Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Failing America's Faithful

In a public address hosted by the Clinton, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lt. Governor of Maryland, describes how faith has shaped her public life. She discusses her book about faith and politics entitled Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way. She hopes that the people of faith care for the common good and others in the community.

Bio

Daughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend was the first woman Lt. Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. A former deputy attorney general of the United States, she is the author of Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way. Townsend currently serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Public Policy and is a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.