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Right Rev Mark Powell

Mark is the pastor at Cornerstone Presbyterian Church, Hobart. Previously, he was associate pastor at Cornerstone Presbyterian Church, a multi-site church in Strathfield, NSW. He and his wife have six children.

Mark is a passionate advocate for faith, family, freedom and life. He is a gifted communicator and has made various appearances on radio and TV. Mark is unafraid to graciously speak the truth about contentious issues. He contributes to numerous online publications including The Spectator Australia, where his articles often appear in the most popular list.

Articles by Right Rev Mark Powell:

  • 29 July 2019

    0.7 MINS

    The Bill currently being presented by Alex Greenwich this week in the NSW Parliament not only seeks to decriminalise abortion but extend it to include late-term abortions as well. Below is an extract of the pertinent section: Note that all that is required is the [...]

  • 28 July 2019

    1.6 MINS

    What’s on the agenda for ‘social progressives’ after the redefinition of marriage? The decriminalisation of abortion. At least, that's what Alex Greenwich MP—former Co-chair of Australian Marriage Equality—is now focused on. And quickly. With Parliament resuming this week, Greenwich is tabling a bill to decriminalize [...]

  • 24 July 2019

    2.9 MINS

    Phillip Adams recently wrote a poignant piece in The Weekend Australian which provides a window into some of the intensely personal reasons as to why he is an atheist. And while his intention is to present himself as being morally magnanimous, his autobiographical admission is [...]

  • 13 July 2019

    3.3 MINS

    The 2019 Synod of the Uniting Church of Victoria and Tasmania has recently voted to allow the practice of euthanasia in all of its healthcare facilities. As their website records: Just over forty-years ago my own denomination decided not to join the amalgamation of Presbyterian, [...]

  • 12 July 2019

    2.6 MINS

    “I believe in miracles!” It was one of the first things our Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, said when claiming victory in the recent federal election. Somewhat appropriately, before leading in public prayer at the Hillsong Conference earlier this week, Ps Brian Houston asked him to [...]

  • 8 July 2019

    2.4 MINS

    When Israel Folau is asked to swear on the Bible before he gives evidence in the High Court, will someone from the legal team of Rugby Australia object that it is an example of ‘hate speech’? That’s a serious question now, because as Miranda Devine [...]

  • 5 July 2019

    2.1 MINS

    There has obviously been a lot written on the whole fiasco involving Israel Folau and Rugby Australia, but the reporting has been far from accurate. Take for instance the evidence provided by former Wallaby captain, Nick Farr-Jones, who was interviewed at the start of the [...]

  • 4 July 2019

    2.3 MINS

    Like Australia’s Israel Folau, Felix Ngole from the UK is a litmus test regarding freedom of religion, as well as freedom of speech, in the Western World. Just in case you’re not familiar with his case, Mr Ngole had been previously dismissed from his postgraduate [...]

  • 3 July 2019

    2.3 MINS

    The Australian Human Rights Commission has just released its Guidelines for the inclusion of transgender and gender diverse people in sport dated June 2019. According to the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins: Further, these guidelines have been endorsed by David Gallop, the Chairman of the [...]

  • 30 June 2019

    4.5 MINS

    If you were one of the 20,000 people “who donated to Israel Folau’s bogus fundraising campaign” then you are a hard-core homophobe. At least, that’s what Claire Harvey, the deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraph thinks! According to Harvey, she is the only true believer, [...]

  • 27 June 2019

    6 MINS

    Since the re-definition of marriage, no one is denying the validity of the “slippery-slope” argument anymore. Instead, they’re simply shaking their heads and wondering, “Has the world has gone mad?!” It seems as though the world is hurtling down the slope faster than the Gadarene [...]

  • 25 June 2019

    8.1 MINS

    In a recent interview with Andrew Denton, Madonna said that she wants to challenge the Pope regarding the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion. Not only that, but she doubled down and said that Jesus would support a woman’s right to choose. Is it just me, [...]

  • 22 June 2019

    1.6 MINS

    Now that Israel Folau has had his contract with Rugby Australia torn up, it seems that his wife Maria’s future with Netball South Australia as well as Netball Australia is also being called into question. Well, at least by certain journalistic activists in the media [...]

  • 22 June 2019

    3.8 MINS

    Editor's Note: The Canberra Declaration is an active, caring, growing community of people who have a vision to see Australia’s Judeo-Christian Values revitalised. The Canberra Declaration team are committed to working across the whole body of Christ which includes Catholic, Anglican, Evangelical, Orthodox and Pentecostal. [...]

  • 12 June 2019

    2.6 MINS

    Like many others, I’ve come to the conclusion that political activists are targeting the most impressionable people in the community, that is, our schoolchildren. And due to their tender age and intellectual vulnerability, they clearly think that they are ripe for the ideological picking. Let [...]

  • 20 May 2019

    6.9 MINS

    Some apparatchiks amongst the leftist media elite—i.e. The Guardian—are claiming that the primary reason Israel Folau should be immediately sacked by Rugby Australia is that his words are causing LGBTIQ youth to commit suicide. For instance, former NRL star and the first openly gay footballer, [...]

  • 15 May 2019

    1.9 MINS

    In the final days of the federal election Bill Shorten has resorted to questioning the theology of the Prime Minister so as to avoid answering—somewhat predictably—an uncomfortable question. The Daily Telegraph reports that the Opposition Leader was asked about Paul Keating’s description of Peter Dutton [...]

  • 22 April 2019

    3.9 MINS

    In what must surely come close to the modern-day equivalent of having committed career suicide, journalist Joe Hildebrand has converted to Roman Catholicism. And to make it even worse, his confirmation was “not as a child like almost all others but as a fully sentient, [...]

  • 16 April 2019

    4.7 MINS

    In the recent NSW election, Michael Daley—the soon to be former Labor leader—immolated his own political campaign over his anti-Asian comments when he bizarrely suggested that ‘Asians with PhDs’ were the reason that ‘white people’ were being priced out of the Sydney property market. Bill [...]

  • 10 April 2019

    4.8 MINS

    Why do those on the left feel like they have to keep imposing their own values—or possibly lack thereof—upon everybody else? Just take the recent furor flowing out of Notre Dame University. Maryann White—a Catholic mother of four boys—wrote an articulate and gracious letter to [...]

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