Spiritual Politics

Dreher’s war, part 2

By Mark Silk — May 12, 2022

(RNS) — The second of two columns on how America’s best-known Orthodox Christian writer looks at the war in Ukraine.

Abortion restrictions v. religious free exercise: Which will win?

By Mark Silk — May 3, 2022

Dreher’s war, part 1

By Mark Silk — April 30, 2022

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How much leeway should the Supreme Court give coaches to pray?

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(RNS) — The latest in culture-war cancel culture.

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(RNS) — The Supreme Court will soon give an answer.

My Ukrainian teacher

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(RNS) — And why his work matters at the present moment.

Franklin Graham, Russia and the ‘Moralist International’

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(RNS) — The war in Ukraine has made strange bedfellows of the international religious right.

Ukraine offers a middle path between just war and pacifism

By Mark Silk — March 14, 2022

(RNS) — Not that Moscow wants anything to do with it.

Making religious sense of climate change on small islands

By Mark Silk — March 7, 2022

(RNS) — Some Bible believers look to Noah for an approach to surviving climate change.

Religious nationalism and the invasion of Ukraine

By Mark Silk — February 28, 2022

(RNS) — Under Putin, the Russian Orthodox Church has resumed its czarist role as an arm of state policy.

From new Christian right to Christian nationalism, part 2

By Mark Silk — February 22, 2022

(RNS) — And, now on to the 21st century.

From the new Christian right to Christian nationalism, part 1

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(RNS) — Up first, the 20th century.

Can’t we enjoy the suffering of our enemies a little?

By Mark Silk — February 4, 2022

(RNS) — There's some biblical reason to think we can.

What to do about young evangelicals’ waning support for Israel

By Mark Silk — January 31, 2022

(RNS) — Young evangelicals' values may not be the problem.

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