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Mark Tooley

Mark Tooley is president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, D.C. and author of Methodism and Politics in the Twentieth CenturyYou can follow him on Twitter @markdtooley.
by | Apr 16, 2007

What better way to spend Palm Sunday than getting arrested with Martin Sheen in a Nevada desert to protest against…

by | Apr 3, 2007

The brouhaha over whether Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas will host a George W. Bush presidential library continues. A…

by | Mar 26, 2007

Earlier this month, a prominent group of conservative religious leaders, lead by Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, unsuccessfully urged…

by | Mar 9, 2007

An ecumenical delegation of church officials recently has returned from a warm meeting with the Iranian president in Tehran. Unfortunately…

by | Feb 28, 2007

Amazing Grace, the new film about British abolitionist leader William Wilberforce, has inspired a rush to claim the evangelical parliamentarian…

by | Feb 5, 2007

It was little remarked upon, but Jimmy Carter’s otherwise moving eulogy to Gerald Ford included a fairly gratuitous reference to…

by | Jan 25, 2007

WASHINGTON — Ostensibly, evangelicals and global warming activists are getting cozy. Or so some scientists a several evangelicals claimed at…

by | Jan 16, 2007

Quoting a biblical prophet, liberal mainline church officials, whose constituencies are mostly upper middle class Protestants, are demanding that Congress…

by | Dec 18, 2006

The United Methodist Church’s social action agency is celebrating the season of Advent by spotlighting the issue of torture. The…

by | Dec 8, 2006

Ever in search of relevance, the National Council of Churches (NCC) has latched onto the Iraq Study Group report as…

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