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Interview April 16, 2018 · 15:31 · 3 min

Hamilton's faith arc: devout youth, prodigal middle, faithful end

  • Does Hamilton's life show a pattern of devout youth, a prodigal middle, and a strong return to faith at the end?

The host asks whether the musical's impression of Hamilton drifting from faith mid-life is accurate. Cloud agrees: devout as a boy and young man, he wandered in his middle years — Eliza renting a pew at Trinity Church while he skipped — then returned with full fervor in his later years, reading scripture to his children and dying in unmistakable faith.

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