Mark D. Tooley

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Apr 23, 2015
Conspiracy and the United Church of Christ
The ultra liberal United Church of Christ, which boasts of its inclusivity and radical hospitality, has now dropped below 1 million members for the first time. Its latest stats, for 2013, show it at 979,239.
Apr 20, 2015
Christian Zionism & Anti-Zionism
A unlikely founder of American Christian Zionism was a zealous Methodist preacher and business man named William Blackstone, who was a Dispensationalist and Restorationist.
Apr 15, 2015
Recalling FDR and Lincoln During Their Respective Anniversaries
All the justifiable hoopla about the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's end and Lincoln's assassination has overshadowed yesterday's 70th anniversary of FDR's death.
Apr 8, 2015
Obama or Cameron: Is America or Britain's Leader More Christian?
Is Obama more Christian than David Cameron? Their respective Easter pronouncements might indicate so.
Apr 7, 2015
Russia & Mideast Christians: Is the West Really at Fault?
Recently there was an exchange between a senior Russian church official and a Russian Foreign Ministry official in which both largely fault the West for the current Mideast tumult and for the torment of Christians there, while crediting Russian policies
Apr 2, 2015
Indiana, Arkansas, Religious Freedom & Constant Struggle
The media and corporate intimidation aimed at Indiana and Arkansas over their Religious Freedom Restoration laws has justifiably alarmed many Christians and other defenders of conscience rights.
Mar 28, 2015
Gays, Murderers, Remarried Catholics All the Same Says Catholic Cardinal
Lifesite News has a nearly 5,000 word interview with a traditionalist Cardinal about Catholic controversies and doctrine, which a Religion News Service headline remarkably distilled down to "Cardinal Raymond Burke: Gays, remarried Catholics, murderers are all the same."
Mar 27, 2015
The Church Against Religious Liberty
Hardly anyone ever talks anymore about the Christian Church denomination, even though it is historically Mainline, because it doesn't have many members left and has become culturally marginal.
Mar 19, 2015
'Sound of Music' as Christian Allegory
"Sound of Music" the film with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and Diane Sawyers hosted an affecting ABC remembrance of it last evening, interviewing both lead actors.
Mar 18, 2015
Methodists and Race
Wesley Seminary hosted a well attended panel on faith and race last evening, undoubtedly nobly intended, but frustratingly offering few if any clear pathways of hope. Several panelists mentioned the church's supposed "silence" about race. But I've attended official United Methodist governing bodies for my entire adult life, and this "silence" has actually been loud and repetitive across at least thirty years, doubtless much longer.