Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, author and former lieutenant governor of Maryland, delivered the keynote address at the doctoral commencement ceremony in May.
In a second event as part of the IMPACT Lecture Series sponsored by UNT’s Toulouse School of Graduate Studies, she discussed topics in her book, Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches Mixed God With Politics and Lost Their Way.
Townsend, the eldest child of the late U.S. Sen. and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, is a senior advisor at an international investment firm.