Peace: What Marching Buddhist Monks Get Wrong

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...
From the Wilderness to the Threshold of Reform

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

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...