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Mark Silk

Mark Silk is the director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College. He blogs at Spiritual Politics.

(A)theologies, Politics/LawJune 22, 2009

Arguing Liberally: Rift in Religious Coalitions Goes Public

By Mark Silk

A public row threatens to break out between the DC-based “Religious Industrial Complex,” which seeks new Democratic voters, and a small group of rabble-rousers who claim that they’ve compromised their progressive souls in reaching out to religious conservatives. How did it come to this?

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