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

The Dominion of Fox News: Revelations in a defamation suit damage the network’s credibility

“We could go on (and on and on), but you get the gist. The Times, the Post, and CNN are part of a cabal of Democrat propagandists. The Leftmedia peddles lies deliberately and always. Fox News was a little too slow to stop one for a few weeks.”

(Nate Jackson – The Patriot Post) The 2020 presidential election was at best tainted. Was it “stolen”? That depends on what you mean. We’ve argued from the beginning that Democrats undermined the integrity of the election with pandemic-justified changes to election law, such as growing Election Day into election season and greatly expanding mail-in voting. Big Tech and Big Media suppressed damning news about Joe Biden’s corruption, censored conservatives, and harangued President Donald Trump. Continue reading

J.K. Rowling Wins Again: ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ One of the Fastest Selling Games Despite Woke Efforts to Cancel It

“The trans crowd isn’t — and I’d put money on this — nearly as big as the rotten woke media would have us believe. Of course, the members of the trans crowd are brainwashed so they actually believe the hype and think they’re a force to be reckoned with.”

(Stephen Kruiser – PJ Media)  Author J.K. Rowling has been in a very public battle with the alphabet pride woke mob for several years now. Rowling continues to believe in science, which doesn’t go over well with the people who insist that there are 746 genders. Much to its chagrin, the mob has found that Harry Potter has made Rowling cancel-proof. Continue reading

Bible Answer Man, Hank Hanegraaff, Platforms Open Homosexual to Help ‘Save the West’

(The Dissenter) For a man who has dubbed himself the “Bible Answer Man,” he sure doesn’t strike much when it comes to the Bible. You may remember several years ago, I broke the story wide open that Hank Hanegraaff has departed the Christian faith to join the Greek Orthodox Church. That story went viral and I personally took a lot of heat, especially from the Orthodox community, that I was unwilling to label Hanegraaff and the Orthodox Church as true expressions of Christianity. Continue reading

The Greatest Cover-up in Human History

“Herein lies a lesson: A huge number of people have decided that there are a cadre of people who are so vile that any opinion they touch is immediately toxified beyond investigation. Claims are not to be evaluated on their own merits; instead, we can simply determine whether a claim ought to be supported based on those who posit it.”

(Ben Shapiro – Townhall) First, it was supposedly a conspiracy theory.

Then, it was banned.

Finally, it was true. Continue reading

Sixth-Grader Reads to School Board From Gay Sex Book Displayed at His School

Watch the video.

(Catherine Salgado – PJ Media) Middle-school librarians now think homosexual pornography is appropriate reading material for 11-year-old students.

Eleven-year-old sixth grader Knox Zijac got up at a school board meeting to read a page from the book Nick and Charlie, which is about a homosexual couple having sex. This explicit book was a featured novel on a display stand in his middle school library, according to Knox…. Continue reading

Common Artificial Sweetener Linked to Cardiovascular Disease

“Artificial sweeteners are implicated in numerous other undesirable health outcomes such as bladder cancer and brain tumors.”

(Ben Bartee – PJ Media) An artificial sweetener called erythritol  commonly used in processed foods is linked to heart attacks and strokes in a new study.

Via Nature:

Artificial sweeteners are widely used sugar substitutes, but little is known about their long-term effects on cardiometabolic disease risks…. Continue reading

Greg Laurie’s ‘Jesus Revolution’ Presents a False Gospel That Forgoes Real Repentance

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“As with nearly all celebrity Christian luminaries, there comes a time when the message they deliver has become so devoid of any convicting biblical substance that nearly anyone, whether they profess Christ or not, will be lured in by their seductive charisma. Their following essentially becomes a cult of personality, and their notoriety gains them indiscriminate immunity from nearly all criticism.”

(The Dissenter) You’ve probably heard of the recently released Jesus Revolution movie that’s based on Greg Laurie’s book by the same name. The movie is being promoted by several high-profile Evangelicals including former Southern Baptist president, James Merritt and former U.S. Vice President, Mike Pence. Continue reading

After Asbury Revival Leaves Campus for Non-Existent ‘New Location’, Attendance and Interest Collapses

“One Christian group, The Pulse*, wanting to capitalize on the spirit of Asbury, rented out Rupp Arena on Sunday, advertising a revival from 2 pm-11 pm to have a time of “repentance, testimonies, scripture, and worship” that was not in any way officially associated with the university.”

