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

Meet Ray Epps: The Fed-Protected Provocateur Who Appears To Have Led The Very First 1/6 Attack On The U.S. Capitol

“After months of research, Revolver’s investigative reporting team can now reveal that Ray Epps appears to be among the primary orchestrators of the very first breach of the Capitol’s police barricades at 12:50pm on January 6. Epps appears to have led the “breach team” that committed the very first illegal acts on that fateful day.”

(Revolver)  In a House hearing on Thursday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) questioned AG Merrick Garland about a mysterious man, Ray Epps, instructing protesters to enter the US Capitol building on January 5, and who later shepherded crowds towards the Capitol on January 6.

The story of the mystery man, Ray Epps, featured in Rep. Massie’s video [on the site] is in fact far more shocking than even the good Congressman implies in the hearing…. Continue reading

Trans Tyranny: The Real 1 Percent — That Runs EVERYTHING

“You know, the way that you can tell who holds all the power in a society is by who you can’t make fun of, right?”

(Selwyn Duke – The New American)  “Rule No. 1: Don’t Challenge Trans Orthodoxy.” So read the chyron on the screen Thursday evening, when Fox News host Tucker Carlson pointed out that it used to be “a feature of high school biology class that biological sex is biologically real.” Continue reading

Parents Slam Obama Over ‘Fake Outrage’ Claims at Rally

“Parents quickly slammed Obama’s disconnected remarks.”

(A.J. Kaufman – PJ Media)  Former President Barack Obama’s rhetoric during a weekend rally for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is being criticized.

Obama classified Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin and Americans’ focus on important education issues as “fake outrage.” Continue reading

Steven Furtick and Other Heretics Win ‘Christian Music’ Dove Awards for 2021

“The commercialized Christian music industry not only enables this idolatry but promotes it to the degree that God’s glory is robbed from Him at many levels, including in churches. The vast majority of Christian contemporary music is produced by celebrity artists who’ve compromised on biblical truths in order to serve their own selfish desires.”

(Reformation Charlotte)  As if the celebrity Christian lifestyle alone wasn’t enough to cause most Bible-believing Christians to [become sick at their stomachs], the fact that almost all of them are rank heretics should leave us with no other choice…. Continue reading

Dr. Michael Brown Blasts Critics Who Call False Teachers ‘Loons and Hucksters’

(Protestia)  During the October 20 Line of Fire, Jim Osman (author of God Doesn’t Whisper) called into Michael Brown’s show and criticized him for platforming the worst of the worst of charismatic ne’er do wells, telling him, “I would say that you have given a lot of shade, in fact, shade to some of the worst and most egregious charismatics, charlatans, false prophets, and hucksters that the charismatic movement has turned up in recent years, including Sid Roth and Benny Hinn and others just like it.” Continue reading

Treasury Sec: Americans Will Suffer Under Biden’s Historic Inflation for at Least 14 More Months

“The White House has no interest in solving inflation, the border, or rising gas prices. But plenty of time for a 42-page “National Gender Strategy” with an “intersectional” focus on climate change.”

(Jack Davis – Western Journal)  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says inflation is not leaving any time soon.

Yellen, who was interviewed on the CNN show “State of the Union” which aired Sunday, dismissed existing supply chain issues as “temporary pains that result from a COVID economy and getting beyond it.” Continue reading

Rand Paul Has Harsh Words for Fauci After NIH Admits Funding Gain-of-function Research

(Michael Tennant – The New American)  Vindicated by an admission from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that it did indeed fund gain-of-function research on bat viruses in Wuhan, China, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) lambasted Dr. Anthony Fauci, accusing him of “parsing words” in congressional testimony to avoid the perception that he had anything to do with the virus that causes COVID-19.

Paul appeared on Fox News Primetime Thursday, one day after a letter from NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak to Representative James Comer (R-Ky.), ranking member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, was made public…. Continue reading

John Piper lies, peddles Big Pharma narrative

“John Piper invokes the same peer pressure that he claims he’s writing against as well as uses fear to motivate the individual.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) As usual, John Piper is showing up late on an issue, writing a lot but saying very little, and dressing bad unbiblical arguments in orthodox explanations of the text. Previous examples include voting Democrat and Critical Race Theory. Perhaps it’s too early to say whether John Piper is a false teacher or not [CRN believes John Piper teaches falsely], but he’s consistently bad on cultural issues whether it be voting, guns, or vaccines. Continue reading

Biden’s ‘Pretty Naive’ Afghanistan Withdrawal Made Obama SecDef Sick

“If you start with the notion that we’re pulling out entirely, I think you’d have to be pretty naïve not to assume things were going to go downhill once that withdrawal was complete.”

