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Double Standards at General Conference
By Mark Tooley The United Methodist General Conference often operates under one sided rules of an odd form of hyper political correctness. During the May 2 debate of Israeli settlements and...
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Britain Remembers Its ‘Finest Hour’
By Mark Tooley Seventieth anniversary celebrations of various World War II anniversaries continue to slip by in what is maybe the last time that large numbers of veterans from that conflict will be...
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Pearl Harbor’s Anniversary and the Churches
Today is the 71st anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Seems like not too long ago when there were still lots of people around who personally recalled that day as unequaled in their memory. My grandmother...
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FDR’s June 6 D-Day Prayer, War, Churches, & Drones
Episcopalians for Traditional Faith has a wonderful email today about the 1928 Episcopal Book of Common Prayer’s influence on President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous June 6, 1944 D-Day prayer, which he...
View ArticleRecalling Hiroshima and Nagasaki
With every receding year, there’s only one bad guy in the Pacific war. This week marks the anniversaries of the atomic strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II. The strikes killed...
View ArticleDouble Standards at General Conference
By Mark Tooley The United Methodist General Conference often operates under one sided rules of an odd form of hyper political correctness. During the May 2 debate of Israeli settlements and anti-Israel...
View ArticleBritain Remembers Its ‘Finest Hour’
By Mark Tooley Seventieth anniversary celebrations of various World War II anniversaries continue to slip by in what is maybe the last time that large numbers of veterans from that conflict will be...
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Syria War, Churches, Methodists, Franco, Spanish Civil War & Providence
In contrast with the United Methodist Board of Church and Society’s usual pacifist platitudes, two United Methodist bishops have made relatively thoughtful, careful statements on the Syria War. Bishop...
View ArticleReligious Isolationism and Pearl Harbor
The following article and photograph, reposted with permission, appeared on the American Spectator website. In the American psyche there’s never been an event like Pearl Harbor. (Photo credit: American...
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Liberal Groups Oppose D-Day Prayer Plaque
Recently, the House of Representatives began active consideration of HR 2175, the World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2013. The bill would direct the Secretary of the Interior to install a plaque in...
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Remembering FDR’s D-Day Prayer
The following is a radio address given by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on D-Day, the massive Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944. The majority of the text is a prayer,...
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Liberal Groups Reject FDR’S D-Day Prayer
Institute on Religion and Democracy Press Release Contact: Jeff Walton office: 202-682-4131, cell: 202-413-5639 cell, e-mail: jwalton@TheIRD.org “Opposing FDR’s prayer at the WWII Memorial, if not...
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Rejecting FDR’s D-Day Prayer
FDR’s highly nonsectarian prayer that he read to listening millions on the radio on D-Day 70 years ago is not typically controversial. It was a broad appeal for the Almighty’s protection of America’s...
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Dwarfs, Disillusionment & The Last Battle
There are plenty of stories from my childhood that I appreciate even more now that I’m older and realize how perceptively they connect to real life. One such story is The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis, the...
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Mere Christianity Birthed 75 Years Ago
Mere Christianity, a seminal work in Christian literature, can trace its history back to 75 years ago today. On February 7, 1941, BBC Religious Broadcasting Director James Welch wrote to Oxford...
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Swords into Plowshares: Yes, the World is Becoming More Peaceful
The Judeo-Christian tradition yearns for the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy that the nations will “beat their swords into plowshares” one day. Between mass shootings in the United States,...
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FDR’s Episcopal Prayer for America
FDR is remembered for his famous D-Day prayer, which he composed himself with help from the Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer, broadcast on nationwide radio on June 6, 1944. But there is another...
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Is America Guilty on Atomic Anniversary?
Institute on Religion and Democracy Press Release August 7, 2017 Contact: Jeff Walton office: 202-682-4131, cell: 202-413-5639, e-mail: jwalton@TheIRD.org “Every step Truman could have taken seems...
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Canonizing Pope Paul VI, CIA Collaborator
Apparently the canonization of Pope Paul VI may culminate this year. He was pontiff from 1963 to 1978, presiding over the latter part of the Second Vatican Council and issuing Humanae Vitae, which...
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Dealing with Hostility to Evangelicalism
Christian author and social critic Os Guinness discussed the unprecedented hostility American Evangelicals now face, and how they should respond to it at a Faith and Law presentation on February 23....
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