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

Dr. Scott Atlas: How MAHA Will Affect HHS, the CDC, the NIH, and More

“We need to also adjust ourselves. We don’t give up saying the truth, but we also need to sort of accept that there’s a group of people that will not admit they’re wrong, and then we have to figure how do we get our message out…” 

(Breitbart) Dr. Scott Atlas, widely censored for his positions on COVID, sat down with PragerU CEO Marissa Streit to talk about his dissenting data-based views during the pandemic, what the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) got wrong, and whether the medial establishment can regain the public’s trust.

Streit recounted that a previous interview she conducted with Atlas — in which they discussed the COVID pandemic, vaccine mandates, masking, and lockdowns — was censored. Continue reading

Wheaton College Hosts Revoice Speaker Who Calls Marriage an Idol and Says ‘Gay Celibacy’ is Superior

This isn’t about holiness, obedience, or submission to Christ’s lordship. This is about dismantling the faith from within, mocking biblical marriage while insisting on its redefinition. The goal isn’t to honor God with chastity and sexual purity but to force the church into a hostage negotiation with the spirit of the age.”

(The Dissenter) Wheaton College, a school that was once known for its firm stance on biblical orthodoxy, now serves as an all-you-can-eat buffet for theological drift. The latest spectacle? David Bennett, a Revoice speaker, prancing onto the stage in an exaggerated, overtly feminine tone to lecture evangelicals on the alleged superiority of “gay celibacy” as though biblical chastity needed a “queer” rebranding to be legitimate. Continue reading

There Was No Way the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Was Going to Survive This

(Matt Vespa – Townhall) It’s not exactly shocking news: President Donald J. Trump fired General Charles Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was cited for pushing DEI nonsense at the Pentagon, with more recent reports noting that he was allegedly on a purge list (via ABC News):

Gen. C.Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy’s top admiral, are on the list of general officers provided to Congress this week whom Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could fire or remove from their current jobs, according to two U.S. officials….

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Petition Calls for Apologist Michael Brown to Stop Online Ministry

“Last month, Line of Fire board members said they’d urged Brown to take time off of public ministry due to the allegations. But Brown continued to post podcasts and videos. Some seemed pre-recorded, but some seemed to include new content.”

(Rebecca Hopkins) Despite reportedly taking a break from public ministry following sexual abuse allegations, Messianic Jewish apologist Michael Brown has been sharing prayer and weight loss tips and pitching his new memoir in YouTube videos. So, former staff and students of Brown’s ministry have launched a petition, calling for Brown to stop all public ministry until a third-party investigation is finished. Continue reading

The Plan for Islam in America

Controversial Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is a Muslim, has the opinion that America is a terrible place. 

Awad likened modern America to the pre-Islamic tribal system in Mecca, portraying it as a society in moral decay that must be confronted and transformed. He explicitly urged Muslims in America to view their struggle as a continuation of the Prophet Muhammad’s mission.”

(Mary Dowling) Radical CAIR leader Nihad Awad, with well-documented Hamas ties, has a plan to grow Islam in the United States. At the ISNA conference, he spoke of a plan to use their 4,000 mosques to fund Muslims to infiltrate and reshape US institutions.

He urged their 4,000 mosques to fund Muslims to infiltrate and reshape U.S. institutions, boasting of unseating Biden and demanding Palestine dominate American politics—proving these Islamic supremacists seek power, not coexistence. Continue reading

The fallacious left vs. right dichotomy, and the war to the death between forces of good and forces of evil

“Sanity is the ability to recognize right from wrong, true from false, normal from abnormal independently of personal feelings, fears, impulses, desires, and compulsions. Rational thinking then, is reasoning disciplined to resist the corrupting influence of feelings, thus allowing for the acceptance of truths that contradict feelings, desires, and fancies. In short, rational thinking is morally-informed reasoning. It is dispassionate, rightly-ordered and logical, and is the fruit of impulse-control and unswerving commitment to enduring truths, moral law, and principle.”

(Linda Kimball – RenewAmerica) Confusion reigns today because we think in terms of a left-right dichotomy. Communism is on the left we are told to believe and Fascism comes from the right, while people and parties are either leftwing or rightwing.

America has fallen into lawlessness, division, corruption, evil, and disintegration, and due in large part to the fallacious left-right dichotomy, the underlying infection and its’ carriers cannot be clearly identified…. Continue reading

The Time for Compassion Is Past — The Evil of Hamas Must Be Destroyed

This article is written from a Jewish religious leader’s perspective on what the Hebrew scriptures teach on the unpardonable sin. Bible believing Christians do not hold the same view.

