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4 weeks ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Rick Plasterer |Ryan N. Danker |Davison Drumm
In his new book, The Christian Origins of Tolerance, Jed Atkins argues that early North African church fathers were key to developing ideas of public toleration for dissenting views.
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4 weeks ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Rick Plasterer |Ryan N. Danker |Davison Drumm |Mark Tooley
Ross Douthat spoke earlier this year both with Cherie Harder of the Trinity Forum on February 21, and at the Catholic University of America on February 6 about his new book, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, and whether or not there may be a new opening for religious belief after a period of twenty-first century secularization.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Ryan N. Danker |Davison Drumm |Mark Tooley |Methodist Voices
On Monday, April 14, Dr. Timothy Tennent delivered remarks at the Army Navy Club in Washington for the first Annual Tennent Lecture on World Christianity. His topic was “Staying Centered in the Midst of the Shifting Center of World Christianity.” Video of the lecture is available below via IRD’s Facebook page. It will be made available shortly on IRD’s YouTube channel and SoundCloud podcast account.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Ryan N. Danker |Davison Drumm |Mark Tooley |Methodist Voices
This afternoon American Methodist theologian Tim Tennent visited the IRD offices to discuss Wesleyan theological formation. I provided an update on the work of the John Wesley Institute. Video of our Zoom conversation is below via the IRD YouTube channel, audio is also downloadable in podcast form via IRD’s SoundCloud account.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Davison Drumm
Of course, there’s been some controversy about the latest group of evangelical leaders meeting with President Trump, convened by White House faith advisor Paula White-Cain, a Pentecostal preacher. Seventeen persons, many of them clergy, are shown praying over him in a White House picture. Trump’s most supportive demographic is white evangelicals, who voted for him by 83 percent in 2024. White-Cain is senior advisor to White House Faith Office.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Davison Drumm |Steve Beard
On Sept 30, 1938, in the Munich Betrayal (Mnichovská zrada in Czech), British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier signed an agreement with Adolf Hitler allowing Hitler to take the Sudetenland, a Germanic part of western Czechoslovakia. The Czechs and Slovaks were not represented at the meeting, and the new agreement broke previous mutual defense agreements among the UK, France, and Czechoslovakia.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Davison Drumm |Steve Beard |Rick Plasterer
Earlier this month I was able to chat with Jerome Copulsky, research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, on his new book American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order. The conversation about the proper role of religion in American public life often revolves around what kind of polity the Founders of the United States envisioned.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Davison Drumm |Steve Beard |Rick Plasterer
The American movement for civil rights across 100 years, from the Civil War through the 1960s, is one of the greatest stories of humanity. Certainly, it is defining for America. And it helped universalize American values of human equality. Those values come from Christian anthropology.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Davison Drumm |Steve Beard |Rick Plasterer |Mark Tooley
[Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of brief reflections authored by current and past interns about their experience at the Institute on Religion & Democracy. For more information about IRD’s internship program, click here.]Among my goals through participation in the Falls Church Fellows program and internship at the IRD has been to learn more about the Reformed Protestant denominations.
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1 month ago | 
juicyecumenism.com | Steve Beard |Rick Plasterer |Mark Tooley |Davison Drumm
While sifting through obscure Spanish colonial records, it was discovered a few years ago that the very first St. Patrick’s Day parade was not conducted in Boston, Chicago, nor New York City. Instead, the Irish feast day was celebrated in modern day St. Augustine, Florida, in 1601. “They processed through the streets of St. Augustine, and the cannon fired from the fort,” said Prof. J. Michael Francis of the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg, who discovered the document.
