Kurt Mahlburg
Kurt Mahlburg is a husband to Angie, a father, a freelance writer, and a familiar Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He is the Senior Editor and a regular columnist at The Daily Declaration. More of his writings can be found at Mercator, Intellectual Takeout, The Spectator Australia, The American Spectator and Caldron Pool.
A published author, Kurt’s breakout title Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? explores the social and spiritual challenges facing Western nations and the hope Jesus offers in our crisis. Along with Warwick Marsh, Kurt has co-authored several other books, including Great Southland Revival, Power of Prayer, and Jesus: The Centre of It All.
Kurt is passionate about speaking the truths of Jesus into the public square in a way that makes sense to a secular culture and that gives Christians courage to do the same. He has previously studied architecture, worked as a primary school teacher, and served as a missionary and a young adults pastor. Among Kurt’s other interests are philosophy, history, surf, the outdoors, and travel. He hosts his own blog at Cross and Culture.
Articles by Kurt Mahlburg:
1 June 2023
3.4 MINS
In mid-2021, British social media influencer Oli London came out as non-binary and Korean, as reported at the time by MercatorNet. London took his double transition extremely seriously, with 18 facial surgeries to prove it. The surgeries began as an experiment in feminisation, though in time London [...]
30 May 2023
4.1 MINS
Wokeness is not just any brand of Marxism — it is Maosim with American characteristics. In two recent articles, I profiled a powerful speech by academic and woke critic James Lindsay. The first emphasised Lindsay’s point that wokeness is simply Marxism adapted to a Western [...]
29 May 2023
2.9 MINS
Marxism decimated Russia and China but failed to take hold in the West... until some German academics created a new strategy in the 1920s. In a recent post, I highlighted James Lindsay’s simple yet profound observation that wokeness is Marxism adapted to a Western context. [...]
26 May 2023
2.9 MINS
The Global Alliance for Responsible Media is attacking the problem of ‘harmful content’. Sales of Bud Light beer tanked by 21.4 percent in the fallout of the Dylan Mulvaney saga. Apparently frat boys don’t particularly relate to a creepy man prancing about in pink teenage girl [...]
25 May 2023
3.2 MINS
For nearly three years, journalists in the world media have behaved like activists. In early 2020, a New York Times headline scoffed, “Senator Tom Cotton Repeats Fringe Theory of Coronavirus Origins”. In early March, the newspaper of record is sounding a different tune: “Lab Leak Most Likely [...]
22 May 2023
4.6 MINS
Wokeness is Marxism applied in a Western context. It is the fulfilment of Karl Marx's dream to create a new religion for mankind.
22 May 2023
3.5 MINS
Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To align ourselves with God’s love for the people in the world, while shunning the things of this world. Scripture “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the [...]
16 May 2023
2.6 MINS
Where are the limits to self-definition? Seven years ago, a short video went viral that has stood the test of time like few others. It featured Joseph Backholm of the Family Policy Institute of Washington interviewing students at the University of Washington about gender bathroom [...]
4 May 2023
2.1 MINS
A step forward for free speech. Twitter moved one step closer towards its mandate as a platform for free expression this month, after the little blue bird removed prohibitions on “misgendering or deadnaming” from its hateful conduct policy. The change was not announced but made quietly, [...]
1 May 2023
3.2 MINS
The film 'Jesus Revolution' has been wildly popular. Read these true accounts of how the Jesus Movement impacted Australia during that heady era. The following is an excerpt from Kurt Mahlburg and Warwick Marsh’s latest book, Great Southland Revival: Tracing the Spirit’s Flame from Acts [...]
27 April 2023
2.3 MINS
Disney’s obsession with woke sexuality has cost it a quarter of a billion dollars at the box office. Does Disney really believe that families enjoy LGBTQ+-affirmative lecturing in films? Growing up, there was nothing more magical to me than the opening credits of a Disney [...]
25 April 2023
2.4 MINS
A wife and mother shares her testimony and reminds the Western church of the immense value of Cultural Christianity. In recent years the Western world has witnessed a fast fade of what we might call ‘Cultural Christianity’. Less people are attending church, the Christian moral [...]
24 April 2023
2.8 MINS
Are we supposed to junk great works of art because they offend contemporary sensibilities? Paintings depicting biblical stories and Roman myths which are currently displayed in the Town Hall of Oxford, the historic city outside of London, may be sold off to fund the purchase [...]
21 April 2023
3.6 MINS
The once-lauded COVID-19 injectables continue to raise red flags, with Pfizer facing legal action, new data highlighting high rates of adverse events, and health regulators shelving the products they once promoted.
4 April 2023
3.2 MINS
President Joe Biden chose an awkward week to promote one of his favourite causes. President Joe Biden has issued an official proclamation establishing March 31 as a holiday to be known as “Transgender Day of Visibility”. His declaration comes at the end of a conspicuously visible [...]
31 March 2023
3.1 MINS
UNSW Professor Gigi Foster began warning against lockdowns in 2021. Her recent analysis of Australia's approach to COVID-19 yielded far worse results than she had imagined. While Australian governments are yet to provide the public with a cost-benefit analysis of their COVID-era lockdown policies, one [...]
30 March 2023
4.6 MINS
Christians were targeted in the latest mass shooting in America, first by the killer and then by a malevolently dishonest media. The city of Nashville is in mourning after the mass shooting of six locals, three of them children, at The Covenant School in Tennessee [...]
30 March 2023
3.3 MINS
It’s hard to be satirical when reality is even funnier than the joke. They say that truth is stranger than fiction. But according to Seth Dillon, CEO of America’s largest satire site The Babylon Bee, it is increasingly difficult to see any daylight between the two. [...]
28 March 2023
3.4 MINS
Australia’s Christian schools are under threat from “woke bigotry”, warns Senator Ralph Babet, who spoke up in their defence this week. In a passionate two-minute speech yesterday, UAP Senator for Victoria Ralph Babet offered a strong defence of Christian schools on the floor of the [...]
25 March 2023
2.6 MINS
The only Aboriginal Voice Labor apparently wants to hear is one that votes ‘yes’ to an Australia divided by race. The Australian Labor Party has seemingly decided the Voice is a foregone conclusion. As reported by Sky News, a delegation of 22 Aboriginal leaders and [...]





