Spiritual Politics
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.
From the new Christian right to Christian nationalism, part 1
By Mark Silk — February 21, 2022
(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.
When religious freedom is for me, not for thee
By Mark Silk — January 20, 2022
(RNS) — Could the current zealotry for religious freedom be just a pretext for looking after one’s own parochial interests?
To define or not to define antisemitism? That’s a good question.
By Mark Silk — January 13, 2022
(RNS) — A 2016 definition has lent itself to a range of uses — some positive, others not so much.
Anti-vaxxism is the latest in America’s esoteric religions
By Mark Silk — January 5, 2022
(RNS) — As opposed to the exoteric religion of public health.
The Trumpist Reformation is upon us
By Mark Silk — December 28, 2021
(RNS) — If you want to understand post-Trump politics, look to Martin Luther.
Let’s treat religious liberty like conscientious objection
By Mark Silk — December 21, 2021
(RNS) — Here's a modest proposal for improving current free-exercise jurisprudence.
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