By Hunter Hines Christian Action League December 16, 2021 Another North Carolina County has approved a pro-life resolution. On Thursday, December 9, Randolph County Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution that states that life begins at conception. The resolution had been before the Board since its November meeting. Yadkin, Wilkes, Davie, and Davidson counties passed similar […]
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We’re All on this Train Together
By Jeff Minick Intellectual Takeout December 15, 2021 “All aboard!” North Carolina writer Anna Raglan was delighted to find that Amtrak’s conductors still called out these words to passengers before departing the station. In her new travelogue The Train From Greenville, Raglan, a kind and wise friend of mine, describes […]
NC Parents Pushback Against Sexually Explicit Books in Public Schools
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League December 10, 2021 A group of 10 Wake County parents seeking to protect schoolchildren from explicit sexual content in library books have filed a criminal complaint against the state’s largest school system for distributing “obscene and pornographic material.” Theirs is one of a growing number of campaigns across the […]
CAL Legislative Wrap-Up Report for 2021
By CAL Staff Christian Action League December 11, 2021 North Carolina lawmakers adopted an adjournment resolution on November 30, calling for an end on December 10 to what is commonly called the “long session” of the 2021 – 2022 Legislative Biennium. Lawmakers, however, are expected to return on December 30 and address several bills, none […]
Patches, the Cat, and Christmas Eve
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League December 10, 2021 Growing up at my house, Christmas was exceedingly special. On Christmas Eve, everyone in the family came together to exchange gifts. Present were Mama and Daddy, my younger sister, Melissa, Shug (my paternal grandmother) and Grandaddy, Big Mama (my maternal grandmother) and Papa Gale (my […]
Pushing the Pause Button on Profanity
By Annie Holmquist The Epoch Times December 7, 2021 While out on an evening walk in a local park, I heard a fellow walker coming down the path behind me, talking on his phone. His tone was even-keeled and calm … but it seemed like every fifth word was an expletive, uttered in the same […]
The Value of the Ordinary Life – the Ordinary American
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League December 3, 2021 In a sermon about Isaac, Abraham’s son, Brian L. Harbor sited a book that Malcomb Forbes wrote in 1990, titled, What Happened to Their Kids? It’s a book about the children of renowned individuals. “The thrust of the book,” says Harbour, who himself is a […]
N.C. County Passes Resolution Supporting Prohibition of Abortions After Six Weeks
By Hunter Hines Christian Action League December 2, 2021 The Dispatch reports that Davidson County Commissioners passed a resolution that supports prohibiting abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The resolution, which passed unanimously on November 23, endorses the passage of HB 31 – Detected Heartbeat/Prohibit Abortion by the North Carolina General Assembly. This year, HB […]
Davidson County Sheriff Does His Job – Shuts Down 34 Sweepstakes Parlors
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League December 1, 2021 Davidson County Sheriff Richie Simmons is putting operators of sweepstakes parlors on notice: the businesses are illegal in North Carolina and not welcome in his jurisdiction. After investigating for over a year to verify what was happening in these places of business, his officers recently shut […]
What You Need to Know About North Carolina Abortion Law
By Paul “Skip” Stam, Attorney at Law Christian Action League November 30, 2021 For 49 years, since the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v Wade, it has been legal in North Carolina for a doctor to abort the child of a consenting mother, up to birth, for almost any reason. A statute limiting abortions […]