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

Trump reveals the next industry that will face imminent ‘major’ tariffs

(Emma Colton – Fox Business) President Donald Trump previewed on Tuesday evening that the pharmaceutical industry will be the next to face a “major” tariff.

“We’re going to tariff our pharmaceuticals. And once we do that, they’re going to come rushing back into our country, because we’re a big market. The advantage we have over everybody, is that we’re the big market,” Trump said on Tuesday evening during the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual presidential dinner. Continue reading

Southern Baptist Mega-Circus Leaves SBC, Progressives Shed Tears

“NewSpring boasts over 10,000 members and thirteen campuses. Thirteen stages. Thirteen giving kiosks. Thirteen live-streamed sermons dressed up in leather jackets and emotional manipulation. That kind of operation pays dues. That kind of machine oils the SBC gears. When they leave, it’s not theology that’s threatened—it’s funding. It’s influence. It’s access. It’s market share.”

(The Dissenter) Good riddance! There, I said it. NewSpring Church has officially joined the ranks of spiritual circus tents that have packed up and left the Southern Baptist Convention, and frankly, the SBC should be sending them a thank-you note, not a love letter. Continue reading

Disturbing New Details Emerge About the Second Plot to Assassinate Trump

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) The left has become so radicalized by its hatred of Donald Trump that it is beyond the point of differentiating between right and wrong. As we previously reported, a recent study from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) found roughly half of the political left think that assassinating Donald Trump or Elon Musk is morally justifiable.

“What was formerly taboo culturally has become acceptable,” explained Joel Finkelstein, the founder of NCRI. “We are seeing a clear shift — glorification, increased attempts, and changing norms—all converging into what we define as ‘assassination culture.’” Continue reading

NASA astronaut stranded in space gives glory to Jesus

“He teaches us when he says in his Word about being content in all situations because he’s working out his plan and his purposes for his glory and our good, and I believe that because the Bible says that. It doesn’t mean there’s no pain, but content and knowing that God’s in control: a sovereign God’s in control, working out his plan and his purpose.”

(Ben Zeisloft – The Sentinel)  astronaut Butch Wilmore has pointed toward his Christian faith in the days since he and colleague Suni Williams returned to earth following several months of being stranded in space. Continue reading

‘Managing a Massive Amount of Requests’: Countries Clamoring for a Trump Trade Deal

“I just had a great call with the Acting President of South Korea. We talked about their tremendous and unsustainable Surplus, Tariffs, Shipbuilding, large scale purchase of U.S. LNG, their joint venture in an Alaska Pipeline, and payment for the big time Military Protection we provide to South Korea….” 

(Katie Pavlich – Townhall) Speaking from the White House during an interview with Fox News Tuesday morning, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hasset revealed dozens of countries are pounding on the door for a tariff deal and that managing the number of requests for meetings is becoming difficult. Continue reading

What Is Sin?

“I’m not saying that obedience always brings happiness and sin sadness. Yet the Bible teaches again and again that “the way of transgressors is hard” (Prov. 13:15 KJV) and “thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked” (Prov. 22:5).” 

(J. Garrett Kell – Crossway) The Battle with Sin

One catechism defines sin this way: “What is sin? Sin is rejecting or ignoring God in the world he created, not being or doing what he requires in his law.”1 Or as artist Shai Linne says, “What is sin? Sin is the breaking of God’s law plus our condition, which means from birth we all got flaws.” Continue reading

Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin to Enforce Deportations of Gang Members Under Alien Enemies Act

Attorney General Pam Bondi responded to the Supreme Court’s decision and described it as a “landmark victory for the rule of law. An activist judge in Washington, DC does not have the jurisdiction to seize control of President Trump’s authority to conduct foreign policy and keep the American people safe. The Department of Justice will continue fighting in court to make America safe again.”

(Elizabeth Weibel – Breitbart) The Supreme Court of the United States lifted a block from U.S. District Judges James Boasberg, which prevented the Trump administration from deporting suspected illegal alien gang members under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. Continue reading

Remember, MAGA: This is No Time to Go Wobbly

“Stop complaining about tariffs, expecting miraculous results after only a few days. A person who is overweight, unhealthy, and addicted to junk food won’t suddenly become healthy after just a week of dieting and exercising. Be patient, and don’t get wobbly. The tariffs from Trump’s first term did not trigger the predicted inflation. Allow the process to unfold instead of reacting with hair-on-fire histrionics.”

(Brian Joondeph – American Thinker) British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once reprimanded President George H.W. Bush with: “This is no time to go wobbly.”

A variation of those words, for MAGA now, seem appropriate.

Thatcher’s words occurred in 1990 when Bush considered how to respond to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait – whether to adopt a military response or not. Continue reading

Cotton Candy Faith: How Popular Women’s Bible Teachers Are Leading Many Astray

“They were marketed as relatable, down-to-earth, and winsome—code, of course, for doctrinally neutered, emotionally indulgent, and conveniently soft on everything that matters. Their rise wasn’t organic. It was orchestrated. If Christian publishing were a dating app, these lady-preachers were the algorithm-approved matches for a generation of women who think discernment is a spiritual gift for mean people.”

(The Dissenter) It’s been said that if you want to see the theological temperature of the modern American church, you don’t go to the pulpit—you go to the fellowship hall, where a circle of women sit cradling pastel-covered workbooks with Beth Moore’s name stamped across the front like a branding iron. The giggles are warm, the tears are real, the coffee is mediocre, and the doctrine is nowhere to be found. Continue reading

Paganicon 2025 – Re-enchantment and Neopaganism

“Some had come from churches whose mystical practices, though alleged to be biblical, were not all that different than the mystical practices of the paganism they have embraced.  Some people found more acceptance and community among the pagans. One of our team spent time in the hospitality room of the Satanists, and one of the first things the Satanists told him was that approximately 50% of their members are LGBTQA+ and Transgender.” 

(Don & Joy Veinot – Midwestern Christian Outreach) Some have asked why we attend events like Paganicon. After all, we are Christians, not pagans. Some of the leadership at Paganicon asked us the same question; why were we attending their event? They were concerned we might stir up trouble…. Continue reading

Research: Deliverance Ministry

Following is an excerpt from “Gladiator-style takedown of demonic forces, part 1”:

A large number of Christians throughout the world consider themselves to be spiritual warfare prayer warriors. What they do is known as “intercessory prayer.” Most likely these prayer warriors are connected to a deliverance ministry. Deliverance ministers use “strategic level prayer” to “bind” the “territorial spirits” to remove demons who are in control of organizations, communities, cities and in some cases entire nations so that evangelism will go unimpeded. These demon fighting gladiators believe that poverty and other societal troubles will not be eliminated until “demonic strongholds” are torn down and demons are “bound.”

The aim of the Spiritual Warfare movement (SWM) is to take “dominion” over societal institutions and government. Once they have accomplished this lofty goal they’ll take over the kingdoms of this world and build a literal Kingdom of God on earth. This is known as Kingdom Theology. The aim of the Spiritual Warfare movement (SWM) is to take “dominion” over societal institutions and government. Once they have accomplished this lofty goal they’ll take over the kingdoms of this world and build a literal Kingdom of God on earth. This is known as Kingdom Theology. Continue reading

RESIGN: Justice Roberts’ secret friendship with Norm Eisen has been revealed…

“The story of Norm Eisen—a key architect of nearly every attempt to delegitimize, impeach, censor, sue, and remove the democratically elected 45th President of the United States—is a tale that winds through nearly every facet of the color revolution playbook.”

(Revolver) After you finish this blog, you’ll be asking the million-dollar question: Why is Chief Justice John Roberts hanging out with the Deep State’s #1 color revolution architect?

Turns out the left’s favorite “Republican” has some very interesting buddies. Continue reading

The Clash Between Trump and Activist Judges Is About to Go Nuclear

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) As President Donald Trump attempts to enact the agenda that Americans elected him to do, a serious showdown is brewing with federal judges who have taken it upon themselves to challenge his directives.

Officials close to the administration are signaling that activist judges who oppose Trump’s orders may soon face accountability for their rogue decisions after yet another activist judge blocked its efforts to remove intelligence agency employees connected to DEI programs.  Continue reading

Science Begins to Unlock the Mystery of How Near-Death Experiences Arise in the Brain

“For far too long, scientists scoffed at the notion of near-death experiences being anything more than the random firing of neurons when the brain begins to die or, because the experience has been so well documented and has become part of the culture, that near-death survivors are reporting on myths they heard before their experience.” 

(Rick Moran – PJ Media) Five years ago, last Sunday evening, I was getting ready for bed when I stopped breathing. I experienced a massive heart attack or a myocardial infarction. Doctors referred to this kind of heart attack as a “widow maker.” Continue reading

Christian father brings adopted baby conceived in rape to testify against abortion

Jeff Durbin of Apologia Church photo

(Ben Zeisloft – The Sentinel) Dr. Coleman Boyd, a longtime physician and Christian anti-abortion activist, is the father of thirteen children, nine of whom were born to him and his wife and four of whom were adopted.

When a bill to establish equal protection for preborn babies was debated in Georgia last week, he brought his almost two-year-old daughter, Hadassah, from their home in Mississippi to the hearing in Atlanta, contending that the legislation should be passed to save children like her.

