Spiritual Politics
Those Columbia deans deserved their removals. But what’s next?
By Mark Silk — July 9, 2024
(RNS) — The challenge of actually addressing the rise of antisemitism.
Teaching the Bible in Oklahoma
By Mark Silk — June 28, 2024
Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law isn’t about American legal history
By Mark Silk — June 25, 2024
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Louisiana’s Ten Commandments mandate violates its own religious freedom heritage
By Mark Silk — June 21, 2024
(RNS) — It's a legal birthright that goes back to the French Revolution and Thomas Jefferson.
Roberts and Alito are polarized on polarization
By Mark Silk — June 14, 2024
(RNS) — That upside-down flag had special significance.
Would Madison have been OK with posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms?
By Mark Silk — May 31, 2024
(RNS) — Nope.
OK, GOP, let’s put that antisemitism definition into effect!
By Mark Silk — May 10, 2024
(RNS) — Maybe there's an upside to the Republican effort to codify it.
Is the golden age of American Jews really ending?
By Mark Silk — May 8, 2024
(RNS) — Reports of its demise are premature.
The pro-life movement in political retreat
By Mark Silk — May 3, 2024
(RNS) — It finds itself at serious odds with Americans' historical deference to diversity of belief.
A Jan. 6 antisemite is sent to prison. What do the presidential candidates say?
By Mark Silk — April 25, 2024
(RNS) — One condemns antisemitism. The other holds former Proud Boys up as victims.
What happens when most of the Catholic churches in Baltimore close?
By Mark Silk — April 18, 2024
(RNS) — The loss to local communities is likely to be substantial.
How allowing abortion for secular reasons means allowing it for religious reasons
By Mark Silk — April 9, 2024
(RNS) — States’ abortion laws may not be ‘underinclusive.’
Spiritual libertarianism swatted down in Wisconsin
By Mark Silk — April 3, 2024
(RNS) — Conservative legal groups are trying to erase a distinction between religious employers and religious activity.
Joe Lieberman’s religiously promiscuous campaign
By Mark Silk — March 28, 2024
(RNS) — A missed opportunity for the first Jew on a major-party presidential ticket.
Texas attorney general hates migrants more than he loves religious liberty
By Mark Silk — March 26, 2024
(RNS) — Annunciation House in El Paso is the case in point.
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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
