By L.A. Williams Christian Action League October 16, 2020 Can pro-life evangelicals justify casting a ballot for presidential candidate Joe Biden, who not only wants to enshrine Roe V. Wade into federal law, but also wants to end the Hyde Amendment, which limits the use of taxpayer funds for abortions? Can Christians proclaim that they […]
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Embarrassed by Trump’s Debate Performance? Don’t Be!
By Rev. Mark CreechChristian Action LeagueOctober 2, 2020 Most of us thought that the debate between President Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden would include fireworks. Still, few of us anticipated the cage fight of indictments and repetitive insults that ensued. Immediately afterward, when scrolling through Facebook on my cell phone, I wasn’t surprised […]
Congress to Vote on Marijuana Legalization in Two Weeks, Tell Your Rep. to Vote, No!
By Hunter HinesChristian Action LeagueSeptember 3, 2020 The media, as well as various activist groups, are reporting that the U.S. House, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is planning to vote on the legalization of marijuana this month. The MORE Act (Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act) would decriminalize cannabis convictions, as well as expunge most […]
Five Speakers with Strong NC Ties Give Powerful Remarks during the RNC
By M.H. CavanaughChristian Action LeagueAugust 28, 2020 This week, five great Americans with strong North Carolina ties, spoke at the Republican National Convention. Each one provided much-needed remarks to a national audience. They spoke of religious liberty, the need for perseverance and faith in the American way, the power of peaceful protests for racial justice, […]
Prominent Black NC Bishop Patrick Wooden says Kamala Harris ‘Ain’t Good for Black Folk’
By Leonardo BlairThe Christian PostAugust 20, 2020 Firebrand North Carolina Bishop Patrick Wooden Sr., of the conservative Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, slammed newly minted Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris as “ain’t good for black folk” in a politically charged sermon Sunday. In his impassioned sermon during which he took aim at […]
NCAE Files Lawsuit to Eliminate Opportunity Scholarships for Low-Income Children
By Graham McDowellChristian Action LeagueJuly 31. 2020 Monday, the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) filed a lawsuit to eliminate the Opportunity Scholarships program. In 2013, a Republican-led legislature created the Opportunity Scholarships to provide students from low and middle-income families with up to $4,200 per year to attend a private school. As many as […]
‘And We Should Shrink from Sacrificing a Few Hundred Thousand?’
By Rev. Mark CreechChristian Action LeagueMay 29, 2020 In his classic work, Christianity and Communism, which was first printed in 1948 and later revised in 1960, Christian social ethicist, John C. Bennet, said that there is nothing Communists aren’t willing to do to spread the Communist Revolution. Bennett quotes from Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon. […]
The Great American Divide and Our Loss of National Identity
By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League February 7, 2020 A few months ago, I was reading from my signed copy of W. A. Swanberg’s biography, “First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter.” It’s a marvelous account of events that led up to the firing on Fort Sumter, the act that represented the North-South quarrel […]