Mark Tooley

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

2 weeks ago | juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Methodist Voices |James Diddams

There are currently five major streams of Protestant political outlook and activism. The first, in terms of age, is the old Religious Left. It’s comprised chiefly of clergy from what’s left of Mainline Protestantism. It has little political influence but sometimes gets attention because it can stage rallies with berobed clergy in clerical collars. And it still has historic institutional affiliations.

2 weeks ago | juicyecumenism.com | Methodist Voices |Riley Case |Mark Tooley |James Diddams

In cleaning out some of my files recently I came across a very fat folder labeled “CUIC.” Churches Uniting in Christ is an ecumenical effort to merge, covenant, or express unity between denominations. Not much from the past 20 years was in the folder but there was plenty before that. It was intriguing enough that I believe reflection on ecumenism is worth a series of articles. We are, after all, in a time in which institutions (including church denominations) are rapidly changing.

2 weeks ago | providencemag.com | Mark Tooley

This journal is modeled on Christianity & Crisis, which Reinhold Niebuhr founded in 1941 to urge American Protestants to aid the Allies against the Axis. Its theme was that neither morality nor national interest justified continued isolation. That self-imposed isolation was military and economic, including neutrality towards foreign conflicts and high tariffs against foreign products. Niebuhr believed America must both engage and lead. We are at another point in the U. S.