By Dr. Mark Creech Last month, the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force released a report that said youth suicides increased more than one-third between 2013 and 2014. It said that 46 children died by their own hands last year, 34 the year before, and 23 in 2010. The increase has experts worried, and they […]
Rev. Creech's Commentary
Guest Column: My Pastor Can Beat Up Your Pastor
By Mike Adams I served as a pastor for twenty years before becoming executive director of the Christian Action League. I know the excuses and tactics clergy often use to avoid engaging the culture for Christ’s sake. They say they’re staying focused on winning people and growing the church, but more often than not they’re […]
Barber and Tyson Excoriate Rally Participants
By Dr. Mark Creech Two weeks ago on a Saturday afternoon, approximately 10,000 people attended the “We Stand With God” rally on the Halifax Mall behind North Carolina’s legislative building. Former governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee headlined the event. Other speakers included North Carolina lieutenant governor, Dan Forrest, apologist and author, Alex […]
Marijuana Legalization: Throwing Gas on a Fire
By Dr. Mark Creech Proponents for the legalization of recreational marijuana have said over and again that marijuana is less harmful to society than alcohol and tobacco. Thus, it makes no sense; it’s even hypocritical to keep it illegal, they say. To argue marijuana is harmless goes against some of the most reputable studies from […]
‘A World that is not Yet, But Ought to Be’
By Dr. Mark Creech In the great model prayer that our Lord gave to his disciples, we are provided with perhaps the most perfect desire in a prayer that one could ever entertain for the world. In the short prayer, Jesus prayed, “Our Father, which art in heaven…Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on […]
Marriage, a Wolf, and Little Red Riding Hood
By Dr. Mark Creech Since I was a boy, I have always loved the literary genre of fables – fictional stories featuring animals with human qualities meant to illustrate some moral maxim. Like parables, such stories are never intended to convey meaning in every detail. Yet, much of it may draw, even in unsuspecting ways, […]
Guest Column: Obama’s Unbelievable Response to Oregon Shooting
By Dave Kistler Yesterday, a tragedy once again occurred in America! Once again, as has been the case several times in the last several years, a rural all-American town’s serenity was torn apart by an act of unspeakable violence! While my heart and prayers go out to the residents of the beautiful town that is […]
Pope and Netanyahu Point America to Her Religious Moorings
By Dr. Mark Creech Pope Francis’ historic visit to America has the entire nation a-buzz with energy. The news media has covered his every move. Social media is on fire with comments about him. I am not a member of the Catholic Church. I am a Protestant, a Baptist to be more specific. I reject […]
Jonah: An Angry Prophet without Compassion
By Dr. Mark Creech The story of Jonah is one of the most meaningful texts in the Bible for me. It tells not only of the great miracle of a man being swallowed by a great fish and living to tell about it, but it also serves to remind us of the attitudes we should […]
Stop Just Looking On and Do Something
By Dr. Mark Creech In 1993, freelance photojournalist Kevin Carter from South Africa went to cover the civil strife in famine stricken Sudan. After his flight touched down in the village of Ayod, Carter captured an iconic image of a starving little girl, her face and body bowed low in the dirt, with a vulture […]