New Book Explores Role of Methodism in American Politics

New Book Explores Role of Methodism in American Politics February 15, 2012

A book that boasts of being “the first of its kind” to document the history of the Methodist Church’s involvement in American politics has been released.

Mark Tooley, president of the Institute of Religion and Democracy, wrote Methodism and Politics in the Twentieth Century as a chronicle of the history of the denomination’s influence on society.

A Methodist himself, Tooley first became interested in the topic of Methodism and politics as a college student who was part of his church’s delegation to the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church.
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