Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston Dallas, Texas – Ever since the turn of the millennium, I have argued that the left (in politics, media, and culture) has been following the path of dehumanizing opponents that is always the forerunner of prison and death camps. Ironically, murderously unhinged movements are almost always fueled by a bizarre sense of […]
Read More While Christians SleptBy Charlie Johnston Willowbrook, Houston, Texas – Two millennia ago, on this day, the crowd in Jerusalem called for the release of Barabbas, a murderous bandit, rather than Jesus. Pontius Pilate, the governor, was stunned that the crowd’s hatred and malice could be so great that they would choose to free someone who routinely murdered […]
Read More Choose or PerishBy Charlie Johnston Shawnee, Kansas – As I have been saying for months now, the power of darkness has been broken. You might wonder, if that is so, why is there so much strife and fury sounding across the land? Simple: when sunlight bursts upon a coven of vampires there is a lot of shrieking, […]
Read More As the Walls Come Tumbling Down…By Charlie Johnston Thank you for all your prayers. Keep it going. Gabriel will be okay. He was at a neighbor’s house, playing. The neighbor has five kids. One of them is a special needs child. For some unfathomable reason, the family had a loaded rifle sitting unattended on a table. Gabriel was playing a […]
Read More All Will be Well and All Manner of Things Will be WellBy Charlie Johnston Laurel, Maryland – Monday and Tuesday of this week were challenging…and rewarding. On Monday I went to pray at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in Solomon’s Island, Maryland. It sits right on a beautiful segment of the Chesapeake Bay. Turning left into the parking lot, I stupidly allowed myself to […]
Read More Cast Down From the High PlacesBy Charlie Johnston Ocala, Florida – The late Chicago Mayor, Richard J. Daley, had a saying I loved. “Good government is good politics and good politics is good government.” It was a memorable Chicago way of saying take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves. The late mayor […]
Read More Fiery Trials(There will be time enough to consider the challenges and opportunities before us as the New Year approaches. For now, it is time for God, family, and tradition. When I was a kid, Mom and Dad would wake us up around midnight, then we would sit on the floor around the tree and Dad would […]
Read More Joseph’s WayBy Charlie Johnston Thomasville, Georgia – Our own Steve Baker formulated one of the more penetrating questions to a piece I wrote a few days ago that I decided to answer his question in the form of another column. First, it would be good for you to look at the column in question (or, at […]
Read More Unifying the Spiritual and the MaterialQuaecumque Sunt Vera By Charlie Johnston In mythology, when sunlight bursts into a dark lair of vampires, a great shrieking and furious snarling fills the air as the vampires perish. I can’t help but notice that there is a lot of shrieking and snarling coming from the left lately. The American Spectator’s Scott McKay thinks […]
Read More Whatsoever is TrueBy Charlie Johnston Many have commented that my piece going into the New Year was very dark. I understand how it might seem that way, but it actually was not. Every great crisis involving some sort of great dysfunction has roughly four stages: revelation, confrontation, conflict and resolution. Ever since I started writing publicly about […]
Read More The Hope of the New Year
A Sign of Hope 