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

John Piper’s Church Has Gay Affirming Ed Stetzer Preach

Ed Stetzer is also the theology behind the He Gets Us Campaign, a series of high-profile, low-quality commercials that villainize Christians and promote liberal social policy. Moreover, he is a big promoter of The Chosen and extremely liberal “Christian” movies.

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) John Piper is one of the biggest celebrity pastors in America today. His ministry, Desiring God, is one of the largest online ministries, bigger than The Gospel Coalition. Yet, many people are unaware that John Piper is woke, despite it being well documented in his own writings which include the early use of Critical Race Theory, anti-self-defense rhetoric, pro Democrat conscious soothing, pro Covid vaccine propaganda, and more. Continue reading

The Wrong Red Wave: More Than 250 ‘Democratic Socialists Now in Office

“DSA strategy views the Democratic Party as the key arena for building anti-corporate coalitions, though tensions arise when socialists defeat establishment Democrats. Membership surged from 6,200 in 2015 to 95,000 in 2021, fueled by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A 2025 Cato/YouGov poll shows 62% of under-30s view socialism favorably, signaling growing mainstream acceptance of once-radical ideas.”

(Selwyn Duke – New American) Meet Hannah Shvets, a 20-year-old Cornell University sophomore and one of the newest members of New York’s Ithaca Common Council.

Shvets is also a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Continue reading

Democrats Released Three Cherrypicked Epstein Emails… So the GOP Released 20,000

“Here’s where it gets interesting. Republicans on the House Oversight Committee decided to respond by releasing the entire trove of 20,000 documents they obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein. All of them. Every single page.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Democrats thought they had a winning hand when they released three carefully selected Jeffrey Epstein emails on Wednesday morning. The timing was no accident. With their caucus still reeling from their base turning on them for caving on the government shutdown, they needed a distraction, and they believed these emails would deliver one. They were wrong. Continue reading

Megyn Kelly Shows Proof Charlie Backed Tucker’s Interview at TPUSA

(Mary Dowling) Charlie Kirk was told by his Jewish donors to ditch Tucker Carlson before and after the TPUSA event that unsettled some donors.

Tucker said he was venting with Charlie backstage before the event. Tucker was angry about the neocons trying to start a war with Iran. He was also frustrated that he wasn’t allowed to mention that Jeffrey Epstein had contact with Mossad. Tucker said Epstein clearly had contact with American and French intelligence, but the only one you’re not allowed to talk about is the Israeli intelligence. Continue reading

Tucker Carlson’s Theology is a Dumpster Fire

“Carlson claims that demonic beings make deals with governments, maul people in their sleep, and even birthed nuclear technology. Apparently, the Manhattan Project was a seance and, in Tucker’s view, human beings aren’t evil enough on their own to conjure up such a thing.”

(The Dissenter) Tucker Carlson—the silver-tongued sage of cable news turned podcaster—can eviscerate a politician’s hypocrisy with a single raised eyebrow. We’ve cheered his political broadsides, nodded through his takedowns of woke absurdities, and admired his knack for exposing elite corruption.

He’s good…really good at that. And I like the guy, so don’t take this as a denunciation of him. It isn’t. Continue reading

Trump Takes on the Lyin’ Beeb

“Apparently, though, the folks at the Beeb didn’t get the memo. Or, more likely, they got it and just didn’t care because it didn’t fit their narrative. Which is why they aired a documentary that featured diabolically edited footage of the speech — footage that made Trump appear to say the following: We’re going to walk down to the Capitol… I’ll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell.”

(Douglas Andrews – The Patriot Post) By now, all but the most deranged denizens of the Leftmedia fever swamps know what Donald Trump did and didn’t say during his January 6, 2021, address on the Ellipse just south of the White House. Continue reading

The Smiling Communist

“Despite election euphoria in the radical zone last week, Mayor Zohran will have a difficult time trying to provide free services and stuff because New York City is deeply in debt and the state legislature in Albany, a loon sanctuary, has to okay all new income taxes.”

(Bill O’Reilly) Let’s be fair to Zohran. He won the election to be NYC’s mayor in a fair way. Smiling constantly, he looked young and spirited next to Andrew Cuomo, who was channeling Bela Lugosi.  Look him up under 30 people. Continue reading

At TPUSA Event, Antifa Proves the Battle Is Between Good and Evil

“While attendees peacefully attended the event, the violent agitators had the audacity to call them Nazis and fascists. They celebrated the public execution of Charlie Kirk in a not-so-subtle way to send a message to everyone who was there, along with you and me…”

(Tim O’Brien – PJ Media) The assassination of Charlie Kirk and the subsequent behaviors on the part of a shocking number of leftists ever since have proven that the battle between good and evil rages on greater than ever in America and the world. In my life, while evil may have existed throughout society at the same levels as today, it was never this brazen. Continue reading

The Flood of Stunning New Evidence That J6 Was a Fedsurrection Can’t Be Ignored

“The media and congressional leaders lied about all of it. And if all that wasn’t your red pill moment, sit down because you may go from red to black pill by the end of this story.” 

