Spiritual Politics
My court evangelical throws in the towel
By Mark Silk — May 31, 2022
(RNS) — From COVID-19 to Uvalde, pastoring a megachurch just became too much for my imaginary friend.
The Southern Baptist and Catholic sexual abuse crises, compared
By Mark Silk — May 25, 2022
(RNS) — Very different religious bodies, very similar disgrace.
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
(RNS) — At least one red state is already making room, it seems, for women to successfully make a free exercise claim.
Dreher’s war, part 1
By Mark Silk — April 30, 2022
(RNS) — The first of two columns on how America's best-known Orthodox Christian writer looks at the war in Ukraine.
How much leeway should the Supreme Court give coaches to pray?
By Mark Silk — April 27, 2022
(RNS) — Is it their duty to pray on the 50-yard line?
House Republicans dishonor an iconic Florida judge
By Mark Silk — April 18, 2022
(RNS) — The latest in culture-war cancel culture.
Can a public high school coach pray publicly on the job?
By Mark Silk — April 6, 2022
(RNS) — The Supreme Court will soon give an answer.
My Ukrainian teacher
By Mark Silk — March 31, 2022
(RNS) — And why his work matters at the present moment.
Franklin Graham, Russia and the ‘Moralist International’
By Mark Silk — March 21, 2022
(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.
Mark Silk
Spiritual Politics
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
English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish