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She attends regular Bible studies and uses a portion of her food budget to make meals for the homeless.

Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the SS before he could be freed by Allied troops, is lionized in American churches, and his letters from prison became standard reading in Bible studies.

Fields also rescinded the Bible mandate for Oklahoma schools.

"Somebody can look into the Bible and think they don't have to be a certain type of way," she says.

As a 3-year-old, Smith recalls grilling her mother during evening prayers, posing metaphysical questions about Jesus and the soul, immersing herself in Bible study and later joining her mother as a Jehovah’s Witness.