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

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

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“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

Here’s What Kash Patel’s FBI Uncovered About the Trump Assassination Attempt

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) FBI Director Kash Patel revealed new details about Thomas Matthew Crooks’s mindset during his failed assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in Butler, Pa., last year. In an interview with investigative journalist Catherine Herridge on “Straight to the Point” from the Los Angeles Times Media Group, Patel described how Crooks acted from a deep hostility toward the U.S. government and the two-party system.

Herridge asked Patel why Crooks, at just 20 years old, was fixated on taking out Donald Trump as he moved toward the GOP nomination last year. At the time, the FBI claimed ideology played no role. But that was not the case. Continue reading

Trump Ordered Report: Experts Say No Evidence Supports Gender Treatments for Kids

“We are very politically and ideologically a diverse group. Most of the authors are liberals, Democrats. They wouldn’t vote for Trump if he forced them to. This is a bipartisan initiative.”

(Dmitri Bolt -Townhall) A Trump-ordered report found that there is no scientific basis or any medical evidence to support providing “gender-affirming care” to children. The report was finalized and posted on Wednesday after passing scientific peer review. Continue reading

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin Admits That Trump Has Not Issued Illegal Orders to U.S. Military

(Breitbart) Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) admitted on Sunday that to her knowledge she was “not aware” that President Donald Trump has issued an illegal order to U.S. Military service members.

During an interview on ABC’s This Week, host Martha Raddatz referenced the White House’s response to a video in which Democrats, such as Slotkin, encourage U.S. military troops to disobey orders. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt previously accused Democrats of suggesting that Trump “has given illegal orders, which he has not.” Continue reading

Do You Feel Discouraged by False Teaching?

“Our work can feel lonely, like we’re among the few (or perhaps the only) seeing concerns within the evangelical world. It’s hard to watch people who went to Bible college with us, people who we grew up with in church, or even close friends, reject historic Christianity or choose a lesser gospel. It grieves us. Like Elijah, we may complain to God that we’re the only ones left.”

(Lara d’Entremont – Core Christianity) The first summer in this house, my mom and I dug our hands into the small garden between the front and back steps. Weeds grew and jammed their way throughout the garden, choking out or hiding all of the vibrant flowers the previous owner had planted. We pulled up weeds and rearranged flowers under the hot sun while every type of bug and fly swarmed around us. Afterwards, we wiped the sweat from our brows and scrubbed dirt from under our fingernails. Continue reading

The Scummy Six Insurrectionists

(Douglas Andrews – The Patriot Post) Where are the arrests? Where are the show trials? Where’s the congressional dog and pony show? I mean, isn’t this coordinated effort to weaken our commander-in-chief and eat away at the cohesion within our military and our intelligence services an act of insurrection or — dare we say it? — treason?

Two can play at this Democrat game, right?

At issue is a brief and melodramatic video posted on Tuesday by Michigan Senator and 2028 presidential hopeful Elissa Slotkin…. Continue reading

86 Democrats Vote with GOP to Condemn Socialism in the USA

“The resolution…asserts that socialism has led to famine and mass murder under the Cuban Castro regime, the Chinese rule of Mao Zedong, the ongoing Venezuelan regime of Nicolás Maduro and others.”

(Mary Dowling) The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution condemning socialism Friday morning, with eighty-six Democrats crossing the aisle to rebuke “socialist policies” in the U.S. following Zohran Mamdani’s recent election as the mayor-elect of New York City. Continue reading

The Neo-Evangelical Mirage

“Some may argue that evangelical doctrine is stable, given that it is rooted in the Solas of the Reformation. This is true, but the emphasis of the past fifty years has been on outward aesthetics and novel ways to do church. More traditional forms of Protestantism, including fundamentalism, that have kept their liturgies and doctrine, are well positioned to benefit from renewed interest in older forms of religion.”

(Jon Harris) Recently it has occurred to me that neo-evangelicals are still by and large repeating the contextualization mistakes that ensnared Bill Hybels and Rick Warren in previous generations. They remain drawn to the pursuit of certain demographics they believe will grant them a cultural advantage, and in the short term it appears as if this strategy is correct. Yet the end result is always the same. The church becomes marginalized as the superficial glow that once made it appear bright dims with changing social conditions. Continue reading