As of today, Spiritual Politics has joined up with a larger journalistic venture. Not to worry: I'll still be your friendly shipmaster, pursuing the same prey as before. And SP will continue to wear the Greenberg Center/Trinity College logo. But after four years as a privateer, we'll be sailing under the flag of the Religion News Service, which has been providing the country with even-handed syndicated coverage of religion for nearly four score years.Last May, RNS left the for-profit world, combining forces with the Religion Newswriters Service under the auspices of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. And with the help of a nice grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc., it has undertaken to transform itself from an old-time wire service into a modern webzine, complete with a small array of blogs. SP's new URL is http://www.religionnews.com/blogs/mark-silk.
After yesterday's soft launch, SP is going along for the shakedown cruise, which is due to last a few weeks. Whereupon RNS will announce the new site with fanfare and huzzahs. In the meantime, suggestions and complaints are welcome...and may even be acted upon. Just send me an email at mark.silk@trincoll.edu. Welcome aboard...new posts up.
