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March 16, 2006
Frederick Clarkson

New IRD President Is a Schismatic Presbyterian

...the announcement of the new president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, a Washington, DC-based organization with a 20 year history of seeking to undermine mainline Christian churches deemed "too liberal" -- is a bellwether moment.

...The Rev. Dr. James Tonkowich was trained at the Gordon-Conwell evangelical seminary and has worked for the past five years for conservative evangelical Charles Colson's Prison Fellowship. He has zero experience in mainline denominations. Perhaps most significantly, he is an ordained as a mininister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). PCA is a small, rightwing schism that broke with mainstream Presbyterianism in 1973 over the ordination of women and membership in the National Council of Churches. ..

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Institute on Religion and Democracy

Institute on Religion and Democracy

The Resurrection of Charles Colson

Church and Scaife

 

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