By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “We understand that every effort, whether personal or corporate, that leaves out the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ, that doesn’t make God central to the need, is no solution but just lipstick on a pig. Whether it be education, or science, or psychology, or any kind of social […]
Socialism
The False Hope of Socialism: Why It Can Never Succeed
By Rev. Mark CreechChristian Action LeagueSeptember 4, 2020 In her Princeton undergraduate thesis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Elena Kagan, wrote ten years ago: “Through its own internal feuding…the SP [Socialist Party] exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. […]
Pray for America
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “America stands on the brink of disaster. Your freedoms are at stake. The name and character of God are at stake. ‘Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”‘ As never before, we are in desperate need of the forgiving, healing hand of God. Let us join together […]
CAL Dir. Delivers Fiery Message on Rise of Socialism, References Spiritual Significance of 5.1 Earthquake on Sunday
By Hunter HinesChristian Action LeagueAugust 13, 2020 Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League, was the guest minister for the morning worship service at Tar Landing Baptist Church in Jacksonville, NC, last Sunday. Tar Landing is a Southern Baptist congregation affiliated with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and the Onslow […]
Long Live the Declaration of Independence!
By Rev. Mark CreechChristian Action LeagueJuly 3, 2020 In his fascinating book, Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage, Paul Kengor introduces his readers to the English utopian-socialist, Robert Owen. Owen is one of the first among characters during the 19th century who helped lay the foundation for socialist […]
‘And We Should Shrink from Sacrificing a Few Hundred Thousand?’
By Rev. Mark CreechChristian Action LeagueMay 29, 2020 In his classic work, Christianity and Communism, which was first printed in 1948 and later revised in 1960, Christian social ethicist, John C. Bennet, said that there is nothing Communists aren’t willing to do to spread the Communist Revolution. Bennett quotes from Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon. […]
Socialism: Lipstick on a Pig
By Dr. Mark H. Creech Christian Action League March 6, 2020 During the 1980s, North Carolina’s U.S. Senator, the late Jesse Helms, wrote an interesting article about America’s drift from her religious and political moorings. Helms wrote at that time something powerfully astute. He said, “It is debatable at just what point the United States […]
Bernie Sanders Has Done it Again
By Annie Holmquist Christian Action League March 6, 2020 In an age when old, rich, white men are heavily maligned by the Left, it’s rather remarkable that Sanders has risen to such prominence in not one, but two presidential contests. Given Joe Biden’s lead in delegates, Sanders may not win the nomination; nevertheless, it’s hard […]
Super Tuesday: Victories and Lessons for N.C. Conservative Voters
By L.A. Williams & M.H. Cavanaugh Christian Action League March 5, 2020 Tar Heel voters gave Joe Biden quite the gift in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. The former vice president walked away from North Carolina with another 110 delegates in his quest for the White House. Despite Biden’s Super Tuesday sweep of Virginia, North Carolina, and […]
Socialism, No Worries, Gonna Work Great
By Dave Eden, Eden Political Cartoons “The church of Jesus Christ has traditionally condemned socialism because the Scriptures teach that private property is a God-given right. Economic systems perpetuating or constructing dependence, while also rewarding sloth, strike at the very heart of what it means to be a human being. Both socialism and communism suppress […]