Mark D. Tooley

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  • Opposition to Torture Often 'Misplaced' By Christian Activists

    Opposition to Torture Often 'Misplaced' By Christian Activists

    Numerous religious voices have been amplifying the findings from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats' report on enhanced interrogation techniques that are denounced as torture.

  • Can Religious Activism Shift on Immigration?

    Can Religious Activism Shift on Immigration?

    This USA Today piece wonders if the religious coalition behind immigration reform, i.e. mass legalization, can survive President Obama's executive amnesty. It quotes Southern Baptist official Russell Moore warning it could indeed fracture the coalition.

  • Brad Pitt's 'Fury' and Jim Wallis' 'Pacifisim'

    Brad Pitt's 'Fury" and Jim Wallis' 'Pacifisim'

    Brad Pitt's new WWII film Fury is violent, vulgar, maybe not entirely realistic, but also inspirational. He's a veteran tank commander pushing against heavy German resistance during the war's final days

  • Defrocking Methodist Clergy and Orthodoxy's Unending Challenge

    Defrocking Methodist Clergy and Orthodoxy's Unending Challenge

    Defrocked United Methodist minister Frank Schaefer, who defied church law against same sex rites, has been reinstated by a church court on a technicality. See John Lomperis's analysis here.

  • Hillsong Church, Relevance and Pariahs

    Hillsong Church, Relevance and Pariahs

    There's a good piece by Andrew Walker in First Things on a popular international church network called Hillsong's apparent equivocation on marriage. At a recent New York press conference, the ministry's leader, Brian Houston, declined to answer whether the ministry affirms the biblical position. Instead, he stresses the church's need to stay "relevant."

  • Franky Schaeffer and Russell Moore on Religious Liberty

    Franky Schaeffer and Russell Moore on Religious Liberty

    This past Summer chronically angry Franky Schaeffer, the "atheist who believes in God" who's made a career of denouncing his late theologian father Francis Schaeffer, issued an "open letter" to Evangelicals imploring them to abandon their defense of religious liberty.

  • George Will the Atheist and FDR the Christian

    George Will the Atheist and FDR the Christian

    In an interview with a Nick Hahn, conservative columnist George Will admitted frankly that he is an atheist.

  • Calvinists, Please Rescue Evangelicals From Perfectionism

    Calvinists, Please Rescue Evangelicals From Perfectionism

    Wesleyan and Anabaptist perfectionisms are the emerging dominant forms of Christian social witness in America, according to this fascinating piece in First Things by Dale Coulter of Regent University. He's certainly right about their pervasive influence but unduly optimistic about their plausibility and sustainability, much less desirability.

  • Assemblies of God: A Growing U.S. Denomination

    Assemblies of God: A Growing U.S. Denomination

    There're some interesting new membership statistics from the Assemblies of God denomination, which has had 24 years of continuous growth and is expanding at a rate faster than the U.S. population.

  • Former Archbishop of Canterbury Cautions Against Islamic Immigration

    Former Archbishop of Canterbury is ruffling British cultural and religious elites by warning against uncontrolled Islamic immigration that threatens Britain\'s \"very ethos or DNA.\"

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