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How I accidentally fell into a fight to stop the sexualisation of my kids. On 25th November 2022, our morning routine had gone well. It was time to take the kids to school and I was on a bit of a run with hitting my [...]

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – [...]

There is plenty of incisive commentary in the new volume by Watkin. The new book by a Monash University philosophy professor and Christian thinker is receiving a lot of interest, attention and discussion. Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern [...]

The only influencers we really need are committed Christian ones. One hears a lot in recent times about “influencers”. They get a fair bit of press lately. The other day I saw a few headlines -- out of many: “Revealed: Victoria’s top 100 Instagram Influencers.” [...]

The Cambridge Dictionary states that “treaty” is “a written agreement between two or more countries, formally approved and signed by their leaders”. The Collins English Dictionary says, “A treaty is a written agreement between countries in which they agree to do a particular thing or [...]

Parents are increasingly choosing private over public education. Governments should respect that choice instead of undermining religious freedom and parental rights. For quite some time, I have been concerned about the attack upon private schools, and in particular, those who are faith-based. With almost boring [...]

We need comfort and perspective in our trials. Suffering is a universal condition, something we all experience. The Christian message is unique in that it presents us with a suffering servant (Jesus, the Son of God) Who entered into our world, identified with us, and [...]

The vulgar joke by queer comedian Reuben Kaye on Channel Ten’s The Project has once again raised this issue: Why is Christianity the target of jokes, ridicule and even outright persecution? While at the same time, other faiths are not treated with the same disrespect? [...]

Welcome to this year’s reflection on Purim. Purim begins Monday night, 6th March, 2023 until nightfall Tuesday, 7th March 2023. In Jerusalem, Shushan Purim is celebrated on 8th March (Shabbat permitting). In the Jewish Bible, we read of the story of Queen Esther in the [...]

There is so much great material in this classic volume. One cannot get enough of A.W. Tozer. Although he passed away 60 years ago, he is still loved and read by millions of believers worldwide. And more and more material of his keeps being produced. [...]

On their return to studies this year, students at a Catholic college in Melbourne were informed that their male Religious Education teacher was now self-identifying as a female. Students and staff were told that they were now required to address this teacher by a new [...]

Just how many things that we warned about have now come to pass? We told you so. We told you so. We told you so. There, I said it. Three times. I know it is not good form to rub it in when you tried [...]

Earlier this week on the Channel Ten show The Project, comedian Reuben Kaye made a crude joke about Jesus on air and the hosts laughed along. In response, many Christians and Muslims took offence and demanded an apology. Waleed Aly and Sarah Harris have issued [...]

We must not read Scripture cafeteria-style. God did not give us just some books of the Bible, or parts of some books. He gave us 66 entire books and He expects us to take them all seriously and see them all as authoritative. Sure, we [...]

What you must read on AI, transhumanism, and the new digital technologies. Whether we like it or not, and whether we know it or not, the new technologies are shaping our lives massively. We live by and for our smartphones, social media, information technology, and [...]

I’ve been following the proceedings at Asbury University over the past week or so. First, there was the excellent coverage by a few other writers here at the Daily Declaration. Then I discovered a number of videos posted by certain people who attended, as well [...]

We can learn so much from Jonathan Edwards about revival. Given how much talk there is about revival at the moment, and how much interest is being shown to the various campus awakenings in the United States, and all the discussions and debates about them, [...]

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 [...]

Years ago, while travelling to our friends’ cattle property in Central Queensland, Fiona and I were struck by how dry and barren the countryside looked. We imagined the wild animals constantly searching for water in that unforgiving environment. Desperate Need Without a doubt, our nation [...]

Onwards and upwards for Martyn Iles. Most folks have heard the news that the head of the Australian Christian Lobby, Martyn Iles, is moving on. Or, perhaps more accurately, has been given his marching orders by the Board. That has caught most of us by [...]