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Trump's anti-Semitism order is much ado about not much

by Mark Silk
December 11, 2019

(RNS) — The president's executive order, which provides protection for Jews long since offered by previous administrations, amounts to little more than politics for the Hanukkah season.

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Pelosi prays for Trump

by Mark Silk
December 6, 2019

(RNS) — The question is not 'Why?,' but why the president would not grasp the well-known Christian concept.

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Let the US Commission on International Religious Freedom expire

by Mark Silk
December 4, 2019

(RNS) — A federal commission originally devised to show up the Clinton administration now only serves to furnish Trump court evangelicals with a bully pulpit.

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Giving thanks for Trump

by Mark Silk
November 26, 2019

A pre-holiday call from my court evangelical.

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The Judeo-Christian tradition versus Donald Trump

by Mark Silk
November 23, 2019

It's all about prophecy.

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The rise of fundamentalist Catholicism

by Mark Silk
November 19, 2019

(RNS) — The recent Amazon synod has exposed just how far conservative Catholicism has been reshaped in the image of American evangelicalism.

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The rise of fundamentalist Catholicism

by Mark Silk
November 12, 2019

(RNS) — The recent Amazon synod has exposed just how far conservative Catholicism has been reshaped in the image of American evangelicalism.

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Do the Democrats have a religion problem?

by Mark Silk
October 31, 2019

(RNS) — With the rise of the religiously unaffiliated, the God gap matters less and less. Will the Democrats find a way to strike a new spiritual chord on the environment?

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How William Barr, culture warrior, weaponizes religious liberty

by Mark Silk
October 17, 2019

(RNS) — In a speech at Notre Dame, the U.S. attorney general put personal morality — and personal religious liberty — above the more traditional Catholic concern for social problems.

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No, my synagogue didn't just violate the Johnson Amendment

by Mark Silk
October 12, 2019

(RNS) — Houses of worship can publicly disagree with the president's policies without violating federal rules against electioneering by nonprofits. Not that all members of the congregation will be mollified.

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Good news, bad news on churchgoers' views of Trump

by Mark Silk
October 5, 2019

(RNS) — In a new Gallup poll, the biggest gap between Trump's job approval rating and how Americans feel about him personally, percentage-wise, comes from weekly churchgoers.

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Anti-vaxxers in America go back 300 years

by Mark Silk
September 29, 2019

Benjamin Franklin was at the center of it.

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Arizona Supreme Court gives Christian artists a lot less than they asked for

by Mark Silk
September 23, 2019

(RNS) — Two graphic artists claim that the ruling means that Phoenix's anti-discrimination law "cannot compel us to imagine and create custom artwork that violates our beliefs." Actually, that's not the case. 

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Pete Buttigieg, Mainline Protestant

by Mark Silk
September 11, 2019

And when it comes to climate change, not in a good way.

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Pope Francis pushes a new theology of climate change

by Mark Silk
September 3, 2019

(RNS) — Rather than blame the environmental crisis on humanity's fallen state, as his predecessors did, Francis emphasizes how nature brings us closer to God.

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Mark Silk is Professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College and director of the college's Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life. He is a Contributing Editor of the Religion News Service

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