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:
24 June 2021
3.3 MINS
The South Australian Liberal Party received more media attention than it anticipated by rejecting the membership applications of 150 people on suspicion of their ties to certain churches, and indicating they would demand proof of party loyalty from 400 more. Long-term Liberal members expressed their [...]
24 June 2021
6 MINS
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (1894-1978) was the founder of the Liberal Party. He remains Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister and one of our nation’s most articulate statesmen. Menzies was a Presbyterian, and his Christian convictions shaped him and his social and political views profoundly. In and [...]
23 June 2021
5.4 MINS
Uncover the Christian origins of Australia's Liberal Party, from its founding by figures like Sir Robert Menzies to its enduring influence and values in today's political landscape.
23 June 2021
3.6 MINS
Part 6 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. In this series we have seen comprehensive evidence that Jesus is God — from the lips of Jesus himself; from the apostles; and from names [...]
17 June 2021
2.8 MINS
Written by Bruce Pascoe in 2014, Dark Emu claimed to recover a forgotten history of Indigenous Australia. Pascoe’s book asserted that before European colonisation, Aboriginal communities were not ‘hunter-gatherers’ but used complex farming practices, baked bread, built houses, lived in large settlements and invented democracy. [...]
17 June 2021
3 MINS
Part 5 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. So far in this series, we have examined several lines of evidence of Jesus’ divinity -- including his own testimony about himself; what the apostles [...]
15 June 2021
3.6 MINS
An excerpt from Kurt Mahlburg’s book Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? ~~~ Conventional wisdom today says that people are entitled to their religious beliefs, so long as they keep these views out of politics. Under this logic, the public square should be [...]
15 June 2021
2.2 MINS
In recent days, churches around the nation marked Religious Freedom Weekend with prayers for persecuted believers abroad and better protections for people of faith here in Australia. Meanwhile, the South Australian Liberal Party moved to either cancel or challenge hundreds of new party membership applications [...]
10 June 2021
1.2 MINS
The Canberra Declaration has launched a new petition calling on the Australian government and private companies to reject the use of vaccination certificates. Our petition is called Vaccine Passports: No Way, and it reads as follows: What makes Australia so wonderful is our long-held belief [...]
10 June 2021
4.7 MINS
Part 4 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. As we have previously covered, both Jesus himself and his apostles were fully convinced of Jesus’ divinity. In Part 4 of this series on Jesus [...]
9 June 2021
1.8 MINS
Editorial note: Now that Petition EN2626 is closed, we have updated this article to include a new petition. ~~~ Yes, there is a lot of misinformation circulating online about the COVID-19 vaccines. But the question of vaccination passports is another issue entirely. It’s possible to [...]
8 June 2021
5.1 MINS
The book Rules for Radicals, written in 1971, has had a lasting influence on political activism right up to our present day. It was penned by Saul Alinsky, the “father of community organising”, a year before he died of a heart attack in 1972. In [...]
7 June 2021
2.9 MINS
Last week, independent Adelaide news site InDaily ran a scare story entitled The Divine Right: Pentecostal recruitment drive divides SA Libs. Its apparent aim was to spook secular Australians about the increasing involvement of Christians in electoral politics. “Senior Liberals are actively recruiting Pentecostals,” the [...]
3 June 2021
1.8 MINS
An adorable one-minute video has been making the rounds online over recent days. In it, a father and his preschool-aged daughter talk about racism and why it’s so important that we judge each other by character, not skin colour. “Daddy teaches you you can be [...]
2 June 2021
4.6 MINS
Part 3 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. As we saw in Part 2, Jesus was fully convinced that He was God, and He wanted people to see Him as part of a [...]
1 June 2021
9.8 MINS
The issue of election fraud faced intense scrutiny following the 2020 United States’ presidential election. Though Donald Trump was unsuccessful in proving his now infamous allegations, some polls indicate that half of American voters remain suspicious that voter fraud helped Joe Biden to victory. And [...]
31 May 2021
10.6 MINS
A summary and review of Carl R. Trueman’s The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism and the Road to Sexual Revolution. It is bewildering just how quickly sexual morals have shifted, especially in recent years. Only yesterday it seems we [...]
31 May 2021
5.3 MINS
Since the 1960s, Hinduism has profoundly shaped the West. But it goes beyond vegan food, henna and hippy culture. We’re all one with God; there’s a divine spark within each of us; I’ll find my own path -- all of these Hindu ideas have gone [...]
27 May 2021
6.5 MINS
Part 2 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. As we saw in Part 1, knowing and believing Jesus’ true identity is essential for saving faith -- it is a matter of eternal life [...]
25 May 2021
2.2 MINS
Beginning in early 2020, the corporate media was at pains to label as a ‘conspiracy theory’ the possibility that COVID-19 was leaked from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. Media outlets assured us that the virus had arisen naturally in a population of bats before being [...]





