Spiritual Politics

The SBC’s critical race theory debacle

By Mark Silk — December 29, 2020

(RNS) — Once the SBC sees systemic racism, it’s a slippery slope to feminism, climate change and LGBTQ rights.

Barr the executioner

By Mark Silk — December 21, 2020

(RNS) — The departing attorney general seemingly went out of his way to reject his church's teaching on the death penalty.

In Trump they trust

By Mark Silk — December 11, 2020

(RNS) — The 'hold your nose and vote' theory of why white evangelicals went for Donald Trump is in shambles.

The Supreme Court ups the ante on religious liberty

By Mark Silk — December 3, 2020

(RNS) — With a new conservative majority on the court, the free exercise clause is due for an upgrade.

Biden, second Catholic president, exacerbates US bishops’ divisions

By Mark Silk — November 25, 2020

(RNS) — A new working group takes the lead in taking on pro-choice Biden.

After religious liberty speech, Alito seems poised to kill off Scalia decision

By Mark Silk — November 16, 2020

(RNS) — After three decades, the late justice's notorious free exercise decision is on the chopping block.

In a less religious country, Biden gained ground with religious voters

By Mark Silk — November 11, 2020

(RNS) — Faith outreach on the Democratic side cranked up a notch, closing the God gap just enough.

The Trumpian breach of faith

By Mark Silk — November 4, 2020

(RNS) — Imagining what Theodore H. White would have made of the making of the president 2020.

The nondenominational Donald

By Mark Silk — October 28, 2020

(RNS) — The president discovers that his Presbyterianism was so 20th century.

Jewish voters edge further away from Trump

By Mark Silk — October 22, 2020

(RNS) — Republican politicians — Trump above all — have failed to grasp that Israel policy has never had much impact on the voting behavior of American Jews.

White Catholics could be key to a Biden victory

By Mark Silk — October 11, 2020

(RNS) — For Biden, the swing shown in a new poll has everything to do with reconstructing the ‘blue wall’ that collapsed in 2016.

Trump in the belly of the whale

By Mark Silk — October 4, 2020

(RNS) — Will President Trump's hospital stay change his approach to COVID-19?

Playing the anti-Catholic card in the Barrett nomination

By Mark Silk — September 27, 2020

(RNS) — Anti-Catholicism in American politics used to be all about Protestants against Catholics. These days, the Catholic right is crying foul, and their opponent is often other Catholic politicians and the pope himself.

With Ginsburg’s seat open, abortion moves to the center of the 2020 election

By Mark Silk — September 19, 2020

(RNS) — For both candidates, it's an issue that they'd prefer not to deal with.

John MacArthur’s COVID-disbelieving church loses round 1

By Mark Silk — September 14, 2020

(RNS) — More interesting than the open-and-shut legal case, however, is MacArthur’s own position in the evangelical world and his stance on church-state issues.

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