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

Rob Bell to Teach Teens That Christian Beliefs About Hell are ‘Misguided and Toxic’

Rob Bell is set to release a teen version of his controversial book, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. Reporting on the upcoming release of Love Wins: For Teens and its accompanying promotional video, Christian News Network notes that “Bell explains that the book is designed to teach youth that God is the life of the party, rather than the one that spoils everyone’s fun.” View article →

The New Modern Family? Woman and Two Men Raise Son in ‘Polyamorous’ Relationship

Christian News Network reports:

ABC News recently aired a segment about a woman involved in what is called a polyamorous relationship — living with multiple boyfriends or girlfriends under one roof.

The woman, identified as Jaiya, began by living with her boyfriend Jon. However, because Jaiya wanted to have children and Jon didn’t, he suggested that she bring someone else into the picture that would conceive with her.

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Activists Don’t Care About Pain Babies Feel During Abortion

LifeNews (LN) reports that scientific evidence shows that unborn babies feel pain during abortion. Sadly, this fact makes no difference to many pro-aborts. “The way people respond to the scientific evidence that the unborn child feels pain speaks volumes,” says LN. “Some of us have taken what science shows and reacted by supporting laws protecting innocent unborn life. Others with exposure to the very same evidence have generated technology and an industry that literally destroys innocent human life–the abortion industry. View article →

The Case Against Women in Combat

Baptist Press (BP) informs us that:

Even before U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the military was lifting its ban on women in combat, professor and theologian Owen Strachan was speaking out against such a possibility, saying it not only went against Scripture but also defied common sense.

During an interview, one of several questions BP posed was: What are the biblical and theological reasons you oppose placing women in combat? View article →

Pro-Life Rally in DC Draws Big Crowd

Fox News reports that pro-life advocates packed the National Mall and surrounding streets for today’s March of Life:

Hundreds of thousands of pro-life demonstrators marched through Washington to the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to protest the landmark decision that legalized abortion.

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Abortion and the Will to Power

From LifeSite News:

An item came to my attention today in my daily inspection of the internet, asking a very pertinent question. And though I’m sure it was meant rhetorically, I thought I’d have a go at answering it. A short piece, clearly published in answer to the hundreds of thousands gathered this week on the Washington Mall demanding an end to the slaughter of children, asks, “So what if abortion ends life?”

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Celebrating 40 Years of Legal Infanticide

Christian Research Network correspondent Marsha West reminds us that 40 years ago today, Roe v. Wade became the law of the land and legal abortion became a way of life in America. “On a cold soggy January day in 1973,” she writes, “people gathered throughout America to celebrate women’s newfound freedom to abort their babies. No longer would the government have the right to intrude in ‘private family matters.’ On that same day others mourned as they contemplated the Court’s shocking decision to legalize infanticide.” View article →

Planned Parenthood’s New Pro-Abortion Ad Campaign, “Not In Her Shoes”

LifeNews reports:

Last week Planned Parenthood revealed a surprising new strategy, abandonment of the term, “pro-choice.” Its poll numbers showed 28.5% of voters identify themselves as both or neither … Planned Parenthood recognizes it already has the blue voters, and that it will never get the red voters, so it is trying to win over the ambivalent middle.

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Archbishop of the Church of Uganda Attacks Church of England Over Gay Bishops

New Vision reports:

The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda Stanley Ntagali has attacked the Church of England over its recent decision to allow gays to be consecrated as bishops.

Ntagali in a statement on Monday said, “It is very discouraging to hear that the Church of England, which once brought the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Uganda, has taken such a significant step away from that very gospel that brought life, light, and hope to us.”

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Premarital Sex?

Russell Moore, Dean of the School of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, addresses the loss of the words “fornicate” and “fornication” found in the Bible. These words have now been replaced with terms such as “abstinence” and “premarital sex.” Dr. Moore clarifies why these are not interchangeable. He believes,

This is important because the Scripture makes clear that “fornicators will not inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Cor. 6:9-10; Rev. 21:8). The language of “premarital sex” can enable a conscience to evade repentance. After all, if the problem is one merely of “timing” or of “waiting” then the problem is resolved once one is married. The event was in the past.

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