Abraham's Journey
By 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 IslamBoise, 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 IIBy 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 The older I get, the more I come to appreciate the wisdom of Jesus including Judas in His initial crew of Apostles. I am certain that Judas fully believed Jesus to be the Messiah. It is the only way the whole story makes sense. He was tired of traipsing around the desert […]
Read More ARe We There Yet?By Charlie Johnston “As the twig is bent, so grows the tree” – old Oxford proverb A few weeks ago, a fellow promised to cut off my tie if I wore one to a dinner I was to attend. Since I was not the main speaker at the event and it was at a […]
Read More TwigsBy 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 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. […]
Read More Beyond the FailsafeBy Charlie Johnston Sometime later today the Rocky Mountains will come into view and I will be within sight of home. Thanks be to God. It has been a very busy couple of weeks, but an incredibly productive one. I can’t wait to tell you about the amazing field day we had in Lone Rock, […]
Read More On TargetBy Charlie Johnston I was somewhat startled at the reaction to my last piece on my disaffection with Pope Francis and his crew of theological vandals. Oh, I had a few of the usual cranks who explained to me how I am wrong about everything or citing their simplistic literal take on some prophecy to […]
Read More Truth or ConsequencesBy Charlie Johnston Pinckney, Michigan – A couple of years ago, while discussing the depravities of the abortion industry with David Daleiden, I exclaimed, “There’s no bottom to this. Every time you think you have gotten to the bottom of something you discover a whole new chamber of horrors hidden beneath what you had already […]
Read More Cast Off the Cloak of Lies
A Sign of Hope 