Mark D. Tooley

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  May 25, 2015

  Memorial Day & Democracy of the Dead

  Memorial Day is primarily about honoring the legacy of the dead, especially persons who served sacrificially in the military.

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  May 23, 2015

  Nelson Rockefeller as a Social Gospel Christian

  Richard Norton Smith's outstanding new biography of Nelson Rockefeller does not directly focus much on the religious beliefs of the wealthy scion and long-time presidential aspirant.

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  May 17, 2015

  Commemorating the Burning at the Stake of Jan Hus

  Czech church reformer Jan Hus was burned at the stake 600 years ago this summer.

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  May 14, 2015

  Dismissing the Death Penalty: The Nun and the Boston Bomber

  Famous anti-death penalty campaigner Sister Helen Prejean, who inspired the Susan Sarandon movie "Dead Man Walking," testified Monday on behalf of the Boston Bomber facing possible execution for murdering four, including an 8 year old child, and wounding 264, many of whom lost limbs.

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  May 13, 2015

  The New Pew Survey on Religion & Lament for Nominal Christianity

  A new Pew survey shows the number of Americans identifying as Christians declining from 78% to 70% since 2007.

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  May 8, 2015

  Do Pastors Know God's Will on Medicaid Expansion? Seriously?

  Recently a group of mostly liberal Protestant clergy (but including a Catholic bishop) signed a Nashville Tennessean op-ed denouncing conservative Tennessee legislators who oppose Obamacare-facilitated Medicaid expansion in their state.

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  May 7, 2015

  The Water Diviner: Russell Crowe Amid Ottoman Political Correctness

  Does Russell Crowe's new WWI-era film The Water Diviner aim to demonize Christianity and exalt Islam?

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  May 1, 2015

  Recalling Saigon's Fall

  Here's a marvelous story of the CIA operative who helped some of the 65,000 South Vietnamese who escaped in the final few days before Saigon fell to the Communists on April 30, 1975, just in time for May Day, the international Marxist holiday.

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  Apr 28, 2015

  Baltimore Riots & the Vocation for Order

  The Baltimore riots reminded me of a passage I read last eve from Richard Norton Smith's excellent new Nelson Rockefeller biography about the 1971 Attica prison riot.

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  Apr 27, 2015

  Religious Liberty, Marriage & Liberal Protestants vs. Ecumenical Consensus In the United Methodist Church

  These bishops completely ignore that United Methodism officially affirms laws in civil society defining marriage as the union of man and woman.