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

Defund the Police? How About We Defund the Universities

“Happily, real courts overthrew many of the university injustices and rebuked universities for their practices. The imaginary systemic racism was “overcome” by providing special consideration and benefits for people of color, such as segregated dining, sleeping, socializing, and ceremonies, segregation being the new “human rights” of the ideological extremists. Unfortunately, no court or legislature has yet intervened to assess these practices.”

(Philip Carl Salzman – PJ Media)  Our universities have nurtured and foisted on America and Canada an extreme radicalism that vilifies American and Canadian history, society, and culture…. Continue reading

Megachurch pastor John Ortberg kept a family member’s attraction to children secret. Then his son blew the whistle.

“Lavery was also concerned that Johnny invoked the phrase “virtuous pedophile” to describe himself — a term used by an online support group of people attracted to children who never act on that attraction and who maintain that abuse is wrong. Some group members believe it is safe, even healing, for people with this attraction to work with children.”

(Bob Smietana – RNS) In the summer of 2018, a volunteer at Menlo Church came to the Rev. John Ortberg seeking help.

The congregation member, who volunteered with youth and children at the Bay area megachurch and in the community, had been experiencing “an unwanted thought pattern of attraction to minors” and needed the pastor’s support. Continue reading

How Extended COVID-19 Lockdowns Pose a Serious Threat to Mental Health

“These are very serious issues and there’s a literature … on what the effects of stay-at-home lockdown or quarantine, whatever you’d like to call it, what the effects are on people. What those effects are is that, in as little as nine days, people can develop mental health problems, anxiety, depression, anger.”

(Virginia Allen – Daily Signal) Americans’ mental and emotional health can’t be ignored in the fight against COVID-19.

Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz, assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for mental health and substance use, joins the show to explain the physiological effects of extended isolation.  Continue reading

Georgia Governor Kemp to Deploy 1,000 National Guard Troops to Atlanta After City Explodes in Violence

(Rick Moran – PJ Media)  Over the weekend, the city of Atlanta exploded in violence as rioters tore into Georgia State Patrol headquarters, trashing the place, and 20 people were shot on Saturday alone.

Several other locations saw protesters clashing with police as Atlanta authorities seemed paralyzed with fear.

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms decried the violence, begging the rioters, “This random wild, Wild West shoot-‘em-up because you can, has gotta stop. It has to stop.” Continue reading

Black Lives Matter Terrorists Storm Baptist Church and Block Entrances, Assault Members

(PNP)  Black Lives Matter “protesters” continue to find new targets for their destructive behavior. Not content with toppling statues, looting, and setting buildings on fire, they’ve now found a new source to terrorize: Christian churches.

The rioters in question chose to target Grace Baptist Church in Troy, NY, because the Church was sponsoring an AR-15 giveaway, as is their practice. Protesters showed up in mass, storming the sanctuary and causing a disturbance…. Continue reading

Disney Celebrates Pride Month, Donates $100K to ‘Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network’

The powers that be at Disney are far Left zealots who are fiercely anti-Christian. Over the years the company has been pushing New Age themes and their progressive political views on impressionable children. Disney television and film productions encourage sorcery, witchcraft, wizardry, necromancy, feminism, radical environmentalism, social justice, class warfare plus the LGBTQ agenda.  Disney’s aim is to indoctrinate youngsters with a message they want to send which is decidedly liberal. Ever notice the recurring theme in Disney films: White males are inferior, bungling nitwits, unkind and mean, while women are smart, brave, problem solvers, kind and loving. Biased gender role-modeling, anyone?

Keeping this background in mind, here’s the report: Continue reading

Gay People Being ‘Shunted Towards Hormones and Surgery’ Is ‘New Kind of Conversion Therapy’

J.K. Rowling – Wikimedia Commons photo

“The long-term health risks of cross-sex hormones have been now been tracked over a lengthy period. These side-effects are often minimised or denied by trans activists,” Rowling explained, quoting Oxford professor Carl Henegan’s description of “the off-label use of puberty blockers on under-18s as an ‘unregulated live experiment on children’.”

