Mark D. Tooley

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  • National Cathedral Bible blessing is not a 'constitutional horror'

    National Cathedral Bible blessing is not a 'constitutional horror'

    Apparently theocracy is being launched through the U.S. military by the Episcopal Church.

  • Duke University, Methodism and discrimination

    Duke University, Methodism and discrimination

    The Student Government Senate of United Methodist related Duke University in North Carolina has refused to recognize Young Life, an evangelical young adult ministry, because it upholds traditional views on sex, which was deemed “discrimination.”

  • Muslim chaplain at Methodist school?

    Muslim chaplain at Methodist school?

    United Methodist affiliated Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia has announced its first ever non-Christian chaplain in 150 years, hiring an Islamic woman as Muslim Community Coordinator.

  • Kirsten Powers, why become Catholic then disregard teaching on abortion?

    Kirsten Powers, why become Catholic then disregard teaching on abortion?

    Commentator Kirsten Powers wrote a USA Today column lamenting recent state initiatives to limit abortion, describing herself as both “pro-choice and pro-life.” She recalled her own conversion to Evangelicalism a decade ago and more recent induction into Roman Catholicism.

  • Countercultural Methodists

    Countercultural Methodists

    United Methodism is becoming countercultural after a century or more of American cultural conformity. This transition is required for its survival but it will be rocky.

  • Ron Reagan Jr, atheist

    Ron Reagan Jr, atheist

    The other night late on television there was a brief ad with President Reagan’s son touting the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FRF), the “nation’s largest, most effective association of atheists and agnostics,” it boasts.

  • Witches outnumber Presbyterians?

    Witches outnumber Presbyterians?

    Media reports over the last several months have trumpeted that witches in the U.S. now outnumber Presbyterians.

  • When Christian Social Justice Activists Ignore Social Justice

    When Christian Social Justice Activists Ignore Social Justice

    Christian social justice activism almost always focuses on racial, gender, poverty and immigrant injustice. Its intentions are often good. Sometimes but not always the results are helpful. But rarely does Christian social justice activism focus on concerns outside the parameters of the secular left.

  • Pat Robertson, Murder & Saudi Arabia

    Pat Robertson, Murder & Saudi Arabia

    Pat Robertson semi-regularly excites controversy with provocative comments, typically made on his daily television program 700 Club. Most recently he ignited widespread denunciation for seeming to minimize journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder by Saudi operatives. Robertson stressed the importance of USA arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

  • Tim Keller, Christians & Politics

    Tim Keller, Christians & Politics

    These themes from Keller are sound. Space permitting, no doubt he would have elaborated how Christian political witness is pursued and by whom. (Perhaps he does in his book, which I've not yet read.)