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Jake's journey through addiction. Testimonies are powerful. For my book Lost Boys: Bring Them Home, I interviewed a number of young men about their experience with pornography and their journey to freedom. I was only able to record three in the book, but all of [...]

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (1894-1978) was the founder of the Liberal Party. He remains Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister and one of our nation’s most articulate statesmen. Menzies was a Presbyterian, and his Christian convictions shaped him and his social and political views profoundly. In and [...]

I am inspired by the fact the Southern Cross constellation is inscribed on our Australian flag. I want to share this with you: You know stars have always been integral to ancient cultures and have been especially useful for navigation. Our people gazed at the [...]

Uncover the Christian origins of Australia's Liberal Party, from its founding by figures like Sir Robert Menzies to its enduring influence and values in today's political landscape.

Political prisoner Paul Furlong needs our support: Melbourne Pastor Paul Furlong has been released from jail after serving nearly three weeks for the unspeakable crime in Victoria of daring to hold church services. For that he was whisked away by a group of armed police, [...]

Part 6 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. In this series we have seen comprehensive evidence that Jesus is God — from the lips of Jesus himself; from the apostles; and from names [...]

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 [...]

Chris Kenny, in a recent article for the Australian, commented on the sobering truth about Australian history: “Increasingly, reality does not matter so much in public debate as the narrative.” This has certainly been the case with Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, which has recently been [...]

We Would Rather Forget The 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian genocide in Turkey took place just two days before the 100th anniversary of landing of ANZAC forces at Gallipoli, also in Turkey. At that time, under the cover of other allied landings [...]

Last year Andrew Forrest (‘Twiggy’ Forrest from FMG) donated $800 million to cancer research. There’s a place for research, there’s a place for medicine, there’s a place for doctors and nurses, but there is also a place for Divine Healing and spiritual gifts. Since the [...]

Gratitude now has a voice. We as fathers need to be encouraged to be thankful, so we can encourage our children to be the same. Thankful people are happy people. Thankful families are happy families. I even try to teach this to myself, but some [...]

Editor's Note: David Robertson carefully examines the Sydney Morning Herald's claims about the level of domestic violence in Sydney Anglican churches, pointing out the statistical faultiness of the report used to bolster these claims. He analyses the faulty arguments used to suggest that women's ordination [...]

“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything.” ~ G.K. Chesterton Gen Z or Zoomers (those born from the mid 90s to 2010) are considered the most sceptical of all [...]

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) is clearly a growing movement. But not all Christians are pleased that it is growing. A common criticism is that Christian advocacy groups like the ACL or the Canberra Declaration have too narrow a focus on political issues to the [...]

Part 5 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. So far in this series, we have examined several lines of evidence of Jesus’ divinity -- including his own testimony about himself; what the apostles [...]

Religious freedom is under increasing pressure in Australia and much of the West. Places such as Victoria have brought in laws that will effectively penalise Christian teaching around sexuality and gender. And our broader culture demands we affirm particular identities and practices the Bible regards [...]

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 [...]

In recent days, churches around the nation marked Religious Freedom Weekend with prayers for persecuted believers abroad and better protections for people of faith here in Australia. Meanwhile, the South Australian Liberal Party moved to either cancel or challenge hundreds of new party membership applications [...]

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 [...]