The State’s Gas Tax: When Even Doing Good Is Suspect
by Dr. Mark CreechDirector of Government RelationsReturn AmericaNorth Carolina lawmakers returned to Raleigh Wednesday and overwhelmingly approved legislation to suspend the state's gasoline tax through the end of November. With families struggling to make ends meet...
HB 328 Update: The House Needs to Act
Take Action: Return America is asking you to contact your State Representativeby Dr. Mark CreechDirector of Government RelationsReturn AmericaNorth Carolina lawmakers still have an important decision to make about intoxicating hemp products, which are widely available...
For an Old Law, It Is Making a Lot of News
by Rev. Mark CreechRevMarkCreech.orgFormer NASCAR driver Jennifer Jo Cobb recently learned just how costly North Carolina’s alienation-of-affection and criminal-conversation laws can be. A Davidson County jury found Cobb liable in a lawsuit filed by Tracey Hughes, who...
When History Cools the Anger: Will Trump Be Judged Differently Someday?
by Rev. Mark CreechRevMarkCreech.orgHistory sometimes views a president differently than the people who lived through his presidency. Abraham Lincoln certainly knew what it meant to be despised. During the 1864 campaign, he was called a despot, liar, buffoon, usurper,...
Did You Know Voters Will Decide on Three Changes to NC’s Constitution This Election?
by Dr. Mark CreechDirector of Government RelationsReturn America When North Carolinians vote this November, most people will naturally focus on the candidates. They will vote for members of Congress, state lawmakers, judges, county officials, school board members, and...
What J.D. Greear Gets Right, and What His Christian Nationalism Argument Misses
by Rev. Mark CreechRevMarkCreech.org J.D. Greear recently wrote an article for The Gospel Coalition titled “Why I’m Not a Christian Nationalist.” I think Christians will agree with many points in the article. The government should not decide who is a genuine...
When Christian Teaching Turned on the Jews
by Rev. Mark CreechRevMarkCreech.org Few events in human history are more horrifying than the Holocaust. Six million Jews were murdered under Nazi rule, not for anything they had done, but because they were Jews. Men, women, children, entire families, and communities...
Will Opportunity Scholarships Cost Christian Schools Their Freedom
by Dr. Mark CreechDirector of Government RelationsReturn America Some Christian school leaders are uneasy about North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. Their concern is easy to understand. What happens if a future legislature requires schools that admit...
Seven Lies America Believes, and the Ancient Lie Behind Them All
by Rev. Mark CreechRevMarkCreech.org America has always had its sins. No generation has had a monopoly on virtue, and nostalgia can make us forget how badly earlier generations failed. Human nature has not changed. Pride, greed, lust, cruelty, dishonesty, and unbelief...
The Bullet, the Hatred, and the Cross
by Rev. Mark CreechRevMarkCreech.org A year has passed since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, but the spirit that fueled such violence has not died with him. On September 10, 2025, Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University. Whatever one thought...