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Thursday the 28th of May marks the start of National Reconciliation Week. However, it’s difficult to see how true reconciliation can occur when falsehoods continue to be perpetrated. Just note the following example from Reconciliation Australia, which ironically comes under the sub-heading Beyond the Myths: [...]

Seen as a Living Death Dementia is a progressive terminal illness which affects thinking, behaviour and the ability to perform everyday tasks. It is caused by a wide range of physical diseases of the brain including Alzheimer’s. Most people with dementia are older, but dementia [...]

The Western world is in the grip of the cult of youth. Being young is in, and being old is, well, so old. Youth is the gold standard of beauty, of health, and increasingly, of wisdom. Of course, we should celebrate children and youth (just [...]

We are excited as we receive reports telling a little of what God is doing around the nation this year. Historically, here have been many moves of God’s Holy Spirit in Australia. The 1979 firestorm in Arnhem Land spread to most of the nation as [...]

Can Jesus save the West? That’s the question Australian author Kurt Mahlburg seeks to answer in his excellent new book, Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? Mahlburg is an author with the Christian organisation, The Canberra Declaration, for whom he researches and writes. [...]

And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it. — Zechariah 12:3 After [...]

Vogue calls childbearing “environmental vandalism”. Gates and Biden agree. Last week, the left’s war on procreation was headline news. In the April 29th British edition of Vogue, Nell Frizzell wrote a paean to population control: “Is Having a Child Pure Environmental Terrorism?” -- a shameless [...]

Rapper and cultural icon Kanye West converted to Christianity at the end of 2019. [1] While it’s not unusual to see big-name celebrities announce a new spiritual journey, the mainstream media and entertainment industry didn’t quite know what to do with him. Not only was [...]

In time for Mothers’ Day, the Ruth Institute launched the Motherhood Resource Center. Founder and president Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., said, “This new Resource Center will be valuable to researchers, policy-makers and concerned citizens alike. Visitors will find solid research, media and firsthand stories [...]

The following is an excerpt of Kurt's new book Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? There is an incurable habit of the human heart to ‘otherise’ evil -- to identify all of the injustices of the world with some other person or group [...]

On the 10th of April 2019 Australian Rugby Player Israel Folau posted his now infamous meme on Instagram, declaring that ‘hell awaits’, ‘homosexuals’ and other sinners. Many people were outraged, condemning the post as ‘homophobic’. Rugby Australia eventually sacked the highly skilled player for his [...]

Ian Grant, the author of Fathers Who Dare Win, is a world-recognised speaker and founder of New Zealand’s Parents Inc. He is and has been a ground-breaking pioneer in the International Men’s movement To give you further food for thought, I have reprinted below Ian [...]

Steven Biddulph has written a book, Raising Boys, on how boys can be nurtured into becoming open-hearted, kind and strong men. As all men are not open-hearted, kind and strong, clearly we are not there yet. In Steven Biddulph’s follow-up book Raising Girls, he posits, [...]

I was born behind the Iron Curtain. But like millions of others, my parents decided to flee our communist homeland to escape oppression. We became refugees and emigrated to the West. And so, I grew up on stories of communist oppression: of authorities coming in [...]

Much of modern medicine can be traced back to devout Christians: That modern science, including modern medicine, in large measure grew out of the Judeo-Christian worldview has been documented by many experts. As to science in general, the words of Rodney Stark are worth recalling: [...]

In the distance, the townsfolk could see a runner tracing a hilltop ridge and then dipping into the valley on the near side. His silhouette grew larger and more defined as he made his way up a winding path towards them in the village. Those [...]

The following is an excerpt from Kurt Mahlburg’s new book, Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? ___ I have always loved punk rock music. I recently rediscovered some of my old favourite albums and my wife found it very amusing. My wife couldn’t [...]

An excerpt from Kurt’s new book Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? As a Christian and a former pastor, I am familiar with what it looks like for someone to have a “born-again” experience. Not all conversions are the same, but they generally [...]

There was a time when people in the West held to Christian morality as the default norm. It was seen as ‘self-evident’ and obvious. Whether it was universal human rights, loving others, or caring for the marginalised, such morality was by and large accepted as [...]

I became a Christian in year 11 of high school. At the time -- the early ’90s -- the typical response from my non-Christian friends was a shrug of the shoulders and a half-sincere ‘good for you’. Sure, I felt some teenage angst about being [...]