Get the First Principles Right…and All Else will Flow Clearly

By Charlie Johnston I have always been a big believer in what I call “First Things,” foundational principles which you then use as your interpretive template on all extrapolations. (Imagine my delight when, in 1990, the late Fr. Richard Neuhaus founded First Things Magazine – a profoundly orthodox Judeo-Christian publication that often has profound intellectual […]

A Hope and a future

By Charlie Johnston (Though it covers some old territory as a preliminary, this is a foundational piece. If you read nothing else, please read the last paragraph of the first item. It is critical, going forward. Sorry it is so long. I just didn’t have time to write a shorter piece – CJ) When I […]

We Are God’s Beloved

By Charlie Johnston There was a fellow I collaborated on five or six big campaigns with. It was a great partnership most of the time. He loved the administrative duties – which often weary me. I loved strategy and the field, meeting people, exhorting them, unifying them, laughing with them and fighting together with them. […]

The World’s Babel Moment Approaches

By Charlie Johnston I have thought long and hard about the world’s trajectory. It seems to me that God gave us a great gift, an opportunity for people of good will to start pushing back on the right track to rebuild a healthy culture. Still, I think we have a massive collapse coming, because we […]

By the Dawn’s Early Light

By Charlie Johnston It was late in the War of 1812, September 13, 1814, to be exact, just over three months before the war was formally ended. The British had unleashed a brutal attack of rockets and incendiary shells on Ft. McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. American patriots were fearful that Ft. McHenry – and perhaps […]

There Yet be Dragons

By Charlie Johnston Front Royal, Virginia – I am very optimistic. I have said repeatedly that the power of darkness is broken – and that we will win every battle that we press forward with vigor on, under God going forward. I stand by that. But by no means do I mean it is all […]

Update on Revival, the Manual

By Charlie Johnston Pelham, Alabama – For two and a half years I have been working on “Revival,” the CORAC manual and guide to building functioning communities. Let’s be brutally candid: if the forces fronted for by Kamala Harris had prevailed, civil war would have been quickly in our future. Both Harris and Walz had […]

Steady on…

By Charlie Johnston Tyler, Texas – Well, I killed another computer going into the end of the week. When you are constantly pounding away writing, a laptop PC has a shelf life of about three to three and a half years before some of the keys stop working. This time it was primarily the P […]

Insurrect This!

By Charlie Johnston Canterbury, New Hampshire – I am a fan of Harry Bosch, the tough, hard-bitten fictional Los Angeles Police Detective created by author Michael Connelly. Passionately devoted to justice, Bosch is nobody’s fool and not easily duped. The same cannot be said for Connelly – who is easily duped by his desire to […]

The Braveheart Election

(The piece below appeared in the latest issue of our CORAC National Newsletter. If you don’t already read the CORAC site, you should. If you miss an issue, you miss a lot. I am convinced that this election is not going to be a resolution of the battle that has been simmering in American society […]

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