Failing America's Faithful: How Today's Churches Are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way

Written by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Narrated by Renee Raudman

For too long the subject of religion has been politicized by the Right and largely ignored by the Left, as American churches have become increasingly more concerned with what people do with their bodies than with their souls. Now Kathleen Kennedy Townsend issues a spiritual call to arms to all those who feel that churches in America today-Catholic and Protestant alike-are

FAILING AMERICA'S FAITHFUL

Kennedy Townsend recalls what it was like to grow up as a member of a prominent Catholic family at a time when both America and the Church were undergoing a revolutionary transformation. She shows how today's churches, allied with the political right, have created a new social agenda and have become obsessed with fighting legislative battles about personal and private issues, while the neediest of our country are forgotten. But opposition to this distortion of Christian traditions has been growing. Powerful and provocative, this book demonstrates how Americans can reclaim their religious traditions and transform their churches, their lives, and this very nation.

"Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is a woman of passion, integrity, and faith. Her Christian witness requires her to remember and act on Jesus' repeated instructions to love our neighbors, care for the poor, and repair the breaches among us. She makes a compelling case for those who share her faith to do the same." -President William Jefferson Clinton

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Mar 15, 2007
• ISBN: 9781400174102

Reviews for Failing America's Faithful

[opinion8dsngr · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Representative Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the daughter of Robert Kennedy and the niece of Jack Kennedy. She is also a vary opinionated woman with much to say. In this sometimes repetitive, but often wise book she describes how the bond between the practice of Christian religion and acts of political and social justice has grown dangerously weak. Using her Roman Catholic upbringing in the 1960s as a background, Townsend urges the church to focus less on issues of personal choice and morality and more on broader social issues such as poverty, claiming that this is truly what Jesus would do.