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

Star of ‘Two and a Half Men’ Urges Fans to Stop Watching, Calls Show ‘Filth’

Fox News reports that 19-year-old Angus T. Jones no longer wishes to be on the popular TV sitcom ‘Two and a Half Men.’ Jones, who attends a Seventh Day Adventist Church in Los Angeles, says that the sitcom contradicts his religious values. In a recent video, Jones pleads with viewers of ‘Two and a Half Men’ to stop watching the show and to stop “filling your head with filth.” View article →

Charlie Brown Embroiled in Christmas Controversy

A stage version of the holiday classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas” has “sparked a constitutional controversy” at a grade school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Parents were informed that students would be shuttled to and from an upcoming performance of the show at a nearby church. Fox News shares more of the story:

[A]t least one parent objected to the field trip and contacted the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers, a self-described community of atheists, agnostics and humanists.

“The problem is that it’s got religious content and it’s being performed in a religious venue and that doesn’t just blur the line between church and state — it oversteps it entirely,” attorney Anne Orsi told Arkansas Matters.

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Planned Parenthood Takes Credit for Re-Electing Obama

Life News reports:

Planned Parenthood has taken credit for pro-abortion President Barack Obama’s re-election by openly admitting that their political action committee’s plan relied on partisan scare-tactics.

The abortion conglomerate has been a long-time favorite of Barack Obama, and they were more than willing to spend whatever they had to make sure that their best supporter re-won the presidency – to the tune of $15 million.

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Federal Suit: Scientologist Spent $30 million to Cover Up Death of Member

10 News in Tampa Bay reports:

Blockbuster charges in a Federal Suit involving the Church of Scientology. It involves accusations of impropriety and some of the most respected members of the judiciary and legal profession.

The allegations are coming from the former number-two man in the organization, and involve what he says is a multi-million dollar cover up of the death of a woman in Scientology care.

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CBS’s Nancy Giles: Whites Want to Ban Abortion to “Build Up Race”

Life News reports:

A video featuring Nancy Giles of CBS is making the round this afternoon because it has her attacking white, pro-life Americans claiming they oppose abortion on racist grounds.

During the Melissa Harris-Perry Show on Saturday on MSNBC Giles said white Americans “trying to eliminate all these abortions” “to build up the race.”

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Mike Bickle Admits Catholic Contemplative Influence on IHOP-KC

John Lanagan of My Word Like Fire reports:

From the Office of Public Relations, Franciscan University of Steubenville, 11/9/12:

“The International House of Prayer (IHOP) was founded in 1999 by Mike Bickle, who says that many IHOP teachings draw upon the works of St. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila, as well as contemporary Catholics including Father Henri Nouwen and Father Thomas Dubay, SM. The IHOP 24 hour prayer room, he says, was inspired by the spiritual practices of Catholic European monks, such as St. Bernard of Clairvaux. ‘I’ve always had a passion for Catholic-Christian unity, and enthusiastically welcome this years Catholic track,’ says Bickle. ‘We may have different religious traditions, but we focus on fellowship, and unity and Jesus being glorified in prayer, worship, and teaching.’”

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Evangelist Blames Religious Leaders’ ‘Godless Government Gospel’ for Obama Presidency

Christian News Network shares the thoughts of Evangelist Michael Marcavage of Repent America on this most recent presidential election. According to this article, Marcavage believes that President Obama was re-elected due to “prominent evangelical leaders who demand morality in and by the government apart from the moral Lawgiver.” View article →

Controversial Pro-’Gay’ Evangelical Andrew Marin to Speak at Park Community Church in Chicago

Americans for Truth About Homosexualty reports on another example of compromise and liberal thought infiltrating the visible church:

Andrew Marin, the controversial founder and president of the Marin Foundation, is speaking next week at Park Community Church in Chicago. This is surprising in that from its website Park Community appears to be a theologically orthodox church.

Marin promotes himself as a bridge-builder between the Christian community and the homosexual community and has written a book on the subject titled Love is an Orientation. It is not Marin’s desire to reach the unsaved that is troubling. We should all seek to bring the good news of Christ’s redemptive work to those who identify as homosexual. Rather, it is his approach and his theology that generate controversy and trouble many Christians.

