Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston I took the above picture of Fern Springs in Yosemite 11 years ago in the course of my pilgrimage. I played around with various filters and effects and loved the way it turned out. (Yeah, I know, don’t give up my day job.) It seems incongruous to the title of this piece, […]
Read More Gangster Government Gears up for WarBy Charlie Johnston Credible rumblings suggest that, before the spring is over, the Pope will effectively ban the Tridentine Mass altogether. While Pope Francis has made no secret of his contempt for the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), that may or may not be true. A classic tactic of battle, either political or actual, is to […]
Read More To Orthodox Catholic Bishops: Channel Your Inner DavidBy Charlie Johnston (I have been working on a piece directed to our orthodox Catholic Bishops. It is a sort of light version of the sort of strategic counsel I used to give public officials – and still do informally. I hope to have it ready this weekend. In the mean time, I repeat this […]
Read More The Future is what, Under God, We Make of it.By Charlie Johnston I am primarily an autodidact, someone who is self-taught. I have some formal training, primarily in history and economics, but in most everything else my work is entirely the result of my own constant study since nearly the time I began to read. The virtue of an autodidact is that he often […]
Read More A Path to WisdomBy Charlie Johnston Before honest people can work together effectively on the way forward for Western Civilization, they have to work through their grief over the death of the American Republic. The late Elisabeth Kubler-Ross proposed the Five Stages of Grief people go through in dealing with the catastrophic loss of a loved one. For […]
Read More Grieving the Death of the RepublicBy Charlie Johnston I have not yet seen the movie, “Nefarious,” but I intend to as soon as I finally get settled at home. Our own Sheryl Collmer, managing editor of the CORAC Newsletter, wrote a marvelous review of it for Crisis Magazine. By all accounts, the movie depicts the most realistic description in popular […]
Read More The Devil’s PlaygroundBy Charlie Johnston This Sunday, April 23, we will hold a global meeting via ZOOM – and you are invited. It will be at 7 pm Eastern Time (6 pm Central, 5 pm Mountain, and 4 pm Pacific). I will speak briefly of the challenges before us, the resources CORAC offers to navigate this storm […]
Read More You ARe Invited to Our Global Meeting Sunday.By Charlie Johnston I have lost my patience with commentators and conservative politicos who keep arguing that we will “get ‘em next time” because the “pendulum always swings back.” That is a sound observation when the clock is operating properly. But the left has broken off the pendulum of the clock of our republic, ripped […]
Read More The Left Has Smashed The PendulumBy Charlie Johnston Shawnee, Kansas – Chatting With the Devil For over a decade I have used the Bing search engine. A few days ago, Microsoft introduced the “new” Bing. Astonishingly, it is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. Instead of giving me a survey of options that could be related to my question, it just […]
Read More The Devil’s Last Stand BeginsBy Charlie Johnston South Bend, Indiana – In the 19th Chapter of 1 Kings, the prophet, Elijah, goes up in the mountain in search of God. While there he is buffeted by ferocious winds, a big earthquake, and the outbreak of a terrible fire. But God was in none of these. When a still, small […]
Read More The Seven Stages of Renewal
A Sign of Hope 