Mark Tooley

Editor at Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy

President @theird, Editor @provmagazine, Convener @new_whigs, Collator @methodistview, Author @dcpeaceconvo61

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Articles

Memorial Day & Civil Religion

1 week ago | juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley

Memorial Day emerged from the Civil War to honor the dead who numbered in the hundreds of thousands. After World War I, it honored not just the Civil War’s dead but all who fell in the service of their country in war. It’s not specifically a religious holiday but it is a temporal holy day for America’s civil religion, perhaps its most somber.
Episcopal Church vs Afrikaners?

2 weeks ago | anglican.ink | Mark Tooley

Recently the U.S. chartered a flight for 59 Afrikaner refugees from South Africa even as nearly all other refugees from around the world are now blocked. Two senior U.S. officials greeted the Afrikaners at the airport. According to the U.S. President, there is a “genocide” against the white Afrikaners. The Episcopal Church’s relief agency in protest is refusing any further cooperation with U.S. refugee resettlement.
Episcopal Church vs Afrikaners?

2 weeks ago | juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley

Recently the U.S. chartered a flight for 59 Afrikaner refugees from South Africa even as nearly all other refugees from around the world are now blocked. Two senior U.S. officials greeted the Afrikaners at the airport. According to the U.S. President, there is a “genocide” against the white Afrikaners. The Episcopal Church’s relief agency in protest is refusing any further cooperation with U.S. refugee resettlement.
Christianity & Democracy

2 weeks ago | juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley

As president of an ecumenical think tank devoted to helping people form a social and political witness rooted in historic Christian teaching, I think a lot about the intersection of faith and democracy. But my views on these matters were shaped, in part, by books I read as a young man. While in college, I read The Betrayal of the Church (Crossway 1986) by United Methodist evangelist Edmund Robb and his journalist daughter Julia Robb.
Christianity and democracy

3 weeks ago | wng.org | Mark Tooley

As president of an ecumenical think tank devoted to helping people form a social and political witness rooted in historic Christian teaching, I think a lot about the intersection of faith and democracy. But my views on these matters were shaped, in part, by books I read as a young man. A call to actionWhile in college, I read The Betrayal of the Church (Crossway 1986) by United Methodist evangelist Edmund Robb and his journalist daughter Julia Robb.
Ignoring America’s Greatest Victory?

4 weeks ago | providencemag.com | Mark Tooley

May 8 is the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender to the Allies, but America is hardly commemorating its greatest victory. Why? Nazi Germany was the greatest scourge in modern American history. It successfully conquered or subdued nearly all Europe, murdered many millions, and planned to murder tens of millions more. Its ideology, which seduced and intimidated tens of millions, was passionate, hypnotic, and demonic.
Smashing Idols?

4 weeks ago | juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley

Although unveiled last Summer, there’s been recent controversy from some self-identified “Christian nationalists” about a Hindu statue in Texas. The 90-foot “Statue of Union” at the Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple in Sugarland, Texas was dedicated in August 2024 and reputedly is the third largest statue in the U.S. It depicts the Hindu deity Hanuman. There are an 2.5 million Hindus in the U.S., or less than one percent of the population.
America’s Defeat 50 Years Ago

1 month ago | providencemag.com | Mark Tooley

Today is the 50th anniversary of South Vietnam’s collapse, one of the late 20th century’s greatest tragedies. It followed 30 years of war, 20 of which had direct U.S involvement, entailing over 58,000 dead Americans and perhaps 1 million Vietnamese. U.S. Marines helping the last Americans and Vietnamese refugees escape by helicopter from the U.S. embassy roof was an optic that emblemized America’s decline. April 30, 1975, was America’s Cold War Dunkirk.
Southern Baptist Retreat?

1 month ago | juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley

Jack Waters suggests that the collapse of Mainline Protestantism leaves Baptists, specifically the Southern Baptist Convention, as the “rightful inheritors of mantle of leadership in American Christianity. He notes that shifts in U.S. population favor it:The many outsiders who move to the South from around the country need to hear the gospel, just as the native population still needs to be constantly reminded of it.
Christianity Birthed Tolerance?

1 month 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.