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"Failing Americas Faithful: How Todays Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way"

Published: April 27, 2007, 8:28 p.m.

b'townsend book coverA conversation between Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, and Susan Thistlethwaite, President of Chicago Theological Seminary. In her book Failing America\'s Faithful, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend issues a spiritual call to arms to those who feel like her that today\'s churches\\u2014Catholic and Protestant alike\\u2014are failing to promote the welfare of those who depend upon them. After recounting her personal story in one of the most prominent Catholic families in America, she shows how America\'s neediest are now forgotten while their churches fight political battles against abortion rights and homosexual marriages. She provides hope through powerful examples of individuals effecting change and maintains that our individual actions can return our churches to their traditional role as shepherds to their flock. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series. Cosponsored with the Chicago Theological Seminary.'