North Carolina’s Efforts to Confront the Hemp Loophole: A Legislative Overview
Dr. Mark H. Creech Return America RevMarkCreech.org In 2018, Congress passed the federal Farm Bill, which legalized hemp nationwide as long as it contained no more than 0.3 percent Delta-9 THC, the main psychoactive compound in marijuana. But that narrow definition...
When Shepherds Sip from the World’s Cup
by Rev. Mark Creech RevMarkCreech.org Not long ago, a promotional image circulated online showing two well-known clergymen seated across from one another in leather chairs, glasses of whiskey in hand, captured mid-toast. It came from a Canon Press program where Pastor...
Are We Dressing to the Lowest Common Denominator?
Guest Columnist: Annie Holmquist RevMarkCreech.org A while back, a married couple asked for the time of the morning service at my church, promising to show up the following Sunday. They did, and enjoyed the service, but an observation by the wife surprised me....
Horror of Horrors: Seven Greatest Hauntings of the Human Heart
by Rev. Mark H. CreechRevMarkCreech.org The season of ghosts and goblins is upon us, and people decorate their homes with images of the haunted and the macabre. But the truth is, the most terrifying hauntings aren’t found in old graveyards or abandoned houses. They...
Final Week in Raleigh: No Veto Overrides, Congressional Map, Medicaid Bill, and Budget Deadlock
By Dr. Mark Creech Return America Lawmakers reconvened in Raleigh this week, Monday through Wednesday (October 20–23), to conduct the people’s business. Although potential action on several vetoed measures was calendared, no legislation for veto overrides was taken up...
The Thunder Still Belongs to God
By Rev. Mark CreechRevMarkCreech.org When I was a boy, my grandparents and others of their generation taught me something few children hear today. If a thunderstorm arose, we were to find a quiet place in the house, sit still, and show reverence, for the Lord was...
Help Yourself: A Forgotten American Creed
By Rev. Mark CreechRevMarkCreech.org In his book How to Help Yourself, the late Robert J. Hastings tells a charming story from his boyhood during the Great Depression. It was the summer of 1930, and Herbert Hoover was in the White House. Across America, fear and want...
Lawmakers Will Return to Raleigh Amid Budget Stalemate and Key Veto Overrides
By Dr. Mark CreechReturn America North Carolina lawmakers will reconvene in Raleigh this Monday, October 20th, but expectations for major legislative breakthroughs on the state budget remain subdued. The state continues to operate without a finalized 2025–2027 budget,...
Don’t Privatize Liquor Sales – That Error Would Cost the State Dearly
By Rev. Mark H. CreechRevMarkCreech.org North Carolina lawmakers will soon return to Raleigh, and once again, whispers of privatizing liquor sales are echoing through the halls of the General Assembly. The idea isn’t new. Every few years, someone suggests that the...
When the Seas Are Heaving: Why Christians Must Reengage the Culture
By Rev. Mark CreechRevMarkCreech.org “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” — Matthew 5:6 (KJV) Jesus’ words from the Sermon on the Mount cut across every generation. Righteousness is everything right in its truest...