Rev. Barber’s March and the Redefinition of Christian Morality
By Dr. Mark Creech Director of Government Relations Return America In February, a highly publicized march will begin in Wilson, North Carolina, and head toward Raleigh, culminating in rallies and demonstrations timed to coincide with the start of early voting. Led by...
Are You Backsliding? Warning Signs We’d Rather Ignore
By Rev. Mark Creech, D.H.L. RevMarkCreech.org The Bible does not define backsliding with a single dictionary-style verse. Instead, it defines it through repeated descriptions, images, and spiritual outcomes - most clearly in the Old Testament, and then illustrated...
What Mary Slessor Knew About Compassion That We Have Forgotten
Why Empathy Must Be Governed by Truth to Heal a Nation by Rev. Mark Creech RevMarkCreech.org Empathy is widely celebrated in our public life. We are told it should guide our politics, shape our policies, and soften our judgments. To lack empathy is considered a moral...
When State Lines Decide Life and Death
How Abortion Policy in Neighboring States is Reshaping North Carolina By Dr. Mark Creech Director of Government Relations Return America When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, it did not outlaw abortion nationwide. Instead, it returned the...
Peace: What Marching Buddhist Monks Get Wrong
by Rev. Mark Creech RevMarkCreech In recent weeks, North Carolinians have watched an unusual sight unfold along our highways and through our towns: Buddhist monks walking in silence, clad in saffron robes, marching for peace. Their discipline is striking. Their...
Holy Terror: Protesters Desecrate Church in Anti-ICE Rampage
by Dr. Sam Currin RevMarkCreech.org In the latest episode of progressive barbarism masquerading as moral virtue, a mob of anti-ICE leftist rioters recently stormed Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota—right in the middle of Sunday worship. They disrupted the service,...
Why North Carolina Still Protects Marriage
by Dr. Mark Creech Director of Government Relations Return America RevMarkCreech.org Earlier this month, national media outlets - from CBS News to The New York Times - descended on an unusual legal story originating not in Washington, D.C., but in North Carolina....
From the Wilderness to the Threshold of Reform
by Rev. Mark Creech RevMarkCreech.org For more than twenty-five years, I have addressed alcohol policy in North Carolina and across the nation. During much of that time, I often felt like John the Baptist in the wilderness — warning, pleading, and reasoning with a...
When Zeal Becomes Persecution
Rev. Mark Creech RevMarkCreech.org Before he became the apostle Paul, Saul of Tarsus was a man utterly convinced of his own righteousness - and Scripture does not soften the record of what he did in its name. He hunted down Christians, dragged men and women from their...
Seven Witnesses to the Sacredness of Human Life in the Womb
Dr. Mark Creech Director of Government Relations Return America RevMarkCreech.org Few issues in our day are as emotionally charged as the question of life in the womb. Nevertheless, the sanctity of human life is not simply a pro-life descriptor. It is not, at its...