Mark Silk is Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and Professor of Religion in Public Life Emeritus at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His most recent book, with Jerome A. Chanes, is The Future of Judaism in America (2023).

Rhys H. Williams is Professor Emeritus in Sociology from Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois and Visiting Scholar in Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His most recent book, with R. Haberski and P. Goff, is Civil Religion Today: Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century (2021).