(Breitbart)  Harry Potter author Joanne ‘JK’ Rowling has again been targeted by trans activists for warning that children believed to be “trans” should not necessarily be “shunted towards hormones and surgery”. Continue reading

Pro-Palestinian BLM Rallies in U.S. Call for ‘Death to Israel, Death to America’

The Republican Jewish Coalition published a statement responding to the march saying it was “horrified by this vicious hatemongering by Black Lives Matter protesters.”

(Debra Danan – Breitbart)  At pro-Palestinian Black Lives Matter rallies in New York and Washington, chants were heard calling for “Death to Israel,” “Death to America” and “From Gaza to Minnesota, globalize the Intifada!”

Several hundred protesters attended the July 1 demonstration in Brooklyn dubbed as a “Day of Rage” event, set to coincide with the earliest date Israel could begin its plans to apply Israeli law over parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley. Continue reading

Trump Eviscerates the ‘Web of Lies’ Behind the ‘Angry Mob,’ Defends Mount Rushmore for Fourth of July

“There could be no greater place to celebrate America’s independence than this incredible majestic mountain monument to the greatest Americans that have ever lived,” Trump declared. “Today we pay tribute to the exceptional lives and extraordinary legacies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. I am here as your president to proclaim before the country and before the world this monument will never be desecrated, these heroes will never be defaced, their legacy will never ever be destroyed, their achievements will never be forgotten, and Mount Rushmore will stand forever as an eternal tribute to our forefathers and to our freedom!”

(Tyler O’Neil – PJ Media)  At Mount Rushmore, President Donald Trump delivered a stunning Fourth of July rebuke to the iconoclast mobs and rampant cancel culture ravaging American life…. Continue reading

The coming collapse of the Republic

“Political correctness, has metastasized into “cancel culture.” It’s why two people in two recent days — one a cop, the other an acquaintance — told me what’s plain: They, and everyone else, are afraid to speak their minds, fearing career and reputational destruction. It’s why social media censorship is intensifying by the month. An iron muzzle has descended upon America, and what can’t be spoken against can’t be effectively combated.”

(Selwyn Duke – Renew America)  “We’re just one election away from full-blown socialism,” a man recently said to me during a short conversation. This sentiment has become increasingly common lately, even, notably, among the previously apolitical. Yet something is overlooked: Continue reading

Epstein Madam Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested, Charged with Sex Trafficking of Children

“Epstein’s famous plane, the Lolita Express, shuttled the rich and famous to his island in the Pacific for clandestine activity with underage girls. Maxwell is believed to have been involved up to her eyeballs in it and will now finally face justice … if she survives that long.”

(Megan Fox – PJ Media)  Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime girlfriend and alleged “madam” for Jeffrey Epstein (who didn’t kill himself) has been arrested by the FBI at a luxurious estate in New Hampshire on charges of conspiracy, sex trafficking of minor children, and perjury. She is said to be under suicide watch and we all hope it goes better than that time her boyfriend was in a similar situation. Continue reading

The Biggest Story of 2020 Won’t Be COVID or Riots

Cotton painted a bleak picture of what awaits Hong Kongers who dare speak their minds. “Those convicted under the new law could face life imprisonment, alongside the many underground church leaders, Uighurs, Tibetans, Falun Gong members, and other persecuted individuals that the Chinese Communist Party has already ‘disappeared.’”

(Tyler O’Neil – PJ Media)  On Thursday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) gave a powerful speech about the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal crackdown on Hong Kong…. Continue reading

We Want Our Country Back

“Mandates. Since when has America been governed by an endless string of mandates? We can’t even take it to the Supreme Court because Chief Justice Roberts will just vote against us like he always does. It’s been a long time since he met a Far Left project that he didn’t like.”

(Lee Duigon – News With Views)  Once upon a time American colonists, enraged by the high-handed tactics of Great Britain’s Parliament, threw a whole shipment of tea into Boston Harbor rather than pay a tax imposed on them without their having any say in it. Continue reading

Black Lives Matter Joins Anti-Israel Demonstrators in ‘Day of Rage’

(Joel B. Pollack – Breitbart) Black Lives Matter protests joined anti-Israel demonstrators in a nationwide “Day of Rage” on Wednesday that included calls for Israel’s destruction and claims that Israel murders children, an allusion to medieval antisemitic blood libels.

