Email from OCPAC Remembering Michael Reagan and His Words to the Church Published Monday, January 12, 2026 SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. SAVE THE DATE! WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 4 NOON OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER MULTIPLE SPEAKERS INCLUDING THE BACK STORY: REMOVING MADURO FORMER SPECIAL FORCES PILOT SENATOR KELLY HINES Senator Hines will provide details on how this unit trains and the mechanics of the operation which will continue to be a major point of interest in 2026. Hines served over seven year with the 160th Special Operations aviation Regiment (SOAR), the unit which captured Maduro. Was it the right thing to do? Senator Hines says it was absolutely the right thing to do! CHRISTIANITY MUST BE ICONOCLASTIC Last week, President Ronald Reagan’s son, Michael, breathed his last. The statement from the family read: “Michael was called home to be with the Lord” Through his books, his writing, his speaking, and his broadcasting, Michael Reagan championed the legacy of his father. The funeral will be held this coming Wednesday morning. Should any of you care to make a trip to southern California and attend, please let me know! Twelve years ago, Michael Reagan wrote in a syndicated column that the American church was not doing its job to engage in America’s cultural battles. He blamed our pulpits for failing to lead their congregations in a public stand against “same sex marriage.” It was a strong rebuke to America’s pulpits and pews for their lack of passion to preserve the cultural integrity of the nation and hence, our form of government. On Thursday, October 11, 1798, John Adams, second President of the United States, spoke to the militia of Massachusetts about the fact that the republic they’d just established relied not on government structures but a people with Christian values able to exercise self-restraint. President Adams said: Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People Biblical morality was a cultural necessity acknowledged by all our founding fathers. For the pulpits of America not to educate the American church on issues of private and public morality and morality’s relationship to politics, industry, and entertainment is akin to the establishment of a formal partnership with those who are intent on overseeing the destruction of America and its historic position of godly leadership in the world. Civic engagement is the duty of the People of God. We are to devote our lives as faithful vice regents of the King to bring all areas of life on this earth under Christ’s dominion. The management of life on earth is the purpose for which mankind was created (Genesis 1:28), the reason for Abraham’s calling as father of the nations and the church (Genesis 12-50; Romans 4; Galatians 3), and the reason for Christ’s command that the church disciple the nations (Matthew 28). For the pulpit to neglect to teach the Christian his civic duties is to turn culture over to those who have no interest in establishing Christ’s Kingdom on earth. The majority of America’s pulpits have ceded the earth to the state. The People of God have surrendered divine territory to those with no interest in the divine. Our pulpits have surrendered the earth to the ungodly without giving the pews even the idea of a fight. Dr. R. J. Rushdoony, prolific author and pastor expressed it this way in his three-volume set, An Informed Faith: That we have an obligation to bring every area of life under Christi’s dominion and the duty to make God’s earth His Kingdom has been abandoned as the church has retreated into the position of a mystery religion or cult. How will Christ the King treat a church that hands His world over to His enemies? The American church has played a key role in handing this nation to anyone who wants it. This "anyone" includes the Muslims. The vibrancy of the church has ebbed and flowed over the past 6,000 years since Adam began his tenure. Adam was the first to endeavor to live up to the broad and expansive assignment to mankind to be God’s vice regents. From the beginning, man has one job: Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion. ~Genesis 1:28 Historically, the people of God have often been reticent to stand against the tides of cultural darkness. It took 600 years of Muslim onslaught, the desecration and destruction of churches, the torture of Christians, the rape of Christian women, the savage dismemberment of Christian children and other atrocities of “Muslim evangelism” to bring the church to an awareness that the invasion of the whole of North Africa, Spain, Sicily, and the profaned Holy Land was a more than adequate call to action. The crusades were executed only after the aggression of the Mohammedan disciples of Islam, those Dostoevsky called “A savage, repulsive Moslem horde, the sworn enemy of civilization.” To quote the prolific author, pioneering scholar, and educator, Rodney Stark: “As will be seen, the Crusades were precipitated by Islamic provocations: by centuries of bloody attempts to colonize the West and by sudden new attacks on Christian pilgrims and holy places. The Arab invasions were planned and led by those committed to the spread of Islam.” ~ Rodney Stark, God’s Battalion: The Case for the Crusades Were it not for the Crusades, the cultural advances of the West would be unknown! Today, most of America's pulpits remain silent as Oklahoma’s Dr. Everett Piper stands in for the church to articulate the truth lost on generations. DR. EVERETT PIPER Sunday, January 11, 2026 NO, THE BIBLE DOES NOT PROMOTE THE SAME VIOLENCE AS THE QURAN Last week, in this article, I wrote of Zohran Mamdani’s decision to be sworn into office with his right hand placed on the Quran. I then asked some questions any logical observer should ask: Does Mr. Mamdani believe what this book teaches? For example, does he believe in its explicit endorsements of child slavery, forced marriage, institutionalized misogyny, forced conversions, capital