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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 [...]

Conventional wisdom today says that people are entitled to their religious beliefs, so long as they keep these views out of politics. But the idea of a “secular state” or a religiously neutral public square is a myth.

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 [...]

As I waited for the train home at an increasingly crowded Wynyard station, I caught a glimpse of the new Sydney Morning Herald advert. What struck me was the picture of someone holding a Bible. If the purpose of an advert is to get your [...]

This is one of the most moving videos you will see this year. It involves a young, thirty-year-old woman named Jane Marczewski who currently has cancer in her lungs, spine and liver. She has been given a 2% chance of survival. Marczewski -- who goes [...]

A clarion call to a different way of life and church. Foreword In coming to these potentially explosive conclusions, that our typical church service is irrelevant, impotent and decrepit, I am at the same time immediately struck by the life and abundance in many individuals [...]

Part 4 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. As we have previously covered, both Jesus himself and his apostles were fully convinced of Jesus’ divinity. In Part 4 of this series on Jesus [...]

Is there hope for the West? How will things pan out? It always happens: whenever I am out speaking somewhere, talking about the culture wars, the loss of freedoms, and the assault on faith, I am always asked about how I see the future. Can [...]

This is John on his arrival back in Brisbane after travelling overseas on his first holiday in a very, very long time. When I met John on a fateful evening in March 2016 in a park in Aspley, he never thought he’d be where he [...]

Lack of Civility on Centre-Stage Due to social media storms and loud protests, four venues in Melbourne cancelled their bookings for a World Congress of Families event in 2014. Many state and federal MPs also pulled out. A spokesperson for the Coalition to Beat Back [...]

Last week, independent Adelaide news site InDaily ran a scare story entitled The Divine Right: Pentecostal recruitment drive divides SA Libs. Its apparent aim was to spook secular Australians about the increasing involvement of Christians in electoral politics. “Senior Liberals are actively recruiting Pentecostals,” the [...]