The Jewish News Service reported that antisemitic and anti-Israel groups organized the “Day of Rage” on July 1, the first day that Israel’s government said it could extend its law to Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”). Continue reading

We Do Not Consent

People who are apathetic toward their own liberty cannot eliminate Constitutional rights for those who are not. This is not the first (or last) time that people who believe in superstition are screaming the loudest. The Constitution exists precisely to protect all during times of mass hysteria.

(Dr. Simone Gold – The Gold Opinion)  It is clear to me as a physician-lawyer that the disinformation about both Covid-19 and the Constitution has caused us to turn a medical issue into a legal crisis. Continue reading

Under Sworn Testimony, Planned Parenthood Officials Admit Infanticide Occurs In Organ Harvesting

American Jews Must Stand up to Structurally Anti-Semitic BLM

“Two aspects of the Shavuot pogrom expose the increasingly problematic nature of the relationship between the American Jewish community and the American left. … The first is the media’s indifference to anti-Jewish violence. Aside from a few Jewish reporters and Orthodox websites, the Shavuot pogrom was largely ignored. And when it was reported, the deliberately anti-Semitic character of the attacks was either downplayed or ignored altogether.”

(Caroline Glick – Frontpage Mag) The silence of the Jews of America in the face of rising anti-Semitism is stunning. Continue reading

Flynn targeted for destruction because he wanted to investigate Brennan’s ‘off the books’ billions of dollars at CIA?

(Thomas Lifson – American Thinker)  Sidney Powell, the tenacious lawyer who corrected the judicial abuse of her client, General Michael Flynn, is reminding us that she and her client believe he was originally targeted for destruction because he was aiming to investigate what he believes was serious corruption at the CIA under its director, John Brennan.  Via Lifezette:

Sidney Powell, attorney for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, said her client, in his duties as the White House national security adviser, was prepared to “audit” the U.S. intelligence community…. Continue reading

Lecrae Responds to Chick-fil-A CEO’s Shoe-shining Stunt, Calls it Virtue Signaling

“One of the things I was trying to communicate to him was…we can’t be doing this virtue-signaling of just having conversations about race so it look like we’re on the page. We really gotta be about this.”

(Jeff Maples – Reformation Charlotte)  Last week, Reformation Charlotte reported on the virtue-signaling stunt that Chick-fil-A CEO, Dan Cathy, pulled during a panel conversation with Louie Giglio where he got up, groveled at Lecrae’s feet, and shined his shoes because in an act of penance toward Lecrae because of the color of his skin…. Continue reading

Jeffrey Epstein celebrates Gay Pride from the grave

The “Convenient Death” book offers evidence that he used sex to acquire power and influence over others through blackmail. The authors cite Epstein’s relationship with a one-time CIA front company and add that Epstein “openly encouraged speculation that he was involved with intelligence agencies.” The implication is that Epstein used these sexual relationships, including homosexuality, to get what the intelligence agencies wanted out of his targets.

(Cliff Kincaid – Renew America)  Jeffrey Epstein’s deep and dark secret is out. He was a gay deceiver. Let’s remember this fact on Stonewall Day, June 26, as Barack Hussein Obama emerges from the shadows to celebrate the anti-police riots at the Mafia-run Stonewall Inn back in 1969. Continue reading

Armed St. Louis protesters broke iron gate, threatened couple before they drew their own guns

“Once through the gate, the victims advised the group that they were on a private street and trespassing and told them to leave. The group began yelling obscenities and threats of harm to both victims. When the victims observed multiple subjects who were armed, they then armed themselves and contacted police.”

(Stephanie Pagones – Fox News)  A Missouri couple under fire for brandishing guns in the front yard of their home as protesters passed told police the group broke a gate to get onto the private street, and the pair say they only retrieved their firearms when they spotted “multiple” people who were already armed, department records show. Continue reading