Mark Tooley

1 week ago | providencemag.com | Mark Tooley

Should the U.S. directly assist Israel’s destruction of Iran’s nuclear weapons program? The short answer is, to my mind, as a Christian realist, yes, but not with unqualified enthusiasm. Christian Realism never embraces war enthusiastically, only from grim necessity, hopefully without illusions, knowing that even success brings more problems, and likely tragedies.

1 week ago | juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley

(Last week I participated in an annual Christian-Jewish dialogue with several dozen Christian and Jewish leaders meeting here in Washington, D.C. I learned much about ongoing threats to the Jewish people here and around the world.

2 weeks ago | juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley

In 1818 a Methodist minister in Maryland was prosecuted for sedition because he preached against slavery at a camp meeting. At trial he was acquitted, thanks to his lawyer, ironically future Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, whose infamous 1857 “Dred Scott” ruling claimed blacks could never be U.S. citizens, helping to trigger the Civil War. The Methodist minister was defiant and offered no apologies for his anti-slavery stance.

2 weeks ago | providencemag.com | Mark Tooley

When General Douglas MacArthur argued in 1950 during the Korean War against skeptical military chiefs for his landing at Inchon, he declared: “I cannot believe that a great nation such as the United States cannot give me these few paltry reinforcements for which I ask.”  MacArthur knew of America’s nearly inexhaustible resources that can be harnessed to nearly any great purpose, if there is the will. The vast reduction if not virtual closure of U.S. foreign aid detracts from American greatness.

3 weeks ago | providencemag.com | Mark Tooley

In a stunning operation, on June 1, 2025, the Ukrainian SBU Security Service carried out Operation Spiderweb. The operation included a large-scale coordinated drone strike on five Russian air bases: Belaya, Dyagilevo, Ivanovo Severny, Olenya, and Ukrainka stretching more than 2,000 miles into Russian territory and miles from one another.