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Exit Poll: 21% of Evangelical Voters Supported Barack Obama

Life News reports this disturbing news:

Exit polling data has shown the number of evangelical voters was higher in 2012 than in the 2008 election — in what should have been a good sign for the pro-life movement and GOP candidate Mitt Romney.

However, further analysis of the data shows that even though pro-abortion President Barack Obama lost among white evangelical Protestants and white Catholics, almost one-quarter of evangelicals voted for him despite his massive pro-abortion record.

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Serious Bible Readers Are Not Serious Sinners

Pastor and writer Daryl Wingerd asserts:

The true Christian who becomes absorbed in the study of God’s word, who spends the largest percentage of his otherwise unallocated time in serious, concentrated and thoughtful Bible reading, who orders his life around this pursuit and the behaviors that flow naturally from it, will rarely suffer long-term defeat in his battle against sin.

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The Trouble with TBN

Amid all the scandals besieging the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) in recent years, Christianity Today wonders if mainstream ministries such as Billy and Franklin Graham, Charles Stanley and the late Adrian Rogers, whose shows appear on TBN, should seek reform or pull their programming. View article →

College Allows Transgender Man to Expose Himself to Young Girls

Fox News reports a rather disturbing story:

A Washington college said their non-discrimination policy prevents them from stopping a transgender man from exposing himself to young girls inside a women’s locker room, according to a group of concerned parents.

“Little girls should not be exposed to naked men, period,” said David Hacker, senior legal counsel with the Alliance Defending Freedom. A group of concerned parents contacted the legal firm for help.

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Bishop to Pro-Abort Catholic Politicians, Bureaucrats, Voters: ‘God Is Not Mocked’

CNS News reports:

In a letter to be read in the Catholic churches of the diocese of Peoria, Illinois at all Masses this weekend, two days before the election, Bishop Daniel Jenky equates pro-abortion Catholic politicians and the people who vote for them with the mob that rejected Jesus Christ over Caesar and warns that “God is not mocked.”

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Second Plaintiff Beats HHS Abortion Mandate in Court

Life News reports:

Another plaintiff has won a court ruling against the Obama administration’s abortion pill mandate.

Federal District Court Judge Robert H. Cleland of the Eastern District of Michigan issued an opinion yesterday evening granting a motion for Preliminary Injunction that effectively halts enforcement of the HHS mandate against Plaintiffs Weingartz Supply Company and its owner and president, Daniel Weingartz.

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Student Defies Christian College Administration and Shows Reality of Abortion

Life Site News reports:

For three years pro-life student Seth Gruber petitioned the College Student Association and Executive Team at his Evangelical Christian college, Westmont, located in Santa Barbara, California, to allow him to sponsor the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform’s Genocide Awareness Project on campus.

For three years they said no.

Finally, on the morning of October 23, Seth decided to show the reality of abortion to students anyway.

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Shocking Obama Ad Copies from Vladimir Putin

Life News reports:

The shocking ad from the Obama campaign that compares voting to sex and first-time voting to losing one’s virginity is a copycat of an ad released during a Russian election campaign by Vladimir Putin. The Putin ad was also intended to appeal to younger voters based on sexual themes.

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Billy Graham, John Piper Urge Christians to Vote

Evangelical leaders are increasingly voicing their opinions regarding next month’s U.S. presidential election. Fox News reports on Billy Graham’s efforts:

Billy Graham is featured in a national advertising campaign calling America back to God and urging Americans to “vote for biblical values” on Nov. 6th.

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The Christian Post also informs readers that John Piper has joined the conversation:

“Having read several articles by people who don’t plan to vote in the presidential election, my conclusion is: I’m going to vote,” [Piper] wrote in a blog Tuesday.

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Did Jesus Have a Wife? Scholar Calls Parchment ‘Forgery’

The story surrounding the discovery of a so-called “gospel of Jesus’ wife” has not yet been laid to rest. Jeremy Hsu explains in a piece at Fox News that university scholars and professors have been busy talking through blogs, Facebook and e-lists, sharing their research and constructing feasible theories based on the evidence they discovered. Their conclusion? The fragment of papyrus is a forgery. View article →