Rod Lampard
Rod, his wife Jonda, and their five kids are homeschooling veterans. Rod spent 12 years in management at Koorong, has a Bachelor’s Degree in Ministry & Theology, and is an independent journalist and writer for the theological, politically edgy news site Caldron Pool. Rod also writes for the Spectator. Find his personal blog here.
Articles by Rod Lampard:
27 February 2023
2.3 MINS
Alongside pandemic cronyism’s cost-of-living pressures, the battle for religious freedom is a vital political battleground. As a long-cherished key component of freedoms, protected under Christ-centred classical liberalism, freedom of religion is the proverbial canary in the coal mine. Learn from the history of Eastern Europe [...]
24 February 2023
2.4 MINS
Coles Australia’s current homage to LGBTism is another strong lesson in the absurdity of woke capitalism. Seeking to dazzle “the phobes” with their assumed moral superiority, the Australian supermarket is proudly declaring: “Everyone Is Welcome at Our Table.” The Coles Group PRIDE network campaign is [...]
17 February 2023
2.5 MINS
A Nicaraguan bishop falsely accused of “spreading fake news” has chosen life in prison over exile in the United States. Rolando Álvarez, a vocal opponent of Nicaragua’s socialist President Daniel Ortego, was sentenced on Friday to 26 years in gaol, after being “tried” for “treason”. [...]
13 February 2023
2.5 MINS
Socialism in Nicaragua strikes again, sentencing four Catholic priests to prison for the alleged crimes of “treason” and spreading “fake news”. ‘Anti-treason’ laws, forced through congress by long-term Sandinista dictator Daniel Ortega in 2021, have allowed the far-left extremist government to weaponise the judiciary against [...]
6 February 2023
3.2 MINS
Despite infamous UK TV host and columnist Jeremy Clarkson’s remorse, and an essay-length apology, cultural safetyism totalitarians are still baying for his blood. The former Top Gear host-turned-farmer for Amazon drew condemnation in early December after penning a reckless article for The Sun criticising the [...]
1 February 2023
3 MINS
A childhood survivor of both Nazi occupation and Communist concentration camps (gulags) is among eleven pro-life activists facing conspiracy charges for protesting abortion. Eighty-seven-year-old Eva Edl, who miraculously lived to testify to the Soviets' “anti-fascist” murderous persecution of Eastern Europeans with German heritage, told The [...]
26 January 2023
2.8 MINS
Conversion therapy lawfare claims its first victim with Maltese police criminally charging a former homosexual under Malta’s 2016 “conversion therapy” laws. Summoned by police in June 2022, Matthew Grech is accused of ‘advertising conversion practices, and breaking article 3, chapter 567 of Maltese laws’ after [...]
13 January 2023
3.8 MINS
Anthony Fauci critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr has launched a landmark lawsuit challenging mainstream media for its blanket censorship of COVID-19 content. The 68-year-old son of slain 1968 Democrat Presidential hopeful, Bobby Kennedy, along with eleven other plaintiffs, filed the lawsuit on Wednesday against The [...]
6 January 2023
3 MINS
The strong and steadfast faith of the Puritans influenced William Wilberforce, who dedicated his life to ending the pernicious slave trade across the British Empire. As demonised as the Puritans have been, and still are, much of what they wrote is alive and well 400 [...]
26 December 2022
3.1 MINS
Pro-life priest Frank Pavone has been purged by the Papacy for “blaspheming” on the “abortion-is-healthcare” altar of the Church’s left-wing clergy. Pavone was “defrocked” by the Vatican a week ago for allegedly making “blasphemous communications on social media”, insubordination, and having a general unwillingness to [...]
15 December 2022
3.5 MINS
Detroit’s school board has cancelled acclaimed neurosurgeon Dr Ben Carson, based upon claims "his name on a school was synonymous with having Trump in blackface." Riding on former board member and career Democrat Lamar Lemmons’ 2018 remarks, the board voted to change Benjamin Carson High [...]
13 December 2022
3 MINS
Dissenters opposing Iran’s hardline hijab mandate face having their bank accounts frozen, prison, or worse, if they fail to comply with what is being framed as a public health order. The 1979 Islamic dress code, which has been a catalyst for massive pro-civil liberty demonstrations [...]
9 December 2022
3.4 MINS
Asia Bibi, now living in Canada after being acquitted of a wrongful blasphemy charge in 2019, is speaking out against Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Calling them a “great injustice,” the ex-pat Pakistani Christian pointed out the lack of proof and “long sentences” imposed on those accused. [...]
2 December 2022
3.1 MINS
Veteran suicide is a terrible and preventable phenomenon. Our armed forces deserve better care after laying their lives on the line to defend our country. In 1890, Rudyard Kipling immortalised the forgotten soldier with the words, ‘The widow’s uniform is not the soldier-man’s disgrace.’ Kipling [...]
25 November 2022
2.9 MINS
Bestselling Christian novelist Stephen Lawhead's Roman retelling of King Arthur is being prepped for the big screen. Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing announced a multi-film adaption of the six-book series, The Pendragon Cycle, during what is the conservative media company’s equivalent of a state of [...]
18 November 2022
8.3 MINS
According to the Oxford Dictionary, a Social Justice Warrior is ‘a person who expresses or promotes socially progressive views.’ The online Urban Dictionary offers a more substantial explanation: “A pejorative term for an individual who repeatedly and vehemently engages in arguments on social justice on the Internet, often [...]
11 November 2022
3 MINS
In 1976, American psychiatrist Karl Menninger gave an unintentional treatise on how concealed sin is killing the West. He declared, ‘We have lost our sense of history.’ With it, the West has lost any ‘sense of morality’, sin, responsibility, identity, and moral integrity. Sensing Truth [...]
4 November 2022
4.5 MINS
A more honest headline for The Atlantic’s recent demand for amnesty over the pandemic response would have been: “Sorry, Not Sorry.” The sarcasm best represents the article’s smug sentiment. Author and economics professor Emily Oster inferred that we should just sweep the rubber bullets, totalitarianism, [...]
28 October 2022
3.1 MINS
According to marriage advice from an exorcist, who caught the attention of premium Catholic News site Aleteia, marriages are paralysed by a waning prayer life, pride, and porn. Milan priest Fr Ambrogio Villa gave a rundown on how he came to discover what he categorised [...]
21 October 2022
2.7 MINS
In the long list of 20th-century books still relevant today, Carl F.H. Henry’s Twilight of a Great Civilisation fits well in the “I told you so” category. Published in 1988, Henry’s 182-page foresight about the West’s drift toward neo-paganism joins the work with other late [...]