(Victoria Taft – PJ Media) Like many of you, after the initial shock wore off, it became quite clear that something nefarious was behind the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol Complex. Things were too pat. Narratives were set and eagerly parroted by the media within hours. Buses filled with non-MAGA people were reported and verified by congressional reps. And there were “bombs” found at the Democratic National Committee and later at a club near the RNC. Impeachment talk was openly discussed. Continue reading

N.T. Wright Defends Annihilationism, Suggests Judas Ceased to Exist?

Or we could say, and I’ve tried to argue this here and there, they cease to exist as an image bearing human being. They’re saying in effect, ‘I no longer want to be somebody who is called to reflect God’s wisdom into the world and reflect the praises of the world back to God. I just don’t want to be that sort of creature anymore.’

(Protestia) Famed New Testament scholar N.T. Wright has weighed in on the state of those who explicitly reject Christ and salvation, suggesting they’ll simply be annihilated or exist in some state of being a creation, but not an image bearer. Continue reading

Democrats Cave on Government Funding, Will Receive Nothing for Ending Schumer Shutdown

The result is that Democrats once again overpromised results to their base but came up empty-handed, inflicting forty days of pain for nothing of substance.”

(Breitbart) A disastrous shutdown for Democrats got worse Sunday when Senate Democrats folded on government funding while receiving nothing of substance in return.

Eight Senate Democrats voted with 42 Republicans Sunday night on a procedural vote to allow a continuing resolution (CR) funding the government to advance. Continue reading

Genocidal Muslim Terrorists Killed 200,000 People in 11 Years

Earlier this year, Front Page Magazine reported on the genocide of Christians in Nigeria and called on President Trump to take action. Charlie Kirk tweeted out our article with the message, “Did you know 125,000 Christians have been murdered and 19,000 churches destroyed by Muslims in Nigeria in the last 15 years? Weird how that never gets any attention. Wonder why.”

(Daniel Greenfield – Frontpage Magazine) Islamic terrorism is the outcry of the oppressed, apologists tell us. If the perpetrators only had access to more advanced weapons, they wouldn’t feel the need to massacre civilians with everything from machetes to rockets. Terrorism is a local phenomenon, not a global one. Continue reading

‘Jesus Calling Foundation’ Gives $1M To PCA Amid Internal Investigation Book’s Theology

“[Jesus Calling] is one of the most dangerous books released in the last twenty years for its espousal of blatant mysticism, Montanism, Theoeroticism, speaking for God, extra-biblical assertions, automatic writing, and rejection of the sufficiency of the scriptures.”

(Protestia) The 2024 Form 990 for the Jesus Calling Foundation is now available and shows that the foundation contributed over a million dollars from book royalties to the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) in a single year.

In 2024, the same year that the PCA Committee on Discipleship Ministries (CDM) was tasked to “assess the book’s appropriateness for Christians” and “provide recommendations (if needed) for remedial materials, advisory statements, or General Assembly actions concerning Jesus Calling, the PCA received $1,080,000 from the Jesus Calling Foundation.  Continue reading

Huge crowd of Muslims gather to claim New York City for Islam…

“Assimilation isn’t oppression. It’s how a nation stays united. Without it, we’re just a collection of divided groups living on the same land — and that’s not a country, that’s chaos.”

(Revolver) What’s happening in New York right now has a lot of Americans on edge, and rightfully so. A massive group of Muslims gathered and publicly claimed the city for Islam. People who watched it unfold aren’t being “bigots” for feeling uneasy. They’re watching their country’s biggest city slip further from the culture that built it, just days after electing a Marxist mayor.

Scroll passed the X boxes to READ MORE… Continue reading

Benny Hinn Reveals 4 Tests That Separate True Ministers From Frauds

CRN does not recommend promoters of heretics Charisma, the “Christian” website this article is published on. Most people know by now that “faith healer” Benny Hinn is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He’s the worst of the worst a “very bad man.”

Now to Charisma’s LOL piece:

Pastor Benny Hinn sat down in a powerful interview with Pastor Joshua Hayward Mills of First Love Church to discuss the issues every minister faces and the divine principles that prepare leaders to shepherd God’s people effectively. Continue reading

Yes, Virginia, there is a Satan

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“The answer of course is the Bible. Yet how many people actually read it? How many churches really preach it? How many Christians know about total depravity and sovereign grace? Or perfect wrath and holy terror?”

