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Evangelicals For Trump Tops List Of 2017 Religion Stories

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Donald J. Trump was the Religion News Association's Religion Newsmaker of the Year for garnering the conservative evangelical vote and for figuring prominently in a number of religion stories in 2017.

From ushering Donald Trump into the White House to NFL players taking a knee to a mass shooting at a Baptist church in Texas, much of the major news of the past year involved religion. Guest host Brian Ellison reviews the Religion News Association's Top 10 religion stories with University of Missouri professor Debra Mason and religion writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Peter Smith.  

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