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Election Wrap-Up
Clip: Season 12 | 11m 30s
R & E assesses the role religion played in the 2008 presidential campaign.
Bob Abernethy looks back on the impact of religion on the 2008 campaign with R & E Managing Editor Kim Lawton, professor John Green of the University of Akron’s Ray C. Bliss Institute, and Eugene Sutton, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Election Wrap-Up
Clip: Season 12 | 11m 30s
Bob Abernethy looks back on the impact of religion on the 2008 campaign with R & E Managing Editor Kim Lawton, professor John Green of the University of Akron’s Ray C. Bliss Institute, and Eugene Sutton, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
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