(Spencer Brown – Townhall)  In a new interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper set to air on Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes,” former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates — who served under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama from 2006 to 2011 — didn’t hold back in criticizing President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Continue reading

Paid to Speak: The Speaking Honorarium Business

How much do guest speakers cost? The Harvard Business Review  provides “a rule of thumb for appropriate pricing”:

(Barry Bowen – Trinity Foundation)  The church and ministry conference business is back with a vengeance with guest speakers often collecting large speaking honorariums. Many religious organizations refuse to disclose the size of honorarium payments, leaving donors and attendees in the dark as to how the money is being spent. Continue reading

COVID has uncovered something alarming in the West

“Despite knowing that the mortality rate of this virus is extraordinarily low, there is a significant portion of the population that not only remains panicked about returning to a normal life, but expresses antipathy and anger towards those who don’t share their crippling paranoia.”

(Peter Heck – Not the Bee)  I don’t know “Niccolò,” the online Twitter name (likely an homage to political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli) of a European user whose recent thread on the long-term impacts our COVID response will have on Western Civilization went viral…. Continue reading

Who Will You Serve, God Or The World?

(Marsha West – Christian Research Network)  Recently I was going through my archives and stumbled on an article I penned in 2005, “Who Will You Serve, God Or The World”. Fifteen years ago I was pretty worked up over the moral depravity liberals were introducing into America’s public schools right under parents’ noses. Back then higher education had a bastion of professors spewing lies and Marxist propaganda into the malleable minds of college students, some of whom bought into what they were taught, hook line and sinker. Bad as it was, few parents seemed to notice. Those who did notice didn’t much care, even though Marxists are the enemy of God, religious liberty, and freedom. In 2005 I tried to warn parents that professors and teachers had their sights set on kids in grades K-12. Not in my wildest imagination did I anticipate the corruption of a whole generation of youth through entertainment, school books riddled with revisionist history, smartphones and access to social media. Continue reading

SBC Pastor Mike Stone Sues Russell Moore for defamation

(Capstone Report)  Russell Moore faces lawsuit for libel, false invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress for spreading alleged lies about SBC Pastor Mike Stone.

Mike Stone filed a defamation lawsuit against Russell Moore in US District Court in Nashville Monday, October 18, 2021. Stone claims Moore spread malicious information in retaliation for Stone’s investigation into the ERLC. Continue reading

Pfizer and BioNTech announce their vaccine is USELESS 11 months after dosing…

(Alex Barenson)  Well, that’s not how they phrased it.

But it is the only reasonable way to read their press release claiming that the booster is 95% effective.

Remember. The booster is given to people who have RECEIVED the vaccine. (That’s why it’s a booster, right?)

And when they tested a booster against a placebo in those people, they found a 95% reduction in disease in people who received the booster (for a total of 11 weeks after they received the booster, excluding the first week, because science – by which I mean because including that week would not help their results). 95%! Continue reading

FAUCI LIED: NIH Admits Funding Gain-of-Function Research at Wuhan Lab

The letter from Tabak describes the results of a limited experiment, where “laboratory mice infected with [a modified bat coronavirus] became sicker than those infected with the [original] bat coronavirus.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media)  Despite testifying before Congress to the contrary, new evidence appears to prove that National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins approved grants for gain-of-function virus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Continue reading

Study: Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States

“At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7 days. In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people.” 

(S. V. Subramanian and Akhil Kumar – NCBI) Vaccines currently are the primary mitigation strategy to combat COVID-19 around the world. For instance, the narrative related to the ongoing surge of new cases in the United States (US) is argued to be driven by areas with low vaccination rates [1]…. Continue reading

FDA Will Allow ‘Mix and Match’ COVID Booster Shots. What Could Go Wrong?

“The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines both use mRNA technology in the manufacture of their shots. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is a carrier or virus vector vaccine. How can they possibly ensure the safety of a booster shot that has received no extended clinical trials?”

(Rick Moran – PJ Media) The FDA will say this week that if you want a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, it won’t matter whether you were originally vaccinated with another brand. You will soon be able to “mix and match” the vaccine manufacturer to get your booster. Continue reading

Sharing Christ with those who worship idols

“In A.A. one often hears about alcoholism being a “spiritual disease.” It is more accurate to see Alcoholics Anonymous as the  spiritual disease, because it has pointed millions away from the Christ of the Bible, and watered down the beliefs of the Christians who have become members.”

(John Lanagan – The Word Like Fire)   Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit? (Isaiah 44:10)

The people in A.A. are doing the best they can with what they have been taught. Continue reading

The Left Is Evil — and Liberals Keep Voting for Them

“The fate of America and the West lies largely in the hands of liberals. There are simply not enough leftists to destroy our most revered institutions. They need liberals to serve as fellow travelers to accomplish their ends.” 

(Dennis Prager – Townhall)  As I have noted repeatedly, liberalism and leftism have virtually nothing in common. In fact, leftism is the enemy of liberalism — as a handful of liberals such as former New York Times writer Bari Weiss, former Young Turk Dave Rubin, and others have come to recognize. Continue reading

The Steal

Reporter Mollie Hemingway investigated the Zuckerberg situation and calls it “genius.”

(Bill O’Reilly)  It was always wrong.  But no one could explain exactly how votes were being corrupted in the 2020 presidential election.  Trump legal people like Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell ran around condemning voting machines and promoting shady allegations of fraud.  But they could never produce forensic evidence of wrongdoing – and both have suffered greatly for their advocacy. Continue reading