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Outlawing Slavery, Licensing Bondage
How Vice Profits from the Erosion of Freedom By Rev. Mark Creech RevMarkCreech.org America rightly congratulates itself on having abolished slavery. With the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, the nation declared that neither slavery nor involuntary...
Even the New York Times Now Admits It: America Has a Marijuana Problem
by Rev. Mark Creech RevMarkCreech.org When The New York Times admits it was wrong, the nation should pay attention. For years, the Times served as one of the loudest institutional cheerleaders for marijuana legalization. In 2014, its editorial board declared federal...
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...
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...
When God Entered the Womb: Why Human Life Is Sacred
By 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. Yet the sanctity of human life is not merely a pro-life descriptor, nor is it grounded primarily...
North Carolina Affirms Biological Reality and Protects Women, Children Under HB 805
Dr. Mark Creech Director of Government Relations Return America This week, a key section of House Bill 805 – Prevent Sexual Exploitation/Women and Minors officially took effect in North Carolina, marking a significant milestone for the protection of women, children,...
The NC Education Lottery: A Moral Failure and a Broken Promise
Rev. Mark Creech RevMarkCreech.org North Carolina’s Education Lottery is now exposed - not merely as a failed policy, but as a spiritual and moral deception. A new audit shows that while lottery sales surged to $6.586 billion in 2025, the share returned to education...
Marijuana’s Moment: Why We Should Be Alarmed and Pray
by Dr. Mark CreechReturn America This week, marijuana once again surged to the center of national debate after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances...