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:
16 January 2023
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Pfizer is being taken to court by journalist Alex Berenson for its latest legal and ethical violations.
12 January 2023
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Activists are defacing famous works of art to protest inaction on climate change. Atheist ethicist Peter Singer approves of this manoeuvre. Controversial Australian ethicist Peter Singer this month came out in defence of woke climate art vandals who targeted some two dozen world-famous artworks in [...]
30 December 2022
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The Twitter Files continue to expose the platform's egregious censorship of the truth — most recently about Covid.
30 December 2022
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Adding to what Orwell wrote in 1984: war is peace; freedom is slavery; Ignorance is strength -- 'man is woman'. The authoritative dictionaries of the English-speaking world are scrambling over each other to stay woke. In 2020, Merriam-Webster infamously updated its entry for female to [...]
28 December 2022
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A post has been making the rounds on social media this week which juxtaposes two striking photos. The first is from 1956, when a trio of Manhattan skyscrapers had their windows lit up to form three giant crosses over New York City in celebration of [...]
22 December 2022
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In the latest shocking Twitter Files revelation, strong evidence has emerged that the FBI used Twitter to interfere in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election and install the Bureau’s favoured candidate, Joe Biden.
21 December 2022
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Dr Kerryn Phelps AM, the former President of the Australian Medical Association, this week revealed that she has suffered a ‘devastating’ Covid-19 vaccine injury. She made her bombshell admission in a written submission to the Australian Parliament, in which she also decried Australian health regulators [...]
21 December 2022
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Is Christmas itself -- along with its rich, familiar traditions -- an emergence from pagan Roman festivals? These are serious claims that must be addressed.
13 December 2022
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Sam Brinton, a ‘non-binary’ nuclear official in Biden’s Department of Energy, has been charged with felony theft after allegedly stealing women’s luggage at two airports. With much fanfare over his LGBT identity, Brinton was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and [...]
12 December 2022
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The following is an excerpt from Kurt and Warwick’s latest book, Great Southland Revival. Throughout the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), Christianity remained a dominant force in Europe. This political status quo enabled the gospel to spread freely within and beyond the continent’s realms, and allowed generations of [...]
8 December 2022
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The following is an excerpt from Kurt and Warwick’s latest book, Great Southland Revival. In the centuries after Jesus, the church continued to spread like wildfire from the Middle East into continental Europe and North Africa. Two of the strongest growth centres were the great city of [...]
7 December 2022
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The following is an excerpt from Kurt and Warwick’s latest book, Great Southland Revival. Jesus’ ministry was marked by incredible scenes of revival. According to R. E. Davies, “While most writers ignore the fact, it may also be said that the ministry of Jesus Himself [...]
6 December 2022
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The following is an excerpt from Kurt and Warwick’s latest book, Great Southland Revival. As individuals and as the church collectively, we need revival. We need a visitation from God because even our best efforts at keeping the faith can easily become drab, dull and dead. [...]
2 December 2022
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Australia's revival history has long been neglected. Not any longer. Warwick and I are passionate about revival in Australia. And we are convinced that Australia’s revival history—which has mostly been forgotten—is so exciting that it might just spark the next revival blaze if enough people [...]
30 November 2022
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Discover the role that Wilberforce played in Christianising the young colony of Australia in Great Southland Revival. William Wilberforce (1759–1833) is best known as the British parliamentarian who spent his life in the fight to abolish of slavery. But few Christians know of the influential [...]
29 November 2022
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Watch the Prayer Launch for Great Southland Revival and get up to 40% off pre-orders for the book. After much anticipation throughout 2022, Great Southland Revival is finally available for pre-order. The Canberra Declaration has already received pre-orders for around 600 copies of our latest [...]
22 November 2022
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Great Southland Revival, our latest book telling the story of Australia’s many revivals, has been sent to the printers this week! You are invited to join us for the online Prayer Launch this Wednesday, 23rd November, at 8 pm (AEDT), using this Zoom link. As [...]
11 November 2022
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Kurt and Warwick’s new book on Australian revivals is due for release later this month. Australia is a nation forged in the furnace of revival. After taking a year to research Australia’s spiritual awakenings, this is the inescapable conclusion we have come to. Warwick and [...]
21 October 2022
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Intention That God would send revival to Australia, not to make us feel good but to transform our nation for righteousness. Scripture “When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound [...]
17 October 2022
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Last week, the Daily Declaration reported on a Pfizer executive’s admission that her company never tested whether its mRNA product could stop transmission of Covid-19 before putting it to market. The bombshell admission contradicted earlier assurances that if a person took Pfizer’s mNRA injections, they [...]
