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Playing a religious character without making faith the punchline

By Rachel Martin
Published May 28, 2023 at 3:00 AM PDT
This story was published more than 2 years ago.

There was something revelatory about the way the HBO show Somebody Somewhere gently hold the spiritual identity of one of its characters. It wasn't a punchline.

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Rachel Martin is a host of Morning Edition, and a founding host of NPR's award-winning morning news podcast Up First. Martin's interviews take listeners behind the headlines to understand the people at the center of those stories.

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