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Pain stinks, but it can often serve useful and redemptive purposes: OK, my title can go in all sorts of directions, and in a moment I will discuss some spiritual truths about pain. But my title may cause some to think of something similar. Back [...]

This article can be summarised in three questions: First, how did we as Christians arrive at this state of being in a “culture war”? Second, as the culture has drifted so far from us, what do we have left to us and what do we [...]

By Justus R. Hope, MD. Editor's Note: This piece by a concerned doctor gives us pause for thought over the reliability of sites like Wikipedia in relaying accurate medical information on the pandemic. What vested interests and biases are skewing their reliability? Read the original [...]

Fear greatly our loss of freedoms and basic human rights: When the ever-expanding State effectively colludes with monolithic Tech Giants and Big Business to censor free speech and free thought, you know you are living in very dangerous times. And using the excuse of COVID-19 [...]

An AP article. The issue of mandatory vaccination -- especially in relation to COVID-19 -- is causing significant division within the broader community and specifically the church. Already the Australian government has made it compulsory for people entering public buildings to register with a QR [...]

The church is God’s outpost in enemy-occupied territory: A new book I just picked up had a line that grabbed my attention. (No surprises here: I am always getting new books, and I am always finding things that jump out at me!) The book, by [...]

The best-kept secret in America today is the precipitous drop in the quality of college since the Left seized power in higher education. Every year, various magazines publish a list of rankings for American undergraduate institutions. Forbes assures parents that "Every school with a Forbes [...]

Scripture assures us that the purposes of God stand: It was the Dutch survivor of Nazi concentration camps Corrie ten Boom who once said, “If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God [...]

(Inspired by a recent Zits comic, where Jeremy comes home to find there is a new rug in the kitchen and he reminisces about the old one being a magic carpet and comments that “it’s weird... like someone erased a piece of my childhood.”) Longing! [...]

History can teach us much about the decline of cultures: The value of history is that we will hopefully learn from it. But as we become more and more dumbed down in the West -- not just about history, but about pretty much everything else [...]

Most Australians view police as protectors and have trust and respect for their authority. Unfortunately, this belief does not extend so readily through indigenous society. Indigenous women are not only distrustful of police, they face enormous barriers in reporting viol­ence in that abusers are frequently [...]

Our lives as believers matter more than we might think: Something caught my attention moments ago, and as is often the case, it is now being spun into a whole new article! In his 1988 book Confessions of a Twentieth-Century Pilgrim, at one point Malcolm [...]

‘The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. “Whither is God?” he cried. “I will tell you. We have killed him -- you and I. All of us are his murderers... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed [...]

Editor's Note: This is a profoundly real and self-revelatory article for those fathers who are grappling with the deeper issues of fatherhood. Full congratulations to Rod Lampard for sharing his journey with us. This is a case of strong meat for strong men. ___ “You’re [...]

“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his [...]

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ~ Viktor Frankl, Jewish Holocaust survivor When Viktor Frankl arrived at the Nazi prison camp, he immediately promised himself that he wouldn’t ‘run into the wire’, a term for the [...]

Most Australians have never lived under an authoritarian dictatorship, and therefore we are largely ignorant of how quickly circumstances can descend. It was the great Russian novelist Alexander Solzenitsyn who resolutely warned against this kind of wishful thinking. In Live Not By Lies, Rod Dreher [...]

Time Magazine did a story about the ‘Most Significant Person in History’, and concluded after a very comprehensive and detailed research program that Jesus was that person. The results appeared in their December 10th, 2013 edition. If one googles ‘the most significant person in History’ [...]

American historian Daniel J. Boorstin once said that “the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” These words ring particularly true when we consider the behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry, or ‘Big Pharma’. Over the past two years, two [...]

Throughout the history of mankind, the natural progression of life has been birth, ultimately followed by death at some point in time. During these trying times, it might be worth looking at the importance of parenting. When we observe the wonder of birth, we are [...]