By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 24, 2023 In the spring of 1994, the Associated Press reported that Sweden’s defense ministry determined a Soviet submarine had violated Sweden’s territorial waters. High-tech buoys had detected suspicious noises, which prompted their military to start a submarine hunt in the Baltic Sea. This wasn’t the first […]
C.S. Lewis
Revelation Chapter 4: The Rapture Question
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League September 23, 2022 C. S. Lewis wrote, “The doctrine of the second coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives, Donne’s question, ‘What if this present were the world’s last […]
Trust the Science and Skip the Gender-Neutral Toys and Clothes
By Annie Holmquist Intellectual Takeout May 6, 2022 Stay-at-home father Jay Deitcher prided himself on “blurring gender lines,” a trait he tried hard to pass along to his own young son. So he hid the kiddie clothing that sported footballs and instead gave his son a baby doll to push in a stroller on their […]
Breaking Up Is Easy to Do (If You Shack Up First)
By Annie Holmquist Intellectual Takeout February 15, 2022 “Kim Kardashian is here!” my friend said in an excited stage whisper. Pulling my eyes off the major-league baseball game on the field below, I gave her a confused look. It was 2011, and I was still blissfully unaware of the reality TV star and her family. […]
The Unique Contribution of Christianity to the World, ‘Grace’
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League December 22, 2021 In What’s So Amazing About Grace, author Philip Yancey tells the story of a conference held in England on comparative religions. A debate broke out among those attending about the unique contribution of Christianity to the religions of the world. The debate went on with […]
The Conscience Bears Witness
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League August 13, 2021 Now and then, we read in the news about some fellow who has a fit of conscience and confesses to a cold case crime. A 2012 story in HuffPost reported that James Washington from Nashville, Tennessee, already incarcerated for unrelated crimes, suffered a heart attack […]