Mark Allan Steiner (PhD, Indiana University) is Associate Professor of Communication at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, and is a past president of the Religious Communication Association. His areas of expertise include rhetorical theory and criticism, religious rhetoric, public/political discourse, and the relationship between mediation and religious identity. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue: Projecting the Christian Pro-Life Message (2006) and “Reconceptualizing Christian Public Engagement: ‘Faithful Witness’ and the American Evangelical Tradition” (2009) and has published a range of articles and book chapters on evangelical Christian rhetoric, media and religion, undergraduate communication pedagogy, and rhetoric education at the primary and secondary school levels. He lives in Suffolk, Virginia with his wife and four children.
Mark works as an executive editor for Integratio Press (https://integratiopress.com/editorial-team/), the CCSN’s imprint, and serves as the co-director of the CCSN’s Nehemiah Institute.