Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg is married with three sons, and ministers as an apologist and ethicist in Melbourne, Australia. He was one of the main drafters of the Canberra Declaration. Bill has a BA with honours in philosophy (Wheaton College, Chicago), an MA with highest honours in theology (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Boston) and is currently completing a PhD in theology.
Bill is a prolific author and a much sought-after media commentator. He has been featured on most Australian television and radio current affairs programs. Bill teaches ethics, apologetics and theology at several Melbourne Bible Colleges. He hosts his own blog CultureWatch, which features Christian commentary on the issues of the day.
Articles by Bill Muehlenberg:
8 September 2023
6.1 MINS
I for one am utterly amazed that I have such open and unlimited access to God. Not only can I pray with confidence and boldness, I can go directly to God for everything.
6 September 2023
6.6 MINS
The Apostle Paul prays for the believers in Ephesus that they may really know about the love of God. Is there anything grander than God and His love?
31 August 2023
7.2 MINS
The film is based on a true story, featuring the life of Tim Ballard, who founded Operation Underground Railroad to liaise with local police in other countries to catch child sex traffickers.
30 August 2023
5.9 MINS
We do have a divine commission to speak truth and not worry about how others will take it. Telling people the truth is the most loving thing we can do, so we had better do it.
29 August 2023
6.1 MINS
Some of the squeamish believers of today who say we should never call out pagans, or pagan rulers, or pagan nations, because they are not Christian, are greatly mistaken.
25 August 2023
5.8 MINS
What spiritual and political lessons can we learn from Israel in exile?
17 August 2023
6.1 MINS
The importance of setting up a home library. I like big libraries, and I cannot lie. That should come as no surprise to those who are familiar with me and this website. I like books, and I like reading. I have plenty of books, and [...]
14 August 2023
7 MINS
The Christian life is a disciplined life. There is no getting around it: the Christian life is meant to be a disciplined life. Like a good soldier, the believer disciplines himself to please his master and serve him effectively (see 2 Timothy 2:3-5 for example). [...]
14 August 2023
7.4 MINS
What to read on transgenderism. Many of us in the culture war trenches from long ago warned where we were heading with the radical sexual revolution. We tried to sound the alarm about the war on marriage and family, and how things like granting special [...]
10 August 2023
5.8 MINS
We do NOT want a post-human future. It is often the case that writers of science fiction and various filmmakers can sometimes be much more savvy, aware and perceptive about the dangers that we face than our politicians, leaders and elites. Indeed, often it is [...]
8 August 2023
6.6 MINS
‘There’s some good in this world, and it is worth fighting for.’ While much of the West is caving in and going down the tubes in terms of the three big ticket items that I mention in my title, not everyone is so easily capitulating [...]
7 August 2023
2.6 MINS
Australia has one of the highest youth suicide rates among the world’s developed nations, with 27.3 out of 100,000 Australian males aged 15 to 24 expected to kill themselves. In 1996, 2367 Australians killed themselves, and perhaps a quarter of million attempted suicide. Suicide is [...]
4 August 2023
4 MINS
A taxpayer-funded booklet put out by the Victorian Government for young people attracted widespread criticism. The 62-page booklet, entitled Am I Old Enough?, was meant to be a guidebook on the law for Victorian young people. Over 225,000 copies of the booklet were sent to [...]
27 July 2023
3.1 MINS
The forces of Political Correctness (PC) are ever at work, ensuring that all of us – young and old – keep on the straight and narrow of right thinking and right practice. An interesting illustration of this took place in 2002 when it was announced [...]
25 July 2023
3.9 MINS
Fatherlessness is a growing problem in the Western world. Whether caused by divorce and broken families, or by deliberate single parenting, more and more children grow up in Australia without fathers. Concerned groups have argued that a mother and father are crucial in the raising [...]
24 July 2023
12.5 MINS
An extremely revealing and disturbing television documentary was aired on America’s Public Broadcasting System in February 2001. Entitled The Merchants of Cool, the show examined the way big business and the advertising industry have targeted our young people. More specifically, it explores the way youth [...]
21 July 2023
8.5 MINS
Editor’s Note: Please find this heartfelt story below by Bill Muehlenberg about his wife’s funeral. The team at the Canberra Declaration were represented at Averil Muehlenberg's funeral on 17 July 2023 in Melbourne by Warwick Marsh. Bill Muehlenberg, pictured here with Dr Graham McLennan, Warwick [...]
20 July 2023
5.1 MINS
Wise advice for social media users. If anyone wanted to write a book on internet etiquette, and how to proceed sensibly and wisely on social media, they should look no further than to the Bible in general, and the book of Proverbs in particular. There [...]





