Mark Tooley

Mark Tooley

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  • ‘Christian Nationalism’ and mocking victims

    ‘Christian Nationalism’ and mocking victims

    Mocking genuine victims hearkens to a more brutal, pre-Christian ethos in which strength and not lowliness is esteemed.

  • Mainline Protestantism vs. Christian Nationalism

    Mainline Protestantism vs. Christian Nationalism

    Climate activist Bill McKibben, in an article for The New Yorker, commends Mainline Protestantism as an antidote for Christian Nationalism. He doesn’t realize that the demographic and spiritual collapse of Mainline Protestantism is partly responsible for the rise of Christian Nationalism.

  • Christian single-payer health care?

    Christian single-payer health care?

    Totalizing political proposals, even if labeled as “Christian,” usually replace one set of problems with even worse problems.

  • Post-denominational America

    Post-denominational America

    Ultimately, American Christianity will shift and reorganize in ways that best serve American Christians and other spiritual seekers. It may appear messy and disconcerting. Much of the old Christianity is dying. But new forms of Christian vibrancy are emerging.

  • Death of radical feminist theology

    Death of radical feminist theology

    Longtime Presbyterian “womanist” theologian Delores Williams of Union Seminary recently died. Her name is tied to the highly controversial ecumenical “Re-Imagining Conference” of 1993 at which Williams derided the Christian doctrine of Christ’s atoning for the world’s sins by His sacrifice on the cross.

  • The death of Christian pacifism

    The death of Christian pacifism

    How can we glean the wisdom of historic Christianity in current statecraft? That task always requires the careful and narrower path, choosing prudence over zealotry. Who will be the laborers?

  • Polyamory, Africa and Methodism

    Polyamory, Africa and Methodism

    Why do liberals in the United States want Africa to remain United Methodist if the Africans profoundly oppose the liberals’ chief ecclesial agenda of full sexual liberalization?

  • Death by bologna sandwich

    Death by bologna sandwich

    What will St. Peter and John Wesley say about the demise of United Methodism when, by God’s grace, we meet them? All of us have failed in many ways. But clergy who used their office to mock traditionalists with “dreams” or signs about sandwiches likely won’t draw many smiles of approval.

  • Exiting United Methodism now

    Exiting United Methodism now

    Americans care less and less about denominations. Old multigenerational loyalties to denominations are largely over. Church goers now expect churches to earn their loyalty. Exiting dying United Methodism will empower congregations to meet this expectation.

  • Churches and definition of marriage in civil laws

    Churches and definition of marriage in civil laws

    There is a tendency for some traditional Christians not to engage in this issue because it is viewed as politically settled. But The Church has timeless and universal teachings that transcend political seasons. The definition of marriage both inside the church and in wider society is such an issue.

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