By L.A. Williams Christian Action League January 7, 2021 Samaritan’s Purse is carrying out its mission of providing “Christian relief to a hurting world” much closer to home than usual these days, serving patients suffering from COVID-19 in Lenoir. Headquartered in nearby Boone, the nondenominational evangelical organization led by Franklin Graham erected a 30-bed emergency […]
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Sen. Thom Tillis Joins Resolution in Defense of the Free Exercise of Religion
By M.H. Cavanaugh Christian Action League December 22, 2020 Last Friday, North Carolina’s U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R) joined a resolution, led by Florida’s U.S. Senator Rick Scott. The resolution defends the First Amendment, more specifically, the right to exercise one’s faith freely. “While this is a hard time for many, North Carolinians should still […]
Big Tek Nazis
By Dave Eden, Eden Political Cartoons “COVID 19 sounds a lot like an evil Santa Claus, who works in reverse. He sees you when you’re sleeping and not “woke” to the new norm. If you’re naughty and don’t wear your mask, observe social distancing, obsessively wash your hands, and avoid gatherings of specific sizes, then […]
Virginia Governor: No Government Should Diminish What God’s Economy Freely Affords.
By Dr. Mark Creech Christian Action League December 18, 2020 I live in the Tar Heel state, the great state of North Carolina. My wife, Kim, hails from Norfolk, Virginia. So over our 41 years of marriage, I’ve come to love the Old Dominion State. Only days after a lawsuit was filed against coronavirus restrictions […]
‘Churches Should Suspend Services During Pandemic.’ I Respectfully Dissent!
By Dr. Mark Creech Christian Action League December 4, 2020 For the last few months, I’ve been on the telephone with hundreds of pastors, asking them how their churches are navigating the Coronavirus Crisis. The stories of low attendance are disturbing, despite churches employing health protocols to keep people as safe as possible. Many are […]
Multi-Campus North Carolina Church Re-opens after Coronavirus Outbreak
By Ryan Foley The Christian Post November 3, 2020 A multi-campus evangelical Christian church has reopened its doors after coming to an agreement with local officials in North Carolina, who had previously ordered it to close its buildings in Mecklenburg County following a coronavirus outbreak involving nearly 200 people. Mecklenburg County had earlier issued an Abatement […]
The New Feudalism
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Guest Columnist Christian Action League October 27, 2020 On February 28, the idea of locking down and smashing economies and human rights the world over was unthinkable to most of us but lustily imagined by intellectuals hoping to conduct a new social/political experiment. On that day, New York Times reporter Donald […]
CAL Legislative Wrap-Up for 2020
CAL StaffChristian Action LeagueAugust 28, 2020 It was Plato who once said, “Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods…And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and a fool.” The Christian Action League’s primary purpose as a public-policy organization is […]
Corporate Public Worship is a Must, Even during a Pandemic
By Rev. Mark CreechChristian Action LeagueJuly 17, 2020 One of the most significant passages of Scripture is one in which Luke calls attention to a habitual practice of Jesus. Luke says that when our Lord came to Nazareth, His hometown, He went to the synagogue, “as His custom was, on the Sabbath day” (Luke 4:16). […]
URGENT: Christian Action League Seeks Help Amid Coronarvirus Crisis
By Dr. Mark CreechChristian Action LeagueJune 17, 2020 Dear Friend of the Christian Action League, The effects of the coronavirus and N.C. Governor Roy Cooper’s lockdown is still with us. Although a federal judge handed down a decision, which says churches in North Carolina may now open their doors again to more than ten worshippers, […]