Mark Toulouse

Mark Toulouse is professor of the history of Christianiaty at Emmanuel College in Toronto. He was formerly dean and professor of church history at Texas Christian University's Brite Divinity School.

Articles by Mark Toulouse

Books

Poor sports

Oct 18, 2003 by Mark Toulouse

Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values. By William G. Bowen and Sarah A. Levin. Princeton University Press, 490 pp., $27.95.

Features

Feminist gains

The Century and women

Dec 20, 2000 by Mark Toulouse

In the late 1980s, Barbara Brown Zikmund lamented the failure of churches prior to the 1960s to understand and help working women, women who had first moved into the workplace during World War II. The indices of the Century during the ’40s and ’50s demonstrate how little attention mainline religion gave to women’s issues during those years.

Features

Days of protest

The Century and the war in Vietnam

Nov 08, 2000 by Mark Toulouse

Part of the fabric of public life in America during the post–World War II years, perhaps the cross-stitch that held the symbolic boundaries in place, was anticommunism. Most mainline church editors were part of it.

Features

Indirect action

The Century and civil rights

Oct 18, 2000 by Mark Toulouse

During the early 1950s, the Century’s editors could hardly be classified as strategists in the war for civil rights, but they tried their hand at analysis and expressed sympathetic support for both the commanders and the ground troops.

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