Clarke Peters
speaker
443 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Clarke Peters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Embrace the righteousness of Christ.
Franklin is smitten.
Not so much with the theology.
As a man of the Enlightenment, Franklin is all about rationality and skepticism.
It's Whitefield's showmanship that blows him away, that and his command of other people's attention.
The two men form an unlikely friendship.
In the coming years, Franklin will publish Whitefield's sermons, making them both a tidy profit.
Whitfield is at the heart of a spiritual movement that sweeps the American colonies.
The Great Awakening, as it's known, urges a revival of evangelical passions in ordinary men and women, from Georgia to Massachusetts and beyond.
Many Americans feel it as a kind of homecoming, a rediscovery of the religious zeal upon which many of their communities had been founded.
But the Great Awakening is not only about the refreshment of individual souls.
It's also a challenge to established elites.
Not that Benjamin Franklin is thinking very much about rejecting the authority of Britain, at least not yet.
Let's jump forward 16 years.
In January, 1756, Franklin spends his 50th birthday wet and cold, trudging along a narrow, slippery pass in the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania.
In a life of constant reinventions, Franklin's latest incarnation is an unlikely one.
A wartime commander leading 170 men on a special mission.
Eventually, they reach their destination.
What they discover is a scene of utter devastation.
Corpses strewn throughout a deserted village.
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