundbreaking.
4:23
Uh, and they, uh, they pried open the crate and pulled out the stone and, uh, the entire crowd, uh, fell silent because instead of saying St. Mark's, uh, they had misconstrued the, the, uh, the K as a Y and it said St. Mary's.
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So [laughs] they, they quickly, uh, they hastily assembled, uh, uh, a conference and decided on the spot that rather than ship the stone back and get a new stone, which would take months and, and to postpone construction, they, they decided that a, uh, divine hand might've, uh, been in the, in the stonecutter's transposal, and they renamed St. Mark's St. Mary's on the spot.
8:53
Jonathan Rich.
8:54
How do they compete, so to speak, in the modern world? How do they meet the needs of a modern parish? And the answers have been various.
9:08
Some parishes have built later, larger sanctuaries and have used these churches as their chapels.
LeoHOST
6:42
So we kind of agree with you that Roosevelt was not a great guy, but what's the story with Lindbergh? What...
6:48
Okay, so Charles Lindbergh was born in Detroit in 1902.
6:52
In 1927, he flies across the Atlantic and instantaneously becomes the most famous man in America, something that was sort of unique to a new media age in which there were movies and sound and people could get instant exposure to news.
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In 1929, he marries Anne Morrow, the daughter of an American senator.
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In 1932, his first child is kidnapped and murdered.
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In 1934, The man who did it is arrested.
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And then 1935, he's condemned to death.

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