Monday, at a speech in Ohio, President Trump labeled congressional representatives who did not clap for his State of the Union address as un-American and even agreed to call their actions treason. The US Legal Code Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 115 › § 2381 stipulates that anyone found guilty of treason shall: -... Continue Reading →
Audio: Before Being Sent (Sermon)
Sermon Title: Before Being sent Date: Sunday, January 14, 2018 Location: Peace Fellowship Church On Sunday January 14, I had the privilege of preaching at Peace Fellowship Church in Washington DC. My passage was Luke 15:11-24, the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this sermon I present insight into this parable from the perspective of... Continue Reading →
January Blog Posts
Chief Wahoo: A Mascot for the Lie of White Supremacy On Monday, the Cleveland Indians released a statement that they will remove the logo of Chief Wahoo from their on-field uniforms beginning with the 2019 season. Many people on social media congratulated Major League Baseball for its commitment to inclusivity and diversity and thanked the... Continue Reading →
Public Lecture: A Native Perspective on Columbus Day
On Columbus Day 2017, instead of protesting the Columbus Day ceremony that is held in Washington DC every year, I gave a public lecture to provide a counter narrative to the inaccurate history taught that "Columbus discovered America." In this lecture I lay out the Doctrine of Discovery and conclude with a call for the... Continue Reading →
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A Native Perspective on the National Immigration Debate
#DACA, Jobs, #DREAMERS and Borders: Friday, September 1st is the day we are supposed to learn the fate of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). President Trump campaigned on the promise that he would end DACA, and September 1 is the deadline handpicked by several Republican state attorneys general threatening legal and legislative action against... Continue Reading →
The Most Egregious Thing President Trump Said Last Week
Even in terms of the Trump Presidency, last week was a doozy. Even coming off the week prior, when President Trump threatened, on Twitter nonetheless, the citizens of North Korea with nuclear annihilation, last week was a doozy. Even for a President who campaigned to the alt-right, hired a few of them as his advisers, and... Continue Reading →
A Call for President Trump to Resign – 2 Part Series
Hello my relatives. If you are following my posts on social media this week you probably noticed that I have been paying close attention to the deepening crisis with North Korea, and especially the inflammatory rhetoric coming from President Trump. So much so, that on Wednesday August 9, I posted "After months of lament, I... Continue Reading →
Video: UYWI Natl. Conf. 2017 – Power and Authority
What is the difference between power and authority? Mark Charles speaks how Jesus operated out of his authority and not his power at UYWI National Conference 2017. Find out what this means for God's church. Watch now!
The Unfortunate and Extremely High Cost of Bi-Partisanship in American Politics
This past week Senator John McCain returned to DC, after receiving cancer treatment in AZ, to give an impassioned appeal for bi-partisan cooperation in the US Senate. His speech was a direct rebuke of the extreme partisanship demonstrated by both Democrats and Republicans regarding health care and many other important legislative issues. The speech was... Continue Reading →
Saint Augustine Goes Off the Rails
https://wirelesshogan.blogspot.com/2017/07/where-augustine-goes-off-rails.html For those who have been following my work on the Doctrine of Discovery, you know that I have been offering a critique of Saint Augustine's Just War Theory for some time now. But I had yet to find the smoking gun. The quote detailing his line of thinking where, when Augustine voiced it, Jesus... Continue Reading →
The Fleeting Beauty of Fireworks
Fireworks are cool, but they never seem to last very long. Most public shows are between 20 and 30 minutes. And the grand finale, when the majority of the fireworks are launched to light up the sky in a blaze of glory that can be seen for miles, usually lasts only a minute or two.... Continue Reading →
You Don’t Want to Live in a Christian Nation
As many of you know, the Fourth of July, Independence Day, is a conflicted holiday for myself and many other Native Americans. We cannot celebrate a document that refers to us and our community as "merciless Indian Savages." Over the past several years, I have written numerous articles regarding this. On Sunday July 2, the... Continue Reading →
A Native Perspective on Memorial Day
There are four US holidays that, as a native, I find difficult to fully celebrate. The first is Columbus Day. For obvious reasons. The second is Thanksgiving. Do we really need a holiday celebrating a mythical multi-ethnic potluck? The third is the Fourth of July. Because the Declaration of Independence refers to natives as "merciless... Continue Reading →
What if we struck racism and sexism from the Constitution of the United States, actually abolished slavery, and added 2 simple words articulating a value for life?
Because I want our children to live in a country where We the People actually means All the People. Mark Charles (Navajo)