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...
The Promise, the Reality, and the Lie
by Rev. Mark CreechRevMarkCreech.orgIt was around this time of year, twenty-one years ago, that North Carolina came within a single vote of rejecting a state-operated lottery. I thought about that recently and remember it quite well. On August 30, 2005, I left my home...
The Socialist Threat Is No Longer on the Fringe
by Rev. Mark CreechRevMarkCreech.org Democratic socialism is having a moment in American politics. That does not mean America is about to become a socialist nation or that the Democratic Party as a whole has embraced socialism. However, developments over the past year...
You Have Been Warned
by Rev. Mark CreechRevMarkCreech.org It is said that what stirred William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, to become such a fiery evangelist was the challenging indictment of a lecturer known for attacking the Christian faith. The lecturer said: “If I believed...
When Sympathy for the Killer Silences the Victims
by Rev. Mark CreechRevMarkCreech.orgThree children are dead. Cora was five years old. Dawson was three years old. Callan was only eight months old. Their mother, Lindsay Clancy, has acknowledged killing them at their Massachusetts home in January 2023. The central...