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We mourn with those who have lost loved ones and property in the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires. And yet, through the smoke, we can see the hand of God in many miraculous events that have taken place.

The president of UQ’s conservative Liberal National Club, who protested a children’s drag queen event at a Brisbane library on Sunday, has been found dead. Wilson Gavin, 21, was found by Queensland police and ambulance services at Chelmer Railway Station just after 7am the day [...]

After months of record-breaking drought, our beautiful country of Australia is now facing a terrible season of bushfires. Since October, five million hectares of land have been burnt—an area as big as Croatia. Over 1300 homes have been destroyed, and sadly, 17 people have lost [...]

First it was Brexit in 2016. A few months later it was Trump. In May this year, Australia was stunned to see Scott Morrison soar to victory. And most recently, in a landslide result that stole the world’s attention, Boris Johnson turned Britain blue. Posting [...]

I love Christmas carols. They are the soundtrack of the season. As great as carols are, it’s possible to make it through the whole month of December, hear these tunes, and yet not tune in to what the carols are really saying. On closer inspection, [...]

For a whole range of reasons, I’m now convinced that President Trump will win a second term. Here are 20 reasons I’m almost certain he’ll be reelected in 2020.

Wherever you look, socialism is sexy again. In the UK this week, Jeremy Corbyn is seeking election as the nation’s Prime Minister on a proudly socialist platform. In the US, socialist Bernie Sanders is making a second run for President, and he has the endorsement [...]

Welcome to Part 2 of Six Myths Christians Should Stop Believing. Some things Christians believe are quite strange. Like the Queen said to Alice of Wonderland fame, even I sometimes catch myself believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast. As believers inhabiting an [...]

Eight months after Rugby Australia sacked star fullback Israel Folau for expressing his faith on Instagram, the two parties have settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. Many Australians—and people the world over—have watched this story with interest, because of its implications for religious [...]

Some things Christians believe are quite strange. Like the Queen said to Alice of Wonderland fame, even I sometimes catch myself believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast. As believers inhabiting an unbelieving culture, we need to check ourselves and make sure we’re [...]

Occasionally we hear of a celebrity who comes to faith in Jesus. Rarely is that celebrity as big as Kanye West. Kanye West is an American rapper and musical artist who has sold 140 million records globally and won 21 Grammy Awards, making him one [...]

In an effort to normalise pornography, there are people who point out that it’s been around since ancient times. That might be true, but porn today is like nothing the world has ever seen. Pornography is now everywhere. It’s available on almost every screen and [...]

It’s an interesting time to be living in America. I’ve just spent the week before last in Washington, DC, where I had the opportunity to attend the Values Voter Summit—one of the biggest annual gatherings of Christians standing for freedom, faith, family and life. The [...]

Kurt Mahlburg, Features Editor for the Canberra Declaration, is at large and on the loose in the USA. If you find our six-week election campaigns tiresome in Australia, consider what’s happening here in the USA. It’s still a year out from the 2020 vote but [...]

At the dawn of the Sexual Revolution in the 1960s and 70s, many were sounding the alarm about the impact pornography would have if it became widely available. Through the 80s and 90s, Christians especially were objects of ridicule for their social and political stance [...]

If you own a screen, chances are you’ve heard about last week’s climate strikes in a city near you. Chances are, you were also recently introduced to a 16-year-old called Greta Thunberg. So what’s all the hype about? The protests have been organised by Extinction [...]

Intention Responding to God in times of desperation. Scripture “Dispatches were sent by swift messengers into all the provinces of the empire, giving the order that all Jews—young and old, including women and children—must be killed, slaughtered, and annihilated on a single day.” —Esther 3:13a [...]

Labor senator and the father of Aboriginal reconciliation, Pat Dodson, has voiced his serious concerns about the voluntary assisted dying bill likely to pass WA’s parliament. In a passionate plea, the First Nations leader put pen to paper, declaring “Aboriginal people do not need a [...]

Christians have found an unlikely ally in agnostic NSW parliamentarian Mark Latham. Many Australians will remember Mark Latham as the bullish Labor opposition leader seeking to topple John Howard at the 2004 federal election. More than once, Latham has been described by the media as [...]

The big news coming out of America last week isn’t the impeachment proceedings against President Trump. It’s the remarkable speech he gave at the UN General Assembly, which garnered almost no interest from the media either side of the Pacific.