(Protestia) For twelve days, tens of thousands of revival chasers from around the world descended on the small city of Wilmore, KY, to experience firsthand the so-called ‘Asbury Revival.’ Supporters called this the next big thing, claiming it would sweep across America like other historical revivals and set the world on fire as they scrambled to occupy the now iconic Hughes Auditorium. Continue reading

Dr. Fauci blasted over new revelations about COVID lab leak: ‘We need to crack this egg open’

“We crazy right-wing nutjobs keep getting proven to have been correct about, well, everything, when it comes to COVID.” – Stephen Kruiser

(Fox News) New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R) said on ‘Fox & Friends First’ Monday the American people want the truth about the origins of COVID after hearing repeated lies and “misinformation” from Dr. Anthony Fauci and officials. Van Drew, a former Democrat, said American taxpayer money was used to fund the research at a China lab where the virus is suspected to have leaked. Continue reading

Jen Wilkin’s Horrendous Defense of Public Schools

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) The Gospel Coalition has the second season of their so-called “Good Faith Debates” which have largely been characterized as lacking a clear conservative representation, as a good faith debate would necessitate a real debate. And while the public school debate presents an easy opportunity to voice that position, Jen Wilkin’s defense of public schooling your children goes above and beyond what is normally said. She believes that Christians have a moral obligation to utilize public schools if at all possible. Continue reading

Are evangelical leaders as courageous as J.K. Rowling?

“…it is surely now time that the flagship evangelical organizations speak out too, using their broad appeal and status to have a real impact on the debate. It would be wonderful if Christianity Today were to run a series of detransition narratives, or Wheaton College host a conference on the damage that trans ideology is doing to children and to families. Such things would help confused parents and pastors.”

(Carl Trueman – World) It is a well-established trope today that evangelical Christians were on the wrong side of cultural debates in the past and that present generations must therefore do public penance, whether the issue is racism or sexism or whatever. That raises the question of what issues the evangelical establishment might be misjudging today that will lead to future disdain towards this generation of evangelical leadership. Here is my suggestion: the issue of transgender ideology. Continue reading

The Groomers Are Winning

“If it was about acceptance and not innate wiring, why is it that only Gen Z and Millennials have seen a rise in LGBTQ+ identification? All the other generations have remained steady percentage wise. Why this sudden jump overall?”

(Emmy Griffin – The Patriot Post) Last Friday, Gallup published an article on a poll it conducted regarding the percentage of the population that identifies as LGBTQ+. There were several interesting trends that it uncovered.

7.2% of the population now identifies as LGBTQ+. Gallup’s polling now includes the identifiers “queer,” “pansexual,” and “asexual,” which broadened the spectrum somewhat. Continue reading

Catholic Cardinal Opens ‘Abrahamic Family House’ With Muslims Praying Prayers Denouncing Jews and Christians

If you’re a pious Muslim who prays the five requisite daily prayers of Islam, you will recite the Fatiha seventeen times in the course of those prayers. The final two verses of the Fatiha ask Allah: “Guide us to the straight path, the path of those whom you have favored [Islam], not of those who have earned your anger, or of those who have gone astray.”

(Robert Spencer – PJ Media) Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald, the Roman Catholic Church’s apostolic nuncio emeritus to Egypt and apostolic delegate emeritus to the Arab League, as well as a past president of the Pontifical Council for Irreligious, er, that is, Interreligious Dialogue, on Sunday represented Pope Francis at the first prayer service in St. Francis of Assisi Church in Abu Dhabi, which is part of the new Abrahamic Family House, an interfaith shrine that comprises not just a church, but also a synagogue and a mosque. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty. Continue reading

Walt Disney’s Waltz with LGBTQ

“I don’t want the public to see the world they live in while they’re in the park. I want them to feel they’re in another world.”

(Tiffany Layne) In the last entry, “Gay Rom-Coms: The Final Frontier?” we revealed Hollywood and the alphabet community’s delusions of grandeur in communities it professes to serve. Its own self-aggrandizement forever eclipses any possibility of consideration for the harm it inflicts. With this in mind, our children’s minds and futures are clearly but collateral damage in the wake of pursuing their own agendas. Continue reading

Detransitioner Chloe Cole announces lawsuit against hospital for performing ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries on her as a minor

(Harris Rigby – Not the Bee) Chloe Cole is one of the most outspoken advocates for children and young adults who were preyed upon by the “kind and compassionate” “gender-affirmation” industry.

Cole has been advocating for detransitioners and now, in a historic first, Cole is suing the butchers who performed a “sex-change” operation on her as a minor.

Chloe Cole, a detransitioned 18-year-old woman, announced the first official lawsuit in the U.S. against the hospital and affiliated medical group that facilitated her medical transition as a minor. Continue reading

Seven Reasons Why We Should Not Accept Millions of Years

“God’s Word must be the final authority on all matters about which it speaks: not just the moral and spiritual matters, but also its teachings that bear on history, archeology, and science.”

(Terry Mortenson – Answers In Genesis) There is an intensifying controversy in the church all over the world regarding the age of the earth. For the first 18 centuries of church history, the almost universal belief of Christians was that God created the world in six literal days, roughly 4,000 years before Christ, and destroyed the world with a global Flood at the time of Noah. Continue reading

Disney World was our destination. What I found could be the end for a beloved American company

“Magic Kingdom closed the Splash Mountain ride because … well, no one is really sure why. The movie on which it is based is called “Song of the South,” and the film is referred to as “controversial” in articles about the ride closing, but it’s unclear what that controversy is.”  

