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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 | Dec 1, 2006

The 5 million member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) recently hosted a conference in Berlin, Germany about sinister “walls.”…

by | Nov 22, 2006

Supposedly, it was Anglicans in Virginia who celebrated the First Thanksgiving rather than Puritan Congregationalists in Massachusetts. Steadfast Virginians believe…

by | Sep 22, 2006

Former Yale chaplain and New York Riverside Church pastor William Sloane Coffin, who died in April, was one of the…

by | Sep 1, 2006

WASHINGTON — Radical nun Joan Chittister remembers a better America before 9/11. Writing in the current issue of the Religious…

by | Aug 23, 2006

“Sanctuary” became a cause celebre in the 1980s when left-wing churches ostensibly offered it to illegal Central American refugees as…

by | Aug 15, 2006

WASHINGTON — Advocates of same-sex unions of course argue that they only want equality for homosexual persons. Conservative skeptics surmise…

by | Jul 31, 2006

WASHINGTON — Keenly aware that evangelicals are now a key voting bloc, conservative and liberal religionists are trying to capture…

by | Jul 26, 2006

WASHINGTON — A plethora of new books is poring out explaining why Jesus is not a Republican. Supposedly millions of…

by | Jul 10, 2006

WASHINGTON — Religious left activist Jim Wallis (author of the best-selling Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left…

by | Jun 23, 2006

WASHINGTON — The movement to divest in firms doing business in Israel is collapsing. Even leftist-governed mainline Protestant denominations are…

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