Mark Tooley

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  May 17, 2022

  Tim Keller: Right or wrong?

  God has powerfully used Tim Keller, just as He used Billy Graham, and millions of others who were incomplete as individuals but who collectively comprise God’s Church across time and culture. Whom will He use next? Of course, all of us are chiefly called to ask ourselves: How is He using me?

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  Apr 29, 2022

  Don’t celebrate the decline of mainline churches

  The whole world, to the extent it benefits from America’s political and economic capital, can thank, at least partly, Mainline Protestantism. Its failures and decline of the last half century don’t negate its unprecedented accomplishments of the previous three centuries.

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  Mar 4, 2022

  Vacuous prayers for Ukraine

  U.S. church pronouncements about international affairs often are detached, anodyne, and sometimes surreal.

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  Feb 15, 2022

  The New York Times' Evangelicals

  The Times has long had totemic status often beyond reality. So there’s no surprise that David Brooks’ recent Times piece on reformers within Evangelicalism got wide response.

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  Jan 11, 2022

  10 influential Protestants for me

  These ten Protestants have influenced me. Who’s influenced you?

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  Dec 29, 2021

  Bishop Tutu, God and democracy

  Bishop Tutu believed in and witnessed to that Creator in his struggle against Apartheid and for a just and merciful transracial South Africa. All who hope for a more decent world, where liberty is cherished more than control, should always recall his message of truth and forgiveness.

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  Dec 9, 2021

  Christianity and Christian nationalism

  Denouncing Christian nationalism is de rigueur. But what is it? Originally it was understood as a conflation of Christian faith with national identity. But then it was expanded to include generic conservative religious political activism.

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  Dec 6, 2021

  Jefferson's statue and America

  Fallen humanity’s plight, prone to exploitation and tyranny, saddling some while booting others, would be hopeless but for providential interventions through flawed instruments like Jefferson. New York’s city council is self-righteous to think themselves his superior. Instead we should give thanks that God deploys the unworthy to achieve His will on earth.

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  Nov 25, 2021

  Thanking the Dutch for liberty and Thanksgiving

  This Thanksgiving let’s thank the Dutch, who gave refuge to the Pilgrims before they came to America, and who transmitted their own spirit of liberty to America.

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  Nov 18, 2021

  Vulgarly reawakening America

  Whatever its association with the Reawaken America Tour, hopefully Cornerstone Church will focus on truly reawakening America through Gospel proclamation and not through echoing or hosting vulgar political bromides.