Upcoming Webinar! Daniel in Babylon: How He Navigated Politics in Exile and What It Means for Us Today

Join us for the webinar "Daniel in Babylon: How He Navigated Politics in Exile and What It Means for Us Today" led by ASMEA president Prof. Mark Clark on March 17, 2025 at 12:00 pm (ET).

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Prof. Mark Clark will discuss his recent book Daniel in Babylon: How He Navigated Politics in Exile and What It Means for Us Today in this webinar.

Daniel lived an exemplary life of faith during historic political events. He excelled at his job in exile while committing himself to God’s kingdom purposes for his day. Because he did, he models how people may live exemplary lives of faith by committing themselves to God’s kingdom purposes for their day, even in these troubled political times. In this book, Clark reveals the nuances of Daniel’s wisdom while living in exile. He evaluates how Daniel appealed to increasingly higher political and celestial authorities throughout his time in office in two different empires, the Babylonian and Persian. Daniel’s righteous living and wisdom in these five appeals reveal why he was considered “highly esteemed” in the kingdom of heaven. In the final chapter, Clark uses intelligence analysis methods to demonstrate the reliability of the authorship of the book of Daniel.

Mark T. Clark is professor emeritus of political science and former director of the National Security Studies program at California State University, San Bernardino. He specializes in national security affairs, including nuclear weapons, strategy and deterrence, and theories on war. His most recent works examine the theory of war developed by Carl von Clausewitz as applied to non-state actors, including terrorist organizations, and the deterrence policies of small nuclear powers, including India, Israel, Pakistan, and, when it had them, the Republic of South Africa. He is currently working on extending this work to include Iran and North Korea.

In the Fall of 2006, Professor Clark received a multi-year grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to establish a California State University Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence among a consortium of seven campuses of the CSU system and in Fall 2011 received a second grant to continue the work from the Defense Intelligence Agency. In Fall 2013, Clark and a colleague received an National Science Foundation to develop new degrees in Cyber Security and Intelligence and was named a member of the Academic Advisory Board for the NATO Defense College for 2013-2015. Clark served in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1973-1977.