Methodism Next: Mark Tooley

Please join us for lunch with Mark Tooley as he shares his thoughts on Methodism Next. Methodism Next is a post-disaffiliation scripture-based holiness movement within Methodism, defining the purpose and vision of Methodism in the next phase of our denomination’s beautiful and storied Wesleyan history.

Tooley is an American Methodist layman and writer. He is a lifelong member of the United Methodist Church, who became president of the Washington-D.C. based Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD), in 2009, an ecumenical religious think tank that makes Christian arguments for democracy, human rights and religious freedom. He has led and participated in numerous Methodism Next conferences, panels and symposiums throughout the country. 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. His articles about the political witness of America’s churches have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator, First Things, Patheos, World, Christianity Today, The Weekly Standard, National Review Online, Washington Examiner, Human Events, The Washington Times, The Review of Faith and International Affairs, Touchstone, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is a frequent commentator on radio and television.

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