(Mike Arbige – TruthScript) In an election night filled with disappointing, albeit unsurprising results, perhaps none was more disappointing and surprising than Virginia’s comfortable election of Jay Jones as its next Attorney General. Yes, that Jay Jones. The man who fantasizes about killing Republicans and their children…. Continue reading

Two GOP leaders who did their part to get Marxist Mamdani elected…

(Revolver) New York City didn’t wake up one morning and elect a foreign Marxist mayor by accident. That didn’t “just happen.” It’s the final act of a political show that’s been running for years. And it wasn’t just the dastardly Dems who helped produce it. None of this could’ve happened without Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell—the “super polite” Republican leaders who smiled, stalled, and sabotaged Trump’s legal immigration reforms during his first term, at a time when it would’ve mattered most and could have actually changed the course of history. Continue reading

FBI’s Bongino says he’s shocked ‘to my core’ by probes into Intelligence agencies’ corruption

“We are going to get the answers WE ALL DESERVE. As with any investigation, I cannot predict where it will land, but I can promise you an honest and dignified effort at truth. Not “my truth,” or “your truth,” but THE TRUTH.”

(Charlotte Hazard – Just the News) FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Saturday that he is shocked to his core about what he has learned during ongoing investigations to root out public corruption and political weaponization of intelligence agencies. Continue reading

Unwinding False Teaching

“By carefully comparing Scripture with Scripture and Bible version with Bible version, we may protect ourselves from serious error. If left unchecked, a minor drift from the historical-grammatical test can lead to serious heresy.”

(Don & Joy Veinot – Midwestern Christian Outreach) As we help those who are former cult members, it is nearly always necessary to show them how to read the Bible in its historical and grammatical context. Bringing new clarity to a person’s understanding of Scripture is a process we refer to as “unwinding.” Plenty of false teaching results from lifting passages from their historical-grammatical context and giving them new inventive meanings…. Continue reading

Brutal Night for Republicans… Or Was It?

(Stephen Kruiser – PJ Media) What the heck, let’s come at this post mortem from a different angle. I assure you that I’m not concussed, drunk, or in some sort of Invasion of the Body Snatchers situation. True, things did not go well at all for Republicans on Election Night 2025. A commie jihadist was elected mayor of New York CityVirginia was a bloodbath. New Jersey elected another Dem to lead the state, and California voted to become even more politically California-ish.

That’s a whole lotta ugliness for Republicans. Continue reading

New York Mayoral Election Results: Mamdani Wins

“If there is one thing we have learned from this election night, it is that Republicans need to take the Democratic Party much more seriously. They are most certainly not over as a national party, and they are hell bent for leather on winning as many elections as they can. Ahead of the 2026 midterms, we need to buckle down and pour our resources and time into getting out the vote.”

(Catherine Salgado – PJ Media) Radical socialist, pro-jihad Democrat candidate Zohran Mamdani has reportedly fulfilled the worst expectations of patriotic Americans in winning the New York City mayoral race, according to an early call from DDHQ with about two-thirds of the vote in. Continue reading

The Heritage Foundation Enters the Carlson-Fuentes Dispute

“The word “cancel” took on a certain connotation when social media platforms were (and still are) silencing conservative voices. Those are platforms — the digital town square — where free speech ought to prevail. The ideas of a movement are different. Telling Nick Fuentes your hate-filled identity politics have no part with our Liberty movement is not cancel culture. It’s the stewardship of our movement.”

(Nate Jackson – The Patriot Post) Properly understood, the political spectrum runs from Liberty on the right to tyranny on the left. If that simple truth is kept in mind, it clarifies much of the political rancor and debate, including what a fascist is and the controversy surrounding Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. Continue reading

Texas Supreme Court Allows Judges To Refuse To Perform Same-Sex Weddings

“As a result of the victory, many believe it could play a role in a federal lawsuit that is attempting to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage.”

(Protestia) In what has been hailed as a “massive rollback for LGBTQ rights,” a new ruling by the Texas Supreme Court has granted judges the freedom to refuse to perform ‘same-sex weddings’ if it violates their sincerely held religious beliefs. Continue reading

This Looks Like the Smoking Gun in the Case Against James Comey

(Matt Margolis PJ Media) James Comey’s legal troubles just got a whole lot worse.

In September, James Comey was indicted on charges of making false statements and obstruction of justice. Comey claims he’s the victim of malicious prosecution, and Democrats are out in full force claiming that this is part of Trump’s “revenge,” but newly filed evidence that Just the News obtained is quite damning. Prosecutors have revealed what looks like a smoking gun: Comey’s own words showing that he wasn’t merely aware his top aides were leaking to the press; he was actively congratulating them for it. Continue reading