By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 24, 2023 In the spring of 1994, the Associated Press reported that Sweden’s defense ministry determined a Soviet submarine had violated Sweden’s territorial waters. High-tech buoys had detected suspicious noises, which prompted their military to start a submarine hunt in the Baltic Sea. This wasn’t the first […]
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What Will Tar Heel Lawmakers Do About Abortion? What Can You Do?
By CAL Staff and Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 24, 2023 What will Tar Heel lawmakers do about abortion? Will the state remain an abortion haven, with women from more restrictive states flocking to North Carolina for the fatal procedure? Or will legislators stand for life and further restrict abortion now that Roe […]
Medical Marijuana Bill Passes Committees, Heads to Senate Floor: It Will Harm Families, Opponents Warn
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League February 24, 2023 A bill that would legalize medicinal marijuana in North Carolina passed three Senate committees this week, even as speakers warned that its legalization is opposed by major medical and scientific organizations and would have a detrimental impact on the state. “There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence, but […]
Bipartisan Resolution in Congress Introduced to Get Billy Graham Statue Project Moving
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League February 24, 2023 It’s been more than seven years since North Carolina lawmakers voted to replace a statue of former governor Charles B. Aycock in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall with one of evangelist Billy Graham, and five years since Graham’s death made him eligible for the memorial. And […]
Revelation Chapter 8: The Eagle of Woes
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 17, 2023 In the book Storm Warning, the late Dr. Billy Graham writes about a group of people having a “hurricane party” before Hurricane Camille. Graham says the winds were strong and howling outside the classy Richelieu Apartments in Pass Christian, Mississippi, when Police Chief Jerry Peralta […]
Science Does not Support Medical Marijuana, Creech tells Senators: ‘Smoked Marijuana is not Medicine’
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League February 17, 2023 The head of the Christian Action League testified to a North Carolina Senate committee this week that neither science nor common sense supports the legalization of medical marijuana and that by passing a proposed bill, legislators would be performing an “end-run around the practice and the […]
N.C. House, Senate Pass Bills Closing Church Security ‘Loophole’
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League February 17, 2023 Legislation that would close a loophole in North Carolina law and allow churches to exercise their Second Amendment rights on their own property passed the state House and Senate this week and could be on its way to becoming law. By a vote of 77-43, the […]
Two More Local GOP Chapters Censure Burr and Tillis Over Marriage Vote
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League February 16, 2023 At least two more local chapters of the Republican Party — those in Cabarrus and Davie counties — have passed resolutions to censure former U.S. Sen. Richard Burr and Sen. Thom Tillis for abandoning the GOP platform on marriage and voting for the misnamed Respect for […]
I Treat People with Gambling Disorder – More Young Men Are Betting on Sports
By Tori Horn Christian Action League February 16, 2023 As a therapist who treats people with gambling problems , I’ve noticed a shift over the past few years – not only in the profile of the typical clients I treat, but also in the way their gambling problems develop. In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court […]
Revelation Chapter 8: Trumpets Announce Something Bad is About to Happen
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 10, 2023 These are times of significant anxiety. Every day tens of thousands of people feel like something bad is about to happen. This free-floating worry is vague and uncertain, and it troubles them deeply. PsychReel, a group which is made up of psychologists and other mental […]