That is because Hadassah was conceived in rape by a thirteen-year-old mother who chose life for her daughter. Boyd told state lawmakers in Georgia that the life of his little girl was worth protecting in the same manner as every other human being who bears the image of God. Continue reading

Trump’s Tariffs Will Not Cause Inflation

(Spencer P. Morrison – American Thinker) On April 2, Liberation Day, President Trump imposed reciprocal tariffs across the board. The President noted that they were “kind” tariffs, since they were only half the rate that American producers are charged. For now, at least.

Critics have lamented that tariffs will raise the cost of goods, as if the Constitution codified the right to buy “cheap” Chinese goods.

While there will be an adjustment period — as with any major policy shift — tariffs will not cause inflation in the long term. In fact, they will likely lower the cost of goods over time. Continue reading

America Is Back! March Jobs Report Crushes Expectations

“What makes this even more impressive? This happened while Elon Musk was busy draining the swamp through the Department of Government Efficiency. For weeks now, the narrative has been that Trump and Musk were killing jobs. Well, how ridiculous does that narrative sound now?”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) After weeks of the mainstream media and the Democrats pushing the narrative that Trump has been a disaster for the economy, the March jobs report just blew that narrative out of the water. If this report tells us anything, it’s that after just a few short months of cleaning up the disastrous Biden-Harris mess, America is back. Continue reading

Spiritual Warfare Post

CRN’s new research paper on Spiritual Warfare was inadvertently sent to our subscribers. Oops! What was sent is a draft, not meant for publication at this time. Please do not share it. God willing, the final version will be sent out in the next week or so.

Thank you!

Marsha West, CRN Managing Editor

Sane new world?:Gender insanity may be fading, but Christians shouldn’t lean too much into ‘vibe shifts’

“Between Palm Sunday and Good Friday, Jerusalem experienced a dramatic transformation in the popular attitude to Christ. The crowd heralded Him as the coming King when He entered the city on a donkey. Days later the mob called for His crucifixion even when offered a chance to have Him released by the Roman governor. My suspicion is that a significant number of the adoring crowd became the murderous mob. Today we call that a vibe shift.” 

(Carl Trueman) With the second coming of Donald Trump, the phrase “vibe shift” has become a staple of­ current cultural commentary. The expression captures not so much the shift in the kind of policies that the Trump administration will implement as a shift in the ethos of America. The hectoring scolds of the progressive left have dominated public rhetoric for years. Now suddenly conservatives once despised as either stupid, evil, or both are starting to feel that this age might belong to them. Continue reading

Here’s another reason get shingles vaccine: It may fight dementia

(Associated Press) A vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one – shots that prevent painful shingles also appear to protect aging brains.

A new study found that shingles vaccination cut older adults’ risk of developing dementia over the next seven years by 20%.

The research, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, is part of growing understanding about how many factors influence brain health as we age – and what we can do about it. Continue reading

Anecdotes from the Time of Autism

“Dropping Asperger’s was a political decision, not a scientific one.  The “autism spectrum” serves a numbers-boosting political purpose, like the mash-up “LGBTQ.”  That a group of extremely prevalent, incurable neurological abnormalities remain in the politicized Play-Doh psychiatric nomenclature is disgraceful.”

(Deborah C. Tyler – American Thinker) At my 50th high school reunion, a classmate came bounding up to me like a kid on Christmas morning.  “Debby!  Debby!  I have Asperger’s, I have Asperger’s!”

In junior high, Bobby was the acknowledged “math brain.”  Back then, decades before the internet or social media, girls did not bully in the current sense, or physically fight…. Continue reading

Proof the FBI Was Weaponized

“The FBI campaign to discredit the Post story continued even after its October 14, 2020, publication. That morning, one FBI analyst tried telling Twitter the laptop was real—until his bosses silenced him.”

(Mary Dowling) The Republican House Judiciary Committee reported that the FBI mandated a gag order on the Hunter Biden laptop story the day it came out, as shown by chat logs.

The FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop. However, on the day the NY Post story came out, the FBI refused to tell Big Tech the truth. They actually told them the opposite of the truth. Continue reading

Andrew Isker Calls Out Tim Keller For Seeker Sensitivity On Tucker Carlson

“The comparison between Rick Warren and Tim Keller seems farfetched at first, but both pioneered separate seeker-sensitive methods for their respective markets. Tim Keller was simply more erudite about it.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Andrew Isker is a thought leader in the Christian Nationalist movement. The announcement that he was to be interviewed on Tucker Carlson made a lot of the right people mad and ultimately envious. Andrew Isker wrote The Boniface Option, which aims to help identify what he calls Trashworld and offer solutions to specific problems facing Christians. Tucker Carlson  interviewing Isker is an optimistic development for the movement. Continue reading