Mark Tooley is IRD’s president 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. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and is a native of Arlington, Virginia. He is the author of Taking Back The United Methodist Church, published in 2008; Methodism and Politics in the 20th Century, published in 2012; and The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War, published in 2015.
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Christian Zionist Dispensationalists are sort of like Christian Creationists. They are reviled and mocked by cultural elites as dangerous and…
Mark TooleyJuly 11, 2019
In time for Independence Day, on July 3 The Washington Post reported on the ongoing restoration of hundreds of ancient…
Mark TooleyJuly 6, 2019
Nigel Hamilton’s third and final volume on FDR’s war leadership, War and Peace: FDR’s Final Odyssey D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945,…
Mark TooleyJune 29, 2019
To what extent can Christians embrace American style classically liberal democracy? Southern Baptist thinker Andrew Walker very sagely analyzed the…
Mark TooleyJune 20, 2019
Julian Jackson’s new biography of Charles De Gaulle, both wonderful and definitive, contrasts his subject’s vision of nation with that…
Mark TooleyMay 27, 2019
The United States and much of the Free World resisted the Soviet Union and its proxies across five decades. Providentially,…
Mark TooleyMay 23, 2019
In a recent Washington Post column Max Boot hoped America one day would have an “unapologetic atheist” president. After all,…
Mark TooleyMay 15, 2019
As a young boy in early 1970s I first saw the 1942 Oscar winning WWII morale boosting film Mrs. Miniver…
Mark TooleyMay 11, 2019
“We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because…
Mark TooleyMay 1, 2019
Reinhold Niebuhr, an inspiration for this journal, was a Christian Realist who renounced Social Gospel utopianism in favor of firmly…
Mark TooleyApril 21, 2019
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