(Rabbi Michael Barclay – PJ Media) There is a powerful teaching in the Jewish tradition that is over 2,000 years old: Those who are compassionate to the cruel will eventually become cruel to the compassionate. It is sad, but I fear that the world has become too compassionate when dealing with Hamas and the jihadists, allowing cruelty to become the accepted norm. This must stop. Now. Not just to save lives in  the long term, but to save the souls of humanity itself before the world accepts being cruel to the compassionate. Continue reading

A Black, Queer, Bisexual Woman to Play Jesus

(Emmy Griffin – The Patriot Post) Cynthia Erivo is an extremely talented singer and actress who is probably best known for her starring role in the live-action version of the musical “Wicked.” However, it was just announced that Erivo is slated to play Jesus in an upcoming production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

This will mark a return to musical productions for the Hollywood Bowl and the LA Philharmonic since the COVID pandemic shut them down five years ago. Erivo is particularly prepped for this debut, having done a concept album with an all-female cast in 2020 wherein she played Mary Magdalene. Continue reading

Fire In The Pulpit

“The real problem, then, is in the reader who doesn’t connect logic and fire the way Luke does in the book of Acts… The utterance of wisdom (1 Corinthians 12:8a) should be understood as powerful preaching that makes penetrating application to real life.” The Spirit-empowered preacher not only preaches the Word but brings the Bible to bear on the times in which he lives as Paul and the greats of old did. People leave impacted and inspired to live for the Lord.”

(Seth Brickley – TruthScript) The Preacher’s Task – The preacher has the important task of preaching the Word of God in the power of the Holy Spirit. This is the commission that the apostle Paul gave to Timothy and all preachers when he wrote, “Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching” (2 Timothy 4:2)…. Continue reading

Trump Considering Returning 20 Percent of DOGE Savings to Americans

(Newsmax) President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration is considering returning 20% of savings identified by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative to Americans, echoing a proposal made on social media site X.

Speaking at a meeting of global financiers and tech executives hosted by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in Miami, Trump said he is also considering using another 20% of the savings to pay down the federal government’s debt. Continue reading

Christianity Today CEO Denies Left-Wing Funding and Bias From Atop His High Horse

“I’ve proven time and time again that Christianity Today is abandoning conservative Christianity to tackle faith issues from an increasingly left-leaning perspective. And that’s a shame because a once-essential periodical for Christians is leaving so many of them in the cold.”

(Chris Queen – PJ Media) A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Christianity Today, the increasingly left-leaning evangelical magazine, lamented the exposure of USAID even though the magazine had taken federal government grants, according to information from Data Republican. It turns out that those grants were COVID-era employee retention tax credits, and I corrected my reporting of that part of the story. Continue reading

Whistleblowers: FBI Weaponization Is Real, And Here’s Proof

(Ben Weingarten – The Federalist) Democrats have cast the Trump administration’s ouster of eight senior FBI leaders as a “purge” and act of “retribution” from a weaponized Justice Department, some likening it to President Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.”

But former colleagues of the terminated “G-men” say this narrative is backward. FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes. Continue reading

Christian Girls Basketball Team Forced to Compete Against Transgender Player As California Defies Trump Order

(Paul Bois – Breitbart) A Christian girls basketball team in California will be forced to compete against a team with a transgender player as the state continues to defy President Trump’s recent executive order banning males from women’s sports.

“An upcoming high school girls’ basketball playoff game will feature an openly transgender athlete playing for San Francisco Waldorf against Cornerstone Christian on Saturday,” reported Fox News…. Continue reading

19 State Attorneys General Signal Intent to Prosecute Fauci

(Ben Bartee – PJ Media) The venal little worm who posed as America’s Doctor over the past five years may have gotten an unprecedented pardon spanning a decade of potential criminality by the Biden regime on its way out. Still, he can’t slip the proverbial noose at the state level quite so easily.

In perhaps a case of state law trumping federal law, nineteen state attorneys general recently penned a letter to the GOP leadership in Congress requesting cooperation in gathering evidence that might lead to a successful Fauci prosecution at that level of government, despite Biden’s generous federal pardon: Continue reading

An introduction to Demonslayers and the threat they pose to you and your church.

(ChurchWatch Central) Organizations such as The Roys Report, Ministry Watch, and The Trinity Foundation have taken significant steps to expose the abuses within movements like the NAR and its offshoots. The rise of these self-styled “Demonslayers” within the contemporary Christian church represents a troubling phenomenon characterized by spiritual abuse, lack of accountability, and blatant theological perversions.

