{"id":768,"date":"2009-03-18T15:39:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T15:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/mark-silk-house-sitting-while.html"},"modified":"2009-03-18T15:39:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T15:39:15","slug":"mark-silk-house-sitting-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/mark-silk-house-sitting-while.html","title":{"rendered":"Mark Silk House Sitting While I&#8217;m on Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on vacation from March 19-24.  I&#8217;m very fortunate to have Mark Silk as guest host.<br \/>\nA former religion reporter, Mark has in recent years run the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion and Public Life at Trinity College &#8212; and most recently launched a terrific blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritual-politics.org\/\">Spiritual Politics.<\/a><br \/>\nBy the way, his was the group that released the important American Religious Identity Survey which concluded, among other things, that people with no religious affiliations are the fastest growing faith group.  So if you have questions about that, here&#8217;s a perfect chance to ask them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on vacation from March 19-24. I&#8217;m very fortunate to have Mark Silk as guest host. 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