Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston Shawnee, Kansas – Time for a couple of reality checks… First, the victory for pro-abortionists in conservative Ohio – by 13 points no less – means that pro-abortion politics is, indeed, driving turnout for the left. But it is not driving turnout from the right. The question is, “Why?” Let’s start with […]
Read More American Politics Isn’t Broke – It’s FixedBy Charlie Johnston Hays, Kansas – Our own Sheryl Collmer has a new piece up in Crisis Magazine on what I call the Synod to Nowhere. She and I are clearly on the same page on the subject, though her humor about it is a little kinder and gentler than my own. The “Synodal Church” […]
Read More When Disorder Metastasized Into EvilBy Charlie Johnston When I was a younger man (that is to say middle-aged and before), when public leaders erred and made things worse they would often make excuses or try to explain why it was not their fault. Tiresome, but a common human trait. It is only with the last three holders of the […]
Read More The New Backup PlanBy Charlie Johnston I have often spoken of how, many decades ago, I came to the understanding that authentic prophecy is not so much that men may fathom the mind of God as it is that they may see the spiritual reality behind certain temporal events. That means that a solid prophecy is cause for […]
Read More What is Truth?By Charlie Johnston Golden, Colorado – Perhaps the nicest thing about the new reality following the butchery by Hamas in Israel is the moral clarity it brings. If someone openly supports Hamas, calls for a ceasefire (to give Hamas time to reload), or asks me to think about the children Hamas uses as human shields […]
Read More The Devil is in the DetailsBy Charlie Johnston Mt. Meeker, Colorado – Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee. – John Donne Many Christians assume that Armageddon and the Apocalypse are synonymous. Up until about 25 years ago, I was one of them. The Apocalypse is the final sequence of events leading to the […]
Read More Welcome to ArmageddonBy Charlie Johnston Golden, Colorado –(I first posted the following article on November 20, 2015. I caught a lot of flack for it, despite a certain delicacy in my candor. We are governed by unserious people. The media consists almost entirely of unserious people. All the institutions we once relied upon and trusted are now […]
Read More The Simple Truth About Islam(The comments on my preface to Part II have triggered a thought. As I think we are very near showtime I think it may be a very good thing to do a concise, but comprehensive series on what I think is the appropriate response to the degenerating crises around us – and the principles upon […]
Read More Rules of Regency – Part IIIBoise, Idaho – (Before getting to the second installment of ROR, a comment or two… Yesterday, the national test of the Emergency Broadcast System came and went without triggering any national disaster or advent of martial law, just as it has every time it has been done before. There had been much speculation in the […]
Read More Rules of Regency – Part IIWoodburn, Oregon – (I am necessarily in a very compressed West Coast swing because I have to get back for an event at Mt. Meeker scheduled for Oct. 14 and 15. It is a nice, tight schedule, but it prevents me from getting all that I need to do finished in other areas. I am […]
Read More Rules of Regency – Part I
A Sign of Hope 