Mark Silk
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
All Stories by Mark Silk
Trump’s Arlington affair harks back to Bill Clinton
By Mark Silk — September 3, 2024
(RNS) — Trump’s is not the first affront to the American civil religion.
Platforming religion: The Dems’ and GOP’s official positions compared
By Mark Silk — August 28, 2024
(RNS) — What the parties have to say — and not say — on the subject as the 2024 campaign heads into the homestretch.
The competing faiths of the 2024 election
By Mark Silk — August 15, 2024
(RNS) — It's Republican restorationism versus Democratic futurism.
The GOP ducks the abortion issue
By Mark Silk — August 9, 2024
(RNS) — The new GOP platform ends more than 40 years of trying to abolish the practice.
Trump’s questioning of Kamala Harris’ racial identity has deep religious roots
By Mark Silk — August 7, 2024
(RNS) — Judeo-Christian thought clings to clear and distinct categories.
The religion of opposing government climate action
By Mark Silk — July 31, 2024
(RNS) — Is it climate denial or simply mistrust of government?
Biden’s exit evokes the crisis in American civil religion
By Mark Silk — July 24, 2024
(RNS) — MAGA has abandoned it.
Hawley’s Christian nationalism is the old-time civil religion, weaponized
By Mark Silk — July 16, 2024
(RNS) — The way it was during the Cold War.
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
(RNS) — Or at least, its 'historical context.'
Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law isn’t about American legal history
By Mark Silk — June 25, 2024
(RNS) — Secular arguments on its behalf are a pretext.
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.
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