# Chris Coons **Summary.** Chris Coons is a United States Senator from Delaware. He is publicly known for engaging questions of faith and politics, and he holds a graduate degree in divinity alongside his legal training. This wiki references him as a faith-and-politics voice. ## Who he is - Serves as a **United States Senator from Delaware**, in office since 2010. - Holds a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School and a law degree from Yale Law School. - Speaks publicly about his Christian faith and its bearing on public life, and participates in bipartisan faith gatherings in Washington. - Identifies with a mainline Protestant background. This page keeps to uncontested public-record facts and offers no partisan characterization. ## Why it matters in this wiki Coons is a sitting officeholder who speaks openly about faith in the public square. That makes him a reference point when this wiki examines how mainline Christianity engages politics, in contrast to the Christian-nationalist framing tracked elsewhere.