We Don’t Get No Respect by Mark Tooley

We Don’t Get No Respect

Think Tank Considers Why the Mainline Is Ignored

by Mark Tooley

In a recent speech, columnist George Will described Washington, D.C., as “an enclave surrounded on four sides by reality.” One could say the same thing of many of the offices of the mainline churches.

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Mark Tooley directs the United Methodist committee of the Institute on Religion and Democracy (www.ird-renew.org) in Washington, D.C.

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