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“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 [...]

“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana, Philosopher Part 1: Why Nations Fail This article is an abbreviated version of Chapter 14 of How We Are Amazingly Made, by Jerry Bergman, Graham McLennan and Tom Rogers, with thanks [...]

In one of The Australian’s most-read articles over the weekend, RMIT Adjunct Professor Victoria Grieve-Williams had scathing words for Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, a book recently exposed for its fraudulent scholarship: In 2014, Bruce Pascoe, exhibiting zeal and showmanship, produced a book that has now [...]

The crushing of the Aboriginal people by state-sanctioned fake leaders. 'I shall play the role of my State of Queensland, my Aboriginal race, my background, my political beliefs and my knowledge of men and circumstances dictate. This I shall do through the grace of God [...]

This new book by Voddie Baucham is essential reading: Voddie Baucham is a leading Black American Christian and conservative thinker. He was a former pastor in Texas, but now serves as Dean of Theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia. His latest volume is [...]

Father of NAIDOC William Cooper is the father of NAIDOC. The National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee came about because a committed Aboriginal Christian named William Cooper persuaded the churches to institute Aboriginal Sunday, which later became Aborigines Day, a secular observance, and later [...]

There are some great resources out there to help the church understand and to develop a response to contentious social issues that are impacting young lives. On the touchy issues around sexuality and gender, it appears the horse has truly bolted, us older generations have [...]

A defector from North Korea warns about the war on freedom in the West: Incredibly, there have been a few brave souls that have actually managed to escape the godless hellhole and communist concentration camp that is North Korea. One of them is 27-year old [...]

Heroes of the Faith We live in an evil world filled with suffering, even for believers. On 15 February, 2015 twenty-one young Egyptian men were executed for their faith on a lonely beach in Libya. Each had been kidnapped in separate incidents in the previous [...]

Back in 1921, a missionary couple named David and Svea Flood went with their two-year-old son from Sweden to the heart of Africa -- to what was then called the Belgian Congo. They met up with another young Scandinavian couple, the Ericksons, and the four [...]

by Tim Clark. Based on the belief that not a single person should be lost, a voyage of life makes for a Christmas miracle. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops just voted, a few days ago, to advance the cause for canonisation of [...]

The Canberra Declaration is committed to the sanctity of human life and the equal worth of every person. Our historic statement, released just over ten years ago, wholeheartedly affirms this: “We believe that all human life, being made in the image of God, has intrinsic [...]

An excerpt from Kurt Mahlburg’s book Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? ~~~ Conventional wisdom today says that people are entitled to their religious beliefs, so long as they keep these views out of politics. Under this logic, the public square should be [...]

I just finished reading Robert Lupton's book, Toxic Charity. He is the founder of FCS Urban Ministries, and has 40 years of experience in urban ministries and community development. In the book he directly challenges the “white missionary colonialist saviour” approach to charity. If you’re [...]

Destroy the Patriarchy! Women DON’T need men! The amount of times I’ve heard these slogans by angry women, the fruit of today’s misandrist climate, is concerning. Misandrist: a person who dislikes, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against men. Women don’t need men for what exactly? [...]