About Marsha West

Marsha West is the owner and managing editor of Christian Research Network, Apprising Ministries (the late Ken Silva’s blog) and On Solid Rock Resources. She is also co-founder of Berean Research. For two decades Marsha was the owner and managing editor of Email Brigade website as well as the EMB News Report, a bi-weekly email report for conservative people of faith. For many years Marsha was a regular contributor to several blogs including CRN, RenewAmerica, News With Views and Web Commantary as well as popular websites she no longer endorses: American Family Association, Worldview Weekend, Stand Up For The Truth, The Christian Post and Christian Headlines. Although Marsha still blogs, her primary focus is CRN. Marsha also writes Research Papers (White Papers) on various topics that are published on CRN, Berean Research and On Solid Rock Resources. Visit Marsha’s other sites: On Solid Rock Resources https://www.onsolidrockresources.com/ Apprising Ministries http://apprising.org Marsha’s RenewAmerica Column http://renewamerica.com/columns/mwest Marsha’s Facebook Page http://facebook.com/marsha.west.77

GLAAD Study: 41% of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season

(Protestia) A recent report from GLAAD reveals that 41% of the LGBTQ characters, and 61% of transgender characters currently on TV shows will not be returning next season.

  • Across primetime scripted broadcast, primetime scripted cable, and scripted streaming original series that premiered a new season between June 1, 2024 and May 31, 2025, GLAAD counted 489 LGBTQ characters in total. This is a 4% increase and 21 additional characters from 468 characters counted in the previous season. Continue reading

The Real Gulf of America

…Democratic Party’s embrace of progressive policies is causing vast harm.  An editorial this week in The Wall Street Journal analyzes the billion-dollar government program fraud in progressive Minnesota. Here’s a very true statement from the Journal. “Democrats won’t acknowledge fraud because they want more Americans on the dole.  Welfare is central to their business model.”

(Bill O’Reilly) Mr. Trump has done this to send a message: America is the pinnacle.  This is a power display for all who enter the White House. The President has been designing structures since he was a teenager.  Other than golf, building stuff is his chief diversion. Continue reading

The Giant Awakes: The Worldwide Left Is Losing Its Grip

(Eric Florack – PJ Media)  Today is Saturday, December 7, 2025.

Today in History:

2004: Hamid Karzai takes office as president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.

1787: Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution.

1732: The Royal Opera House opens its doors in London.

Birthdays today include: Larry Bird, singer-songwriter Tom Waits, and Noam Chomsky.

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On September 13, 2001, I said:

It is recorded in our history books that when he looked down at the ship full of smiling, victorious faces… faces of his flyers, just having returned from Pearl Harbor, Japanese Fleet Admiral Yamamoto was quiet, pensive, even apprehensive.  Continue reading

Kirk Cameron Denies ‘Eternal Conscious Torment,’ Is Now An Annihilationist?

(Protestia) Former actor-turned-evangelist Kirk Cameron has revealed that he no longer believes in ‘eternal conscious torment’ for the wicked, which he suggests is “cruel and unusual punishment.” Instead, he revealed he leans strongly towards annihilationism, saying: “It fits the character of God.”

Appearing with his son on Episode 86 of the Kirk Cameron Show, he argues:

“The Bible, particularly in the Old Testament, never talks about the eternality, immortality of the wicked souls. The only ones who have immortal souls are those who are granted eternal life. And that’s only believers. Continue reading

Erika Kirk and the Bimbo-ization of the Feminist Movement

“Once again, all the good, committed feminists are on the wrong side of history. In their rush to play partisan politics, they’ve sold out the female victim. Just like before. It’s horrible mismanagement of their brand. They’re acting like brainless, superficial, sex-obsessed, gossip-mongering hypocrites.”

