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Watch as Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton talks with a panel of religion analysts, including Kenyatta Gilbert, assistant professor of homiletics at the Howard University School of Divinity and an ordained Baptist minister; Shaun Casey, professor of Christian ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary and former advisor to the Obama presidential campaign; and Mark Rodgers, principal of The Clapham Group and former Republican leadership staffer in the US Senate. 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