From the Wilderness to the Threshold of Reform
by Rev. Mark Creech RevMarkCreech.org For more than twenty-five years, I have addressed alcohol policy in North Carolina and across the nation. During much of that time, I often felt like John the Baptist in the wilderness — warning, pleading, and reasoning with a...
When Zeal Becomes Persecution
Rev. Mark Creech RevMarkCreech.org Before he became the apostle Paul, Saul of Tarsus was a man utterly convinced of his own righteousness - and Scripture does not soften the record of what he did in its name. He hunted down Christians, dragged men and women from their...
Seven Witnesses to the Sacredness of Human Life in the Womb
Dr. Mark Creech Director of Government Relations Return America RevMarkCreech.org Few issues in our day are as emotionally charged as the question of life in the womb. Nevertheless, the sanctity of human life is not simply a pro-life descriptor. It is not, at its...
When Truth is Under Attack: Why the Supreme Court Must Protect Women’s Sports
Rev. Mark Creech RevMarkCreech.org On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court heard more than three hours of arguments in two landmark cases - Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. - cases that will shape the future of women’s sports, parental trust, and the...
When a Christian Leader Falls: Truth, Humility, and the Way of Christ
Rev. Mark Creech RevMarkCreech.org When news breaks that a Christian leader has fallen into serious sin, the Church is immediately confronted with a grave responsibility: to speak truth without cruelty, to uphold holiness without abandoning mercy, and to pursue...
When God Entered the Womb: Why Human Life Is Sacred
By Dr. Mark Creech Director of Government Relations, Return America RevMarkCreech.org Few issues in our day are as emotionally charged as the question of life in the womb. Yet the sanctity of human life is not merely a pro-life descriptor, nor is it grounded primarily...
Local Leader Presses for Action on Sexually Explicit Content in Davidson County Schools
by Dr. Mark Creech Director of Government Relations Return America A growing grassroots effort to protect children from sexually explicit and age-inappropriate material in public school libraries took center stage this week before the Davidson County Board of...
A Text Message That Tells Our National Story
by Rev. Mark Creech RevMarkCreech.org What is tearing this country apart is not merely politics. It is something far deeper, far older, and far more consequential. We are witnessing a moral rupture. Recently, a man informed a friend of mine — by text message — that he...
It’s Time for the American Church to Stop ‘Dithering’ About Faith
by Annie Holmquist, Guest Columnist RevMarkCreech.org For years, it was not uncommon for everything related to Christianity, religion, and traditional values to be scorned and rejected as something whose time had come and gone. That attitude, however, seems to be...
North Carolina Affirms Biological Reality and Protects Women, Children Under HB 805
Dr. Mark Creech Director of Government Relations Return America This week, a key section of House Bill 805 – Prevent Sexual Exploitation/Women and Minors officially took effect in North Carolina, marking a significant milestone for the protection of women, children,...