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:
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 [...]
21 May 2021
4.7 MINS
I grew up on a farm in the Adelaide Hills, running through corn patches and building cubby houses with my sisters on the banks of our creek. I have great memories of my childhood. I was blessed to grow up in a Christian family, and [...]
21 May 2021
2.4 MINS
Part 1 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. From the early church on, Christians have believed that God is one, but that he is three persons: Father, Son and Spirit — also known [...]
17 May 2021
4.6 MINS
Let’s be honest, it’s the world’s most fashionable religion. Buddhism has an exciting mystique about it, especially for us spiritually starved Westerners. Mindfulness has gone mainstream, along with Zen gardens and the Dalai Lama. Buddhist themes light up our cinemas, from The Matrix to Kung [...]
13 May 2021
17.1 MINS
And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it. — Zechariah 12:3 After [...]
13 May 2021
4.3 MINS
I first became aware of Christopher Rufo last year as I followed the American debates surrounding Critical Race Theory (CRT). Rufo is making an enormously positive contribution in this area, investigating the creep of ‘wokeness’ in education, and taking the battle against CRT to the [...]
11 May 2021
3 MINS
Dr Bernard Randall, an ordained Church of England minister, has lost his job as chaplain at Trent College, Nottingham, and has been reported to the government’s counter-terrorism watchdog as a ‘potentially violent religious extremist’ for a sermon he gave telling students they can make up [...]
11 May 2021
2.2 MINS
‘Wokeness’ is a term being bandied about a lot today, but what does it actually mean? With repeated use, and without defining the term, we risk turning it into an empty insult. In fact, ‘wokeness’ has a precise meaning among academics who have been studying [...]
10 May 2021
3.7 MINS
Pastor Artur Pawlowski from Calgary, Canada, has been arrested by a SWAT team on a busy highway for failing to close his church under Alberta’s strict Covid-19 health order. Enduring rough treatment during his arrest, Pastor Artur is now in jail, where he has been [...]
7 May 2021
3.1 MINS
“You are more than the things that others try to identify you by in this age of identity politics. You are more than your gender, your race, your ethnicity, your religion, your language group, your age.” These were the words of Australian PM Scott Morrison [...]
7 May 2021
4 MINS
Intention The gospel we share is the best news in the world because it is all about what God has already done for us and not about what we can or can’t do for him. Scripture “No one can ever be made right with God [...]
6 May 2021
3.4 MINS
This week, the non-profit Centre for Medical Progress (CMP) released a video report exposing the trafficking of aborted babies by the University of Pittsburg and Planned Parenthood, and their use of fetal tissue in barbaric lab experiments. One of the most astonishing revelations in the [...]
21 April 2021
3.8 MINS
After weeks of witness testimony and ten hours of jury deliberations, Derek Chauvin has been convicted on all charges of unintentional homicide in the death of George Floyd.
21 April 2021
4.3 MINS
The following is an excerpt of Kurt's new book Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? There is an incurable habit of the human heart to ‘otherise’ evil -- to identify all of the injustices of the world with some other person or group [...]
14 April 2021
3.6 MINS
An undercover recording was released overnight by Project Veritas, showing CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester admitting that during 2020, the network’s “focus was to get Trump out of office”.
12 April 2021
2.2 MINS
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, has highlighted what we already knew about Marxism: despite its best intentions, it always has and always will benefit society’s elites at the expense of the poor.
3 April 2021
2.6 MINS
If you’re yet to watch Andrew Bolt’s Thursday episode of the Bolt Report, please make sure that you do. One of Australia’s more controversial TV personalities, Andrew Bolt is a dogged conservative, and is known to stand up for Christians when he sees them unfairly [...]
2 April 2021
2.3 MINS
Woke mobs aren’t new. There was one out and about on Good Friday, if you recall. Following a Passover custom, Pilate offered to release Jesus, if the crowds so wished. But the leading priests stirred up the people, until in unison they shouted, “Crucify him!” [...]
1 April 2021
2.2 MINS
Reverend William Kosko is a voice in the desert, in more than one sense. Parish priest at Saint Henry in Buckeye, Arizona, he recently delivered a heart-rending homily on the sanctity of human life that has since gone viral. Rev. Kosko begins his homily with [...]
30 March 2021
7.5 MINS
In the distance, the townsfolk could see a runner tracing a hilltop ridge and then dipping into the valley on the near side. His silhouette grew larger and more defined as he made his way up a winding path towards them in the village. Those [...]





