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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Whatever Putin’s eventual demise, we will gratefully pray, Thy will be done.
Mark TooleyMarch 24, 2022
This week the editors discuss Marc LiVecche’s conversation with Rebeccah Heinrichs about the war in Ukraine, Mark Melton’s article about sudden changes in public opinion polling, and Eric Patterson’s series about the ethics of ending wars.
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonMarch 18, 2022
This week the editors discuss Alan Dowd’s suggestion for offering Putin an off-ramp, Mike Watson’s article about the value of America’s empire of nations, and Mark Tooley’s comparison of Christian realism with cynicism and idealism.
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonMarch 11, 2022
How do Christian Realism, Christian idealism and Christian cynicism approach the Ukraine War?
Mark TooleyMarch 10, 2022
This week the editors discuss nuclear threats from Russia, the war in Ukraine, and Mark David Hall’s article about trying to measure Christian nationalism.
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonMarch 4, 2022
This week the editors discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonFebruary 25, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is the greatest act of national aggression since Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait nearly 32 years ago.
Mark TooleyFebruary 24, 2022
Washington was not angry, immoderate or impatient. In short, his example is instructive for our own angry, immoderate and impatient times.
Mark TooleyFebruary 22, 2022
This week the editors discuss Braulia Ribeiro’s article about a Pentecostal church in Brazil, Mark Tooley’s article about integralism, and a 75-year-old piece about evangelism.
Mark Tooley & Mark MeltonFebruary 18, 2022
Providence does not favor nations that imagine they can pursue holiness while escaping reality and responsibility.
Mark TooleyFebruary 17, 2022