(Scott Pinsker – PJ Media) Before the #MeToo movement went (badly) off the rails, it made some very valid — and long overdue — points about predatory male behavior: Our wives, sisters, and daughters shouldn’t be subjected to unwanted sexual advances in the workplace. There is something weird, gross, and unsettling when a 60-something CEO has an affair with his 19-year-old secretary. Continue reading

John MacArthur on Roman Catholicism, Billy Graham, and ‘Evangelical’ Inclusivism

Republished 12/05/2025

Ken Silva posted this short piece back in 2012 to warn the Church about evangelical inclusivism. “There are those who feel that reporting on issues like this brings pleasure, well, it truly doesn’t,” Ken wrote, clearly disheartened over apostate evangelical leaders he once respected. “Billy Graham was always someone I had looked to as an example and someone I greatly admired in Christ. That is until troubling quotes and questionable associations he’d been making through the years kept coming up in research. Some of what you will see here has been available in different formats but it seemed good in the Lord to put it together in a more accessible form.”

And he did just that. Here’s his piece: Continue reading

9Marks of Wokeness

As recently as 2019, Mark Dever was openly claiming that “single-issue voting” (abortion) has been one of the greatest banes to racial unity in the United States,” and that because pro-life presidents have not ended abortion, black voters should be free to vote pro-choice if they believe the candidate will “help my people and my community.”

(David Morrill – Protestia) Over the past several weeks, a curious narrative has been circulating on X: that 9Marks—Mark Dever, Jonathan Leeman, and their network—was never woke. According to defenders, claims to the contrary are slander, exaggerations, or selective memory…. Continue reading

Dan Bongino Wonders Why the FBI Seemingly Stopped Looking for the J6 Bomb Suspect Under Biden

“Coles was apprehended without any new evidence. There were no new witnesses or tips. Everything used to nab him was already collected by the bureau.” 

(Matt Vespa – Townhall) Brian Cole is in custody. He’s the individual who allegedly planted pipe bombs at the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican National Committees on January 5, 2021. Despite reports from The Blaze, which appears to have erroneously accused a female former Capitol Police officer of being the culprit, this suspect is a man, he’s black, a leftist, and from a well-to-do family…. Continue reading

Gauntlet Thrown: The Charlie Kirk Show Dissects Candace Owens’ ‘Evil Lies’ About His Assassination

(Katie Jerkovich – Red State) The producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” Blake Neff, called out podcast host Candace Owens for her “reckless disregard for the truth” and the “evil lies” he said she’s made about the assassination of the late co-founder of Turning Point USA.

In a post and video shared on X, Neff made it clear that the gauntlet has been thrown against Owens and her numerous accusations and lies about things like how Kirk’s friends and his organization allegedly knew and approved of his murder, among many other claims. Continue reading

Michelle Obama Has Produced the Most Important Book of the Century

Photo by Pete Souza

“Good gravy. Were you ever “fascinated” with Michelle Obama’s bare arms? Neither was I. Do you even know anyone who was “fascinated” with Michelle Obama’s bare arms? Neither do I.” 

(Robert Spencer – PJ Media) If they go by what the establishment media says, future ages will regard our lucky times as the days when veritable gods in human form walked among us, and lo, their names were Barack and Michelle Obama. The media is unstinting and unembarrassed in its fawning over the sainted couple, no matter how ludicrous its adulation gets. Continue reading

Presbyterian Church In America Promotes Open Borders Talking Points

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) The Presbyterian Church in America is one of the most influential Evangelical denominations. It is also in a contentious struggle against liberalism, much of it stemming from the influence of Tim Keller. The PCA has had major wins in recent years, but entrenched liberalism has reared its ugly head on numerous occasions in 2025. Most notably, the Mission to North America got exposed for a staffer participating in a Blacks-only church event and the same organization got caught promoting illegal immigration. Mission To North America provides resources and training curriculum to the PCA, so it is a critical institution in Presbyterianism. Continue reading

