Abraham's Journey
By 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 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 Armageddon(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 IBy Charlie Johnston Yuba City, California – In the ‘90s there was a craze for what were called Magic Eye images. These were sheets of chaotic computer-generated patterns. When looked at the right way, a vivid, three-dimensional image unrelated to the pattern would jump out at you. Once you saw it, you could not not […]
Read More God’s Plan Begins to Reveal Itself – if You RelaxBy Charlie Johnston (Back when I was managing editor of a group of suburban newspapers, my political column that appeared in all papers was entitled, “Just Politics.” The title was actually specific to the newspaper group, having been used by four or five writers over the course of a quarter century. It became so identified […]
Read More Just PoliticsBy Charlie Johnston I had a different column ready to queue up today, but last night this idea hit me powerfully… Of late, I have been bombarded with messages from atheists saying stupid things like, “I wouldn’t follow a God who would kill His own son,” or “A God who would let children suffer is […]
Read More Trinitarian TruthsBy Charlie Johnston (I have been pondering this piece for several weeks. I think we have entered difficult new territory in an irrevocable way. For those who asked, no, I have not been sick since getting home – just working my way through this piece. It lays out our way forward as I see it. […]
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A Sign of Hope 