Isaiah 59:14-15

Every morning I wake up in a lot of pain and navigate a couple of feet to my desk, where I take my medications and sit on a heating pad until I think I’m safe to venture more than a couple of feet.

This is when I read my email.

I hadn’t gotten far through the political ads and bill notifications when there was a piece of mail noting an old article Charles Bowden had written.

I followed the link and re-read the piece he had written for Esquire in 2013...it was, as usual, a masterpiece of investigative work and should have been received as a truth bomb blowing away all the layers of deceit it chronicled.

It landed with a thud, as most truth does these days.

The article was also a defense of another reporter who had done all the heavy lifting on the subject and whose life was ruined for having done so.

Chuck wrote the piece before that reporter committed suicide…his name was Gary Webb and he’s one of my patron saints.

Bowden wrote one last story in Gary’s honor...proving that what he gave his life for was truth.

It was Bowden’s last story, period…he died soon after broke, and in ill health…telling the truth in this culture will kill you quicker than cancer.

I tell you all of this because the next email was about a story that Rebecca Hopkins has written about a scandal involving NAR star Chris Reed.

It was the second story she has written on the subject, the first was an excellent piece detailing the allegations against Reed.

The second piece ends with Reed breathing threats of legal action against Hopkins.

I stopped and prayed for Rebecca…and then the rage came.

The fact that Reed had issues was not a secret in the circles he ran in…

Whenever you see an article about some “Christian” leader in trouble, you need to understand that (at the very least,) his immediate peer group was aware of problems long before you see it publicized.

Usually that knowledge extends far beyond the immediate peer group.

People know, but the code of conduct in the group demands silence.

It also demands that anyone who gets ahold of the story be silenced.

It demands lies…spoken and unspoken.

Rebecca Hopkins does excellent work…she’s careful and professional and her heart is for Jesus and His church.

She’s also turning over a bunch of the moneychangers tables.

I just hope she is not laboring under the delusion that anyone will appreciate her heart for the truth…especially in the church.

Make you own application…