Mark is president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and editor of IRD’s foreign policy and national security journal, Providence. Prior to joining the IRD in 1994, Mark worked eight years for the Central Intelligence Agency. A lifelong United Methodist, he has been active in United Methodist renewal since 1988. He is the author of Taking Back The United Methodist Church, Methodism and Politics in the 20th Century, and The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War. He attends a United Methodist church in Alexandria, Va.
Mark Tooley | A healthy seminary gets delisted by a dying denomination
Mark Tooley | Those who want the West to ditch Christianity would destroy the foundation of its success
QUEST | Mark Tooley | Four books that shaped my thinking
Mark Tooley | Considering the complications and unintended consequences of rounding up illegal immigrants
Mark Tooley | Persecution continues in Nicaragua under the leadership of Daniel Ortega and his wife
Mark Tooley | Some see the rise of the far-right AfD party as a threat to democracy
Mark Tooley | A Hindu nationalist party suffers a setback at the polls but remains a powerful force
Mark Tooley | A rapidly declining denomination jumps into the worldly abyss
Mark Tooley | The founder of Pennsylvania championed American ideals—a fact that some apparently cannot forgive
Mark Tooley | South Korea and Japan overcome their historic animosity to deter a common foe