(Karol Markowicz – Fox News) I hold grudges against companies. We don’t wear Nike, because the company embraced America-hating former quarterback Colin Kaepernick, and for a family with two immigrant parents, blessed to be Americans, we cannot abide this. I stopped using Gillette products when their ad tore into boys and men as angry possible rapists…. Continue reading

NY Times: Masks Don’t Work – It Doesn’t Matter What Kind

What about the studies that initially persuaded policymakers to impose mask mandates? “They were convinced by nonrandomized studies, flawed observational studies.”

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) The NY Times finally admitted that masks don’t work, and it doesn’t matter what kind of mask you wear. It won’t work. This is the conclusion reached by the definitive Cochrane study. It took the Times a month to say something about it, but they eventually had to do it. We had this information from other studies, but this one sealed the deal. Continue reading

Francis Chan to Host Ecumenical ‘Collegiate Day of Prayer’ at Asbury University Tonight

“With the aberrant movements and leadership involved in this movement, is it any wonder why conservative Christians are so skeptical of this “revival”? Why should we believe that true revival is happening within a movement that has exchanged the gospel for social justice and promotes homosexuality? What you see here is exactly what you’re going to see in the Collegiate Day of Prayer movement.” 

(The Dissenter) As we reported last week, the so-called “spontaneous revival” at Asbury University that has been going on since February 8 may not have been quite so spontaneous after all. In fact, as far back as last November, Francis Chan announced he would be hosting a “revival” meeting at Asbury University in February—and, today is that day. Continue reading

Anatomy of a Cover-up: The January 6 Tapes…Where Truth Will Be Found.

Axios reported that Carlson’s team has 41,000 hours of raw footage—nearly three times the amount that the Justice Department allowed into evidence, which only covered the time period between noon and 8:00 p.m. on January 6. The tapes now in Carlson’s possession apparently covers the entire 24-hour period from “multiple camera angles from all over Capitol grounds.”

(Julie Kelly – American Greatness) Tucker Carlson now has the equivalent of nearly five years of surveillance footage captured by U.S. Capitol Police security cameras on January 6, 2021. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) turned over the tapes to the Fox News host  earlier this month, according to Axios. Carlson’s producers and researchers are already distilling the footage; the first round of clips is expected to air [on Fox Nation] in a few weeks. Continue reading

Kenneth Copeland Prophesies, Says God is Giving Heidi Baker the United States

“Her claim to Apostolic authority is deeply troubling. The Bible clearly teaches that the office of Apostle was reserved for the twelve apostles chosen by Jesus, and that no one can claim to be an apostle today. Heidi Baker’s claim to Apostolic authority is a clear sign that she is operating outside of the biblical parameters for church leadership. But that didn’t stop Copeland from telling her that God is giving her the United States.”

(The Dissenter) During a recent “prophetic” session at his church, false teacher, false prophet, charlatan, and arch-heretic Kenneth Copeland who is best known for his incessant blasphemies against God “prophesied over false prophet, Heidi Baker, telling her that God was giving her the United States. Continue reading

The Alpha Course…or Alpha

“Conversions in Alpha come differently from this. More often than not it is an emotional experience about the love of God but without any understanding of holiness or the need to be saved from our sins. There is no recognition of the need to repent and to turn to God as a matter of life and death. People feel forgiven but do not seem to have realized the depth of their sinfulness or repented of their sin. People feel cleansed without having consciously put their faith in Christ. Often this happens when people are in some ecstatic state. Alpha may regard this as conversion but it is not what we find in the Bible.”

(Chris Hand) Many people have been greatly impressed by the Alpha course [now Alpha]. Designed to be an introduction to the Christian faith through talks, video presentations, small-group discussions and a special weekend-away, lots of churches are now employing it as part of their outreach. Continue reading

Lies Abound in Liberal Christianity Today’s Rehashed Smear Piece on John MacArthur

In the same post, Cho hinted at “other GCC matters that have come to [his] attention,” and issued a coy threat that he may or may not go public with them depending on “the nature and extent of the response (if any) from GCC and its allies.”

(David Morrill – Protestia) Another Shepherds Conference, another run at trying to destroy John MacArthur.

Personal baggage, threats, and long-disproven claims drive the tabloid salaciousness of Christianity Today’s rehash of the 20+ year-old Eileen and David Gray saga. The most damning evidence: Contrary to the narrative forwarded in Kate Shellnutt’s article, Grace Community Church elders did NOT commission disgruntled former elder Hohn Cho to investigate the church’s conduct in relation to the 20-year-old case of Eileen and David Gray. Continue reading