punishment for sexual immorality, and the beheading of non-believers? I WENT FURTHER Is Mr. Mamdani an advocate of violent jihad and the military conquest of the Christian world? After all, the copy of the Quran that he specifically chose as the basis for his oath to office was published during the Ottoman Empire, a time when Islam’s military expansion was at its peak. Why did Mayor Mamdani choose this specific edition of the Quran? What was the point? Was it to highlight and extoll Islamic imperialism? If not, why not? Most readers understood why these are reasonable questions. Most understood why we would be foolish not to ask them. After all, the Mayor’s chosen scriptures are replete with verse after verse that promote such things. It is also irrefutable that the present behavior of millions of Muslims around the world seems to confirm that they take these Quranic instructions and the corresponding history of Islam quite seriously. Some critics, however, responded to my column with some indignation. “But what about your Bible?” they asked. “It promotes slavery, misogyny, military conquest, and the execution of non-believers, as well. Most of this stuff is also allowed if not encouraged by your Christian God, so who are you to judge Muslims?” How should we respond? Well, frankly, this argument is very foolish. How many Christians do you know who believe in child marriage, capital punishment for adulterers, forced conversions, and the beheading of those who leave the faith? I’ll ask it again: How many Christians do you know who believe this? The Answer is zero. Why? Because Christians understand the difference between descriptive literature and prescriptive literature. Christians understand that the Bible is written in many genres and that God has revealed His truth through poetry, prose, prophecy, parables, and, as I said above, both descriptive and prescriptive literature. We know that over the centuries God has communicated with humanity in the context of our brokenness and sin, and we understand the obvious: Just because the Bible describes David’s adultery with Bathsheba and his subsequent murder of her husband Uriah doesn’t mean God is prescribing that we go do the same. The Church has understood this interpretive principle for 2,000 years and has applied Scripture accordingly. For example, no Christian believes the Old Testament’s “war verses” that describe the Canaanite conquest are prescriptive teachings for how we are to treat our neighbors and live the Christian life today. And no Christian believes God’s description of how he judged an evil people who were literally sacrificing their children in the burning furnaces of Moloch is intended to trump the Sermon on the Mount or the story of the Good Samaritan. So, no, child slavery, forced marriage, misogyny, legalized wife beating, beheadings, and forced conversion at the point of a sword are never promoted in the Bible. Is some of this stuff described? Yes. Is it prescribed for followers of Christ? No. Never. But the opposite is true for much of Islam (as much as 80 percent according to some Pew research). Why? The answer lies in the “doctrine of abrogation,” an Islamic principle that holds that the later verses in the Quran always abrogate (i.e., trump and supersede) the earlier ones. And guess what, the Quran’s violent verses are the later ones, which is the exact opposite of Christianity. Don’t let anyone tell you the Bible teaches the same thing as the Quran and that both books promote murder, slavery, rape, the subjugation of women, and “death to the infidel.” It is simply not true, and 2,000 years of Christian faith and practice, as compared to that of Islam, prove it. Has Western Civilization stumbled a time or two over the millennia? Yes. But it is Christian morality that has always been the correction and not the cause. And one final note on the matter of “imperialism and colonialism” – Isn’t it a bit ironic that any junior high reading of history shows that the most imperialistic and violent colonizer of the past 1000 years was Islam. As I have mentioned above, the Ottoman Empire serves as the quintessential proof thereof. In fact, it was only after 500 years of Islam’s violent expansion across much of Europe, Northern Africa, and the Mediterranean Middle East that Pope Urban II, at the behest of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos, finally launched the Crusades to stop the butchery. And thank God he did, or we would all be living in a country much more like Iran right now than the United States of America. Find more Everett Piper here: Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery). He can be reached at [email protected]. Copyright © 2025 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission. Don't forget to watch his podcast! Before you go about your day be sure to sign up for Dr. Piper's free podcast here. It takes only a moment of time. __________ Follow Dr. Piper on his podcast here. Follow Dr. Everett Piper weekly in The Washington Times here  SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. DECEMBER 3 MEETING: SAMANTHA FULNECKY INTERVIEW With OCPAC Foundation President Bob Linn and Senator Shane Jett Watch Samantha Fulnecky interview here. Note: Senator Shane Jett was pointed in his query and his followup remarks. Shane Jett's first question begins at: 9:38 mark. Shane's blistering salvo to the University begins at the 11:21 mark. Watch the full meeting here. LEGISLATIVE COMMENDATION GABE WOOLEY GABE WOOLEY here Full Meeting here WES LANE, PRESIDENT SALT & LIGHT LEADERSHIP TRAINING SALLT Wes Lane was the keynote speaker and once he finished, it was clear why he has had so much success challenging the church to step forward in boldness. Watch Wes Lane's presentation here. Watch the full meeting here. JEN NICOLE SOPRANO We anticipated the professionalism of Jen Nicole's voice, but her moving presentation of the Christmas season was breathtaking. 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