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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 | Nov 21, 2012

The new movie Lincoln was appropriately timed for release in time for Thanksgiving, which President Lincoln declared a national holiday….

by | Nov 16, 2012

If there is any advantage to a state church, it is the religious stagecraft it can produce for momentous occasions…

by | Nov 8, 2012

Whatever the reasons for Mitt Romney’s defeat and Barack Obama’s victory, it cannot be faulted on traditional religious voters, who…

by | Nov 1, 2012

A recent article from CNN’s religion blog describes President Obama’s increasingly more personal religious faith over the course of his…

by | Oct 29, 2012

Hundreds packed the First United Methodist Church in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 25 to honor Senator George McGovern,…

by | Oct 19, 2012

Colorado is voting in November on whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use. It’s already permissible for ostensible medical reasons….

by | Oct 10, 2012

A new Pew Research Center study of America’s evolving religious demographic asserts that nearly 20 percent of Americans are now…

by | Sep 27, 2012

The Evangelical Left has mostly been low profile this election season. Many liberal evangelicals were quite ecstatic for Barack Obama…

by | Sep 21, 2012

Sadly, four Anglican bishops in the Middle East have joined to endorse international blasphemy laws. “In view of the current…

by | Sep 14, 2012

In the wake of the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya, and especially the murders in Libya,…

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