Evangelicalism Is Infected by Spiritual AIDS

AIDS: Acquired Ignorance of the Doctrines of Scripture

(Don & Joy Veinot, Dying of AIDS – Midwest Christian Outreach) In our 2010 article, Christian Scandal (the good kind) Jonathan Miles rightly pointed out that:

“… distinctly Christian stumbling blocks have been questioned by the Culture Driven Church. Grace and Hell have long been disparaged. Grace has either been watered down into universal salvation or thickened with concepts of good works. Hell has been disparaged by even venerable dons of theology. Evangelism has been abandoned in favor of a social gospel and Brian McClaren’s religious pluralism. And sexual ethics have been simply and quietly ignored in favor of discreet trysts or transformed into political debates. All of this in an effort to remove the skandalons [snares] that offend.” Continue reading

Biden’s Terrorism Exemption: The Taliban Clerks Are Here

“The Biden-Harris administration claimed that they were importing Afghans as refugees who helped the U.S. government, when in reality, officials admitted in documents obtained from litigation that they did not know their identities.”

(Mary Dowling) The Biden administration allowed Taliban in with the Afghan refugees using a terrorism exemption. They also allowed those who committed “heinous crimes.”

The Bidenistas allowed hundreds of allegedly low-level civil servants in the Taliban government to settle in the United States during the evacuation…. Continue reading

If This Is What Motivated the National Guard Shooter, the Blowback Could Be Terrifying

“If the lead turns out to be true, then it means that even Afghan immigrants who are found to have no connection to terrorist activity could still be activated through threats.” 

(Jeff Charles – Townhall) The individual alleged to have shot two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., could have been blackmailed into committing the act by the Taliban.

Federal intelligence agencies are looking into information that a Taliban “hit squad” may have threatened to murder Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s family if he did not carry out the assault, which left one victim dead and the other critically injured, according to The Daily Beast. Continue reading

Tim Keller, Andy Stanley, Francis Collins, and Other Christian Leaders: The Sheep Who Made Friends with the Wolves

“West states that “as the biblical understanding of same-sex relationships became more controversial, [Tim] Keller seemed to avoid talking about the topic as much as possible. When he did discuss the issue . . . [he] could become halting, hesitant, and seemingly embarrassed by the biblical view.” In essence, these Christians have implied that they are better at loving others than God’s Word is; how they handle the approach to the gospel is apparently better than how Romans does…”

(Joshua Parcha – Christ Over All) Although reading classic works on political theology can be helpful in addressing problems of modern Christianity, these classics should also be read in conjunction with contemporary books that address contemporary problems. One of the contemporary issues vexing modern Christianity is that many of its institutional leaders have marred orthodox Christianity by ingratiating themselves with cultural and political elites who reject orthodox Christianity. Helping us understand and address this problem is John G. West’s book Stockholm Syndrome Christianity (2025), which is premised on the analogy of wolves among a flock of sheep….

Instead of getting rid of the wolves, some sheep befriend and ingratiate themselves to these wolves until these favored sheep start getting annoyed at other sheep who want to get rid of the wolves!

As absurd as this sheep-wolves flock story is, this is precisely the image West presents in Stockholm Syndrome Christianity to describe the state of modern Christianity. The wolves are the “anti-Christian secular culture, and the sheep represent Christians who have embraced the assumptions of that culture.” The embrace is so complete that the sheep “are grateful and think the [wolves are] doing something good”; the sheep obstinately believe they are “being loving and kind” by assisting the wolves. View article →

 

Research: Progressive (Social Justice) ‘Christianity’

CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18 such as Tim Keller, Andy Stanley and Francis Collins. 

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NYT to WaPo: You Lied About Hegseth

“In other developing news, I broke out in hives after praising the New York Times.”

(Stephen Green – PJ Media) You remember last week’s Washington Post report, the one with two anonymous administration sources claiming that in September, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered a second missile strike on a drug boat to ensure that any survivors were killed, “EVEN IF THEY’RE BABIES OR PUPPIES!”

