Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on the Campbell Conversations

WRVO | By Grant Reeher

Published October 22, 2012 at 1:39 PM EDT

This year’s presidential election has brought up a host of perplexing questions about the relationship between religion and politics, and the importance of a candidate’s faith. In this week’s edition of the Campbell Conversations, Grant Reeher probes those questions with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the eldest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy.

Kennedy Townsend was Maryland’s first female lieutenant governor and is the author of Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches Are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way.

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Grant Reeher

Grant Reeher is a Political Science Professor and Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship. He is also creator, host and program director of “The Campbell Conversations” on WRVO, a weekly regional public affairs program featuring extended in-depth interviews with regional and national writers, politicians, activists, public officials, and business professionals.

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