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By and large, our secular Western culture doesn’t like to hear about a God who brings judgement and condemnation. Jesus’s teaching on loving your enemies goes down well, but the Bible’s teaching on Hell is harder to swallow.

There’s much to worry about in this uncertain world — the world really is on fire. But as I think and blog about these issues, I try to process them in a way that draws me closer to God and His goodness rather than toward despair and fear.

Mr President, you came promising to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war. A war that has decimated Ukrainian cities. A war that has left a trail of widows and orphans.  A war that has brought destruction into European soil we haven’t seen since World War 2.

Do you wonder how Christians should approach and use AI? If so, Tasmanian teacher, tech CEO, and AI consultant Paul Matthews has written one of the most accessible and practical AI books I’ve seen: "A Time to Lead: A Faithful Approach to AI in Christian Education".

If we stick to the Bible’s view — summarised in this tweet about politics, Christianity and Trump — we’ll avoid the twin pitfalls of triumphalism and despair. We’ll avoid losing our heads in the cut and thrust of worldly politics.

After Trump won, I expected Democrats to be sad and MAGA people to be happy — but non-MAGA people feeling relieved?

According to journalist Chris Uhlmann in his new one-hour-long documentary "The Real Cost of Net Zero: The shocking truth of the renewable energy push", renewable energy sounds good in theory, but the reality is vastly different.

Welcome to the Trump 2.0 'Apocalypse'. I mean ‘apocalypse’ in the biblical sense: as an ‘unveiling’, a look behind the curtain as to what’s really going on. And in this case, what a Trump 2.0 victory tells us about America.

ARC is taking the best of Western history – the worth and dignity of each person, responsibility rather than victimhood, religious freedom rather than thought control, and promoting that story as the better one for our future.

Pastor Mike Russell argues that it is possible to square the Biblical account of Genesis 1-11 with the mainstream findings of modern science (in particular, radiocarbon dating and evolution). They don’t necessarily need to cancel each other out.  

It’s been one year since over 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians were murdered, and over 230 hostages were taken captive into Gaza on October 7, 2023. Hamas’ actions kicked off an Israeli campaign to dismantle and destroy Hamas, leading to the deaths of thousands of Gazans.

How does the Bible help Christians disagree well with each other and with non-Christians? There’s much that could be (and should be) said. But for the sake of brevity, here are 9 points that have helped me enormously.

In my last post, we looked at why disagreeing well is a dying art and its implications. In this week's post, we'll explore the first step to doing disagreements well.

While polarisation here in Australia isn't as bad as in the US, we’re not immune from it. Both non-Christians and Christians are increasingly quick to judge and slow to listen. And from what I’ve seen and experienced, we struggle to disagree agreeably. It’s a dying art.

While I share many people’s concerns about Trump’s character, Christians need to be careful how we think about this assassination attempt. Some may also be disappointed that the bullet merely wounded but didn’t kill him. But such thinking is unbiblical.

Our hope is not in the person in the White House or the Lodge, but in the King of Kings. This hope allows us to live non-anxiously with the messiness and brokenness of this world and its politics, knowing that our home and our security are not in a temporal country.

While I sympathise with Costello’s lament about the often-strong support many US Christians provide Trump, I am concerned by his argument. It’s one thing to say you disagree with Christians supporting Trump. It’s another to say Christians "condemn themselves" by supporting Trump.

Few things keep me awake at night like Artificial Intelligence. No, I’m not worried about Terminator-like robots taking over our world (at least not yet). But I am worried about the disruption AI will bring to every area of our lives – and very, very soon.

Over time, I learned some "game-changing" truths that changed how I responded to feelings of anxiety. Truths — grounded in the Bible and the best of modern psychology — that serve me well to this day.

The cry of the protesters is that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. But if that’s the case, Israel is doing a poor job at genocide. Even under Israeli occupation, the number of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza has increased by around 500%: is that a genocidal policy?