Mark D. Tooley

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  Jan 14, 2020

  National Cathedral Bible blessing is not a 'constitutional horror'

  Apparently theocracy is being launched through the U.S. military by the Episcopal Church.

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  Sep 18, 2019

  Duke University, Methodism and discrimination

  The Student Government Senate of United Methodist related Duke University in North Carolina has refused to recognize Young Life, an evangelical young adult ministry, because it upholds traditional views on sex, which was deemed “discrimination.”

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  Aug 15, 2019

  Muslim chaplain at Methodist school?

  United Methodist affiliated Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia has announced its first ever non-Christian chaplain in 150 years, hiring an Islamic woman as Muslim Community Coordinator.

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  May 23, 2019

  Kirsten Powers, why become Catholic then disregard teaching on abortion?

  Commentator Kirsten Powers wrote a USA Today column lamenting recent state initiatives to limit abortion, describing herself as both “pro-choice and pro-life.” She recalled her own conversion to Evangelicalism a decade ago and more recent induction into Roman Catholicism.

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  May 8, 2019

  Countercultural Methodists

  United Methodism is becoming countercultural after a century or more of American cultural conformity. This transition is required for its survival but it will be rocky.

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  Feb 2, 2019

  Ron Reagan Jr, atheist

  The other night late on television there was a brief ad with President Reagan’s son touting the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FRF), the “nation’s largest, most effective association of atheists and agnostics,” it boasts.

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  Dec 28, 2018

  Witches outnumber Presbyterians?

  Media reports over the last several months have trumpeted that witches in the U.S. now outnumber Presbyterians.

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  Oct 30, 2018

  When Christian Social Justice Activists Ignore Social Justice

  Christian social justice activism almost always focuses on racial, gender, poverty and immigrant injustice. Its intentions are often good. Sometimes but not always the results are helpful. But rarely does Christian social justice activism focus on concerns outside the parameters of the secular left.

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  Oct 22, 2018

  Pat Robertson, Murder & Saudi Arabia

  Pat Robertson semi-regularly excites controversy with provocative comments, typically made on his daily television program 700 Club. Most recently he ignited widespread denunciation for seeming to minimize journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder by Saudi operatives. Robertson stressed the importance of USA arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

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  Oct 2, 2018

  Tim Keller, Christians & Politics

  These themes from Keller are sound. Space permitting, no doubt he would have elaborated how Christian political witness is pursued and by whom. (Perhaps he does in his book, which I've not yet read.)