Spiritual Politics
Alabama’s IVF protection law redefines embryonic personhood
By Mark Silk — March 13, 2024
(RNS) — A process that is taking place across the country.
Biden restores faith-based initiative’s religious liberty protections — more or less
By Mark Silk — March 6, 2024
(RNS) — Religious freedom safeguards put in place by Obama and removed by Trump are back, mostly.
Alito argues that religious bias is better than any other kind
By Mark Silk — February 29, 2024
(RNS) — The Supreme Court justice said a Missouri case proves he was right about same-sex marriage.
Alabama IVF decision is bad law with religious filigree
By Mark Silk — February 26, 2024
(RNS) — Being a religious conservative doesn't necessarily make you a theocrat.
A call for Christian leaders to denounce the Russian Orthodox Church
By Mark Silk — February 22, 2024
(RNS) — Calling out leaders who seem to consider it bad ecumenical manners to tell the Russian patriarch he’s wrong.
Super Bowl religion ads are a blast from the past
By Mark Silk — February 13, 2024
(RNS) — The ads from three sectors of American faith harked back to when faith played a peacemaking role.
Trump disqualification case has shaken up American civil religion
By Mark Silk — February 6, 2024
(RNS) — Liberals and conservatives have switched sides.
In new book, Tim Alberta sees another way for evangelical Christians in politics
By Mark Silk — January 30, 2024
(RNS) — His new book summons fellow evangelicals to reclaim their faith.
Does the Constitution depend on morality and religion?
By Mark Silk — January 16, 2024
(RNS) — A cautionary tale from John Adams.
Why didn’t President Biden kick off his campaign at Gettysburg?
By Mark Silk — January 8, 2024
(RNS) — The comparison to outright Civil War was likely too dangerous.
What Christian moral theology has to say about Trump’s eligibility for office
By Mark Silk — January 2, 2024
(RNS) — It's akriveia versus oikonomia.
Suppose Adam and Eve had said they were sorry
By Mark Silk — December 28, 2023
(RNS) — Would it have made any difference?
How anti-Zionism became anti-Judaism
By Mark Silk — December 19, 2023
(RNS) — Once dismissed by many Jews, Zionism has become part and parcel of the lived experience of Judaism.
Americans are becoming less spiritual as well as less religious
By Mark Silk — December 11, 2023
(RNS) — But you'd never know it from the latest Pew survey.
On urgent issues, US Catholic bishops should follow the pope’s lead
By Mark Silk — December 4, 2023
(RNS) — Catching up with Francis on climate as well as democracy.
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
