Mark Tooley

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  • Jul 2, 2026
    At their current General Assembly, the 1-million-member Presbyterian Church (USA) rejected a thoughtful resolution to honor America’s birthday. Not uncoincidentally, the PCUSA...
  • Jun 26, 2026
    United Methodism’s removal of Asbury Theological Seminary, located outside Lexington, Kentucky, from its list of approved schools for persons seeking ordination was inevitable...
  • Jun 24, 2026
    The Episcopal Church is selling or leasing its legendary headquarters building in New York city, from whose perch its Presiding Bishops long ruled and resided in a penthouse...
  • Jun 19, 2026
    It can be hoped that, perhaps, the nuclear program has been impaired, that the regime is maybe slightly wobbled, that in God’s own time fissures in its ranks will emerge, that...
  • Jun 17, 2026
    A preliminary report from the 400,000-member conservative Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) has denounced most of what is associated with self-identified advocates of Christian...
  • Jun 9, 2026
    Should the state ever decide who is Christian and who is not? Briefly, the Pentagon seemed to be doing so, creating a new condensed list of religious “codes” for military...
  • Jun 4, 2026
    Does the old Modernist Religious Left still exist? The New York Times found one of its last recognizable vestiges in the Reverend Jim Rigby of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church...
  • May 26, 2026
    The recent movie A Great Awakening recalls the friendship and business partnership of Benjamin Franklin and evangelist George Whitefield. A skeptical deist, Franklin was never fully...
  • May 18, 2026
    The liberal Christianity of the American founding came from authentic, in-person faith communities. Can it survive in a time of influencers and vertical video?
  • Apr 29, 2026
    Pastors face significant challenges in countering these ideologies, as traditional arguments against antisemitism seem ineffective. Our conversation also touches on the influence of...
  • Apr 16, 2026
    A front-page Washington Post story on President Trump’s “blasphemous” imagery portraying him as a healing Jesus quoted prominent Christian social...
  • Apr 9, 2026
    British columnist Tim Stanley claims in The Telegraph that “Trump’s reckless Iran war is underpinned by bad theology.” And he says a “a...
  • Mar 31, 2026
    After years of prosecution, a parliamentarian named Päivi Maria Räsänen and a bishop in Finland have been found guilty of hate speech by Finland’s...
  • Mar 13, 2026
    Christian Nationalism has many definitions, which makes the term unhelpful. Secular progressives label any conservative Christian political activism as Christian Nationalist or for...
  • Mar 11, 2026
    Are Catholic Integralists, who want a Catholic confessional state, and their populist fellow travelers, displacing Evangelicals as the main political energy on the political right? A...
  • Mar 2, 2026
    How should American Christians think about Iran, which US and Israeli forces are now attacking with the stated aim of overthrowing its Islamist regime?  Saturday...
  • Feb 24, 2026
    There’s been a lot of recent conversation about Romans 13 regarding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) especially amid the surge and deaths in Minneapolis. What does...
  • Feb 18, 2026
    Jesse Jackson’s death represents perhaps the end of two eras. He was an icon of the Religious Left and of the historic black church, both of which have receded from public...
  • Feb 13, 2026
    Postliberal Catholic social influencer (and former Miss California beauty queen) Carrie Prejean Boller’s claims of “Zionist” control of the U.S. Religious Liberty...
  • Jan 28, 2026
    Is there a resurgence in religion in America and the West especially among young people? Anecdotal evidence says yes but major surveys do not confirm. Asbury University President...
  • Jan 26, 2026
    The February 29, 1704 (old calendar) attack on Deerfield, Massachusetts, was the October 7 and September 11 of colonial New England. Three hundred native warriors, with French...
  • Jan 13, 2026
    Groyperism, a subculture of online trolls aligned with far-right Nick Fuentes, has become popular especially among young men including Christian young men. The appeal is obvious....