I might have made up that last part, but according to a New York Times investigation, WaPo might have made up the whole thing. Continue reading

The Trump Obsession

“My obsession is strengthening the lives of all honest Americans.  I believe Donald Trump, whether you like his style or not, is trying to do that.  Just his record overseas proves my point.  Hostages released, wars averted, favorable trade deals to bolster the U.S. economy.”

(Bill O’Reilly) President Trump has always dominated the room as well as engendering strong reactions, both pro and con.  When I first met him 35 years ago, he was pretty much the same guy he is today.

Back in his business days, Americans could take or leave him.  His celebrity and wealth did not directly affect us.  But today, Donald Trump has great influence over all our lives.  And that has led to obsession. Continue reading

An Ex-Muslim’s Warning to America

“Mirahmadi warns that we’re witnessing a historic sea change. The last election cycle “cemented” the ascendancy of Islamists in politics, she says. Two-hundred-eighty Muslims now occupy offices across all U.S. governmental levels, with six being mayors…neighboring Hamtramck, Michigan, recently became the first American city with an entirely Muslim government.”

(Selwyn Duke – New American) It was in 2015 that Muslim refugee Dr. Mudar Zahran warned of the “soft Islamic conquest of the West.” Zahran was referring to the wave migration affecting Europe, which ultimately saw millions more Muslims enter the Continent…. Continue reading

2025 Ends With the Modern Sexual Revolution in Full Swing

“How ungodly is this, that we, as a nation, are not in the streets livid over this? Where is the righteous fury that once toppled idols and purged the land? This is child abuse cloaked in compassion, a direct assault on the divine ordinance.”

(The Dissenter) We’re ending 2025 with a bang… We have foreign nationals and their leftist allies rising up against American law enforcement and immigration. We have Islamists in our federal government making threats against the American people. We have anti-American and anti-Christian sentiment at its highest levels ever in this nation. And, of course, the modern sexual revolution is in full swing. Continue reading

BREAKING: Trump Nullifies All Biden Autopen Documents

“The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him. I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

(Catherine Salgado – PJ Media) President Donald Trump didn’t take much time off for Thanksgiving, and his latest move is sure to enrage Democrats.

Trump has declared that any document signed by Joe Biden‘s autopen rather than the dementia-befuddled former Meanderer-in-Chief himself is now considered illegitimate and lacking any force or effect…. Continue reading

When Children Become the Lab Rats

“Ideology—not science, not medicine, not compassion—is now the ruling authority over children’s bodies. The state has decided that children belong to it.”

(Kevin McCullough) The United Kingdom is set to begin injecting children—some as young as ten years old—with puberty-blocking drugs in what the Daily Mail calls the first NHS-backed clinical experiment of its kind. Two hundred twenty-six children, who “believe” they are transgender, will be used to test whether the drugs could be “safely” administered in the future…. Continue reading

What Is Thanksgiving Day?

“Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift” (2 Cor. 9:15).

Thanksgiving is an American holiday that stretches all the way back to a time long before America became a nation. The Pilgrims landed in 1620. They faced brutal conditions and were woefully unprepared. Roughly half of them died in that first year. Then they had a successful harvest of corn. In November of 1621 they decided to celebrate a feast of thanksgiving.

Edward Winslow was among those who ate that first thanksgiving meal in 1621. He noted:

“Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we gathered the fruit of our labors. …And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want.”

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BREAKING: New Prosecutor Drops Fulton County RICO Case Against Trump and His Co-Defendants

“Skandalakis made Trump and his co-defendants for “record restriction,” which is basically an expungement of the arrest record.”

(Chris Queen – PJ Media) The long, arduous road of lawfare against President Donald Trump and his co-defendants in Fulton County, Ga., has come to an end. Prosecutor Peter Skandalakis, who took over the racketeering case that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis tried to pin on the president for supposedly attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, has dropped all of the charges. Continue reading