While these leaders present themselves as ‘Apostles/Generals’ or ‘champions’ of deliverance ministry, exposing and expelling demonic forces, their actions often reveal patterns of predatorial and grifting behaviour. Rooted in the theological innovations of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), many who flirt with the facade of Demonslayer mask their connections to this controversial movement by appropriating Pentecostal and Charismatic language…. Continue reading

Rick Warren Deletes Viral ‘Jesus Was A Centrist’ Tweet, Posts Apology

“While many thanked him for doing the right thing, others were not as satisfied.”

(Protestia) Former Saddleback Church founder Rick Warren has apologized for a controversial tweet that went viral last week, saying that he “wrote poorly” about the since-deleted missive.

Last week, Warren found himself in hot water for sharing the following message, quoting scripture while offering: Continue reading

’60 Minutes’ Airs an All-Timer, and the Depths They Sink to Will Blow Your Mind

(Bonchie – Red State) CBS News is having a year, and it got much worse on Sunday.

Star anchor Margaret Brennan kicked the day off by claiming that “weaponized free speech” was the cause of the Holocaust. You know, because the Weimer Republic was famous for its broad speech protections, a tradition that carried over into Adolf Hitler’s regime. Wait, what?

Watch a clip of the 60 Minutes interview with Marco Rubio on the site.

Little did we know that was just the warm-up, though. On Sunday evening, “60 Minutes” aired an all-timer, plumbing the depths to reach lows formerly thought impossible. Continue reading

God Doesn’t Love Everyone the Same—And Neither Do We

(Keith Foskey – Clear Truth Media) Recently, a video of Vice President JD Vance went viral in which he stated that Christianity upholds a hierarchy of relationships—beginning with family, then community, then country, and finally the world. His statement was met with swift backlash, with critics arguing that he had distorted the Christian message. Some even insisted that true Christianity demands prioritizing the stranger above all else, even over one’s own family.

This debate raises an important question: Does God command us to love all people in exactly the same way, with no distinctions?… Continue reading

Air Traffic Control Whistleblowers: DEI Hiring Practices Led to DC Crash

While much of the media is blaming the Army helicopter crew, Pearson argues that ATC was primarily at fault. He pointed out that the controller “didn’t tell the jet that the helicopter was in sight,” despite being “required to, and didn’t give safety advisories” when the alert was triggered. He also criticized the flight path, stating that “the helicopter route was horrible” and “the controller didn’t apply the rules properly.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) In the weeks since the tragic midair collision at Reagan National Airport, mounting concerns about the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) hiring practices have come under scrutiny. The tragic accident on January 29, involving an American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army helicopter, claimed the lives of all 67 individuals aboard. Continue reading

The Betrayal by Biden’s People

“This column explains the principle they betrayed. It further explains why former Vice President Kamala Harris is also on the guilty list.”

(Rob Natelson – Townhall) The uniquely-awful Biden presidency is finally over, and the establishment media have ended their blackout of the former president’s incapacity. At last we are getting answers to the question so many of us have been asking:

Who the heck was running the country during the last four years? Continue reading

President Trump Still Banned from Dismantling the Corrupt USAID

(Mary Dowling) Last week, Judge Carl Nichols, a Donald Trump appointee, banned the administration from putting thousands of staffers for the U.S. Agency for International Development on paid leave for three weeks. Labor unions brought the case.

Nichols extended the order he issued last week until Feb. 21…. Continue reading

Why ‘Education Experience’ Makes An Education Secretary Worse

“Daycares masquerading as schools are not harmless. They fuel our slow national suicide. America cannot become great again when our schools are mostly run by communists and their intellectually starved stooges. In the 46 years we’ve had a U.S. Department of Education, U.S. education has gotten much worse, not better. That’s not an accident, it’s proof that most of those in leadership positions in such an anti-American system should be viewed with suspicion and deprived of power.”

(Joy Pullmann – The Federalist) President Trump’s education secretary nominee Linda McMahon began her confirmation hearings the morning of Feb. 13. One of the chief attacks against her is bemoaning “a thin resume on education,” as industry lobbying outfit Education Week puts it. Continue reading

Congress Discovers $2.7 Trillion in Fraudulent Government Payments — Why Is This Not a Bigger Story?

This isn’t just fraud; it’s a shocking indicator of how little accountability there is in our government. The issue extends beyond mere dollar amounts. Leavitt presented a hypothetical scenario, saying, “There’s also a lot of contracts they’ve identified that, just as a hypothetical example, are a million bucks but only $500,000 went out the door, so where’s the rest of that cash?” 

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) On Wednesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) held her DOGE subcommittee hearing and announced it has discovered that over the past 20 years, the U.S. government has squandered $2.7 trillion on improper payments. Just last year alone, the government handed out $170 billion to individuals who were deceased, criminals, or otherwise ineligible for government programs. Continue reading