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When proper parenting is abandoned, our children suffer: Here is a simple truth worth bearing in mind: children do not need buddies or pals or friends -- they need parents. Yes, parents can be friendly and someone kids like to hang around with, but they [...]

I was born in a small town in Ontario, Canada called New Germany, and was baptised into the Catholic church. My parents were in their forties, so I came as a surprise. My mother suffered from schizophrenia, and this drove my father to drink. As [...]

For an “irrelevant blow-in”, Lyle Shelton sure has wokey Leftists all in a tizz. News that the former Australian Christian Lobby director will replace Fred Nile in the NSW Senate sent the unhinged Left into apoplexy yesterday. Chief proponent of diversity and inclusion and tolerance [...]

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: [...]

Panel shows like ABC’s Q+A are a staple of healthy democracies -- a great format to thrash out the debates and disagreements of the day. But like an increasing number of Australians, I’m tuning out of Q+A. And for one simple reason: it is no [...]

The first little piggy built his house of straw. I got into a conversation with a young man in a coffee shop today. I was drinking my coffee while mulling over the topic of nihilism for this article. I wanted a young man’s view­ -- [...]

John Sandeman, the editor of Eternity, recently wrote an article criticising the Australian Christian Lobby for supporting Israel Folau. According to the heading on their Facebook post, “Several leaders suggest ACL might pick a better topic.” Significantly, the timing of this piece coincides with Martyn [...]

Dear Ben and Archie*, You may have noticed the many stories in the news about how lots of women have been hurt by men. Women like Grace Tame, Brittany Higgins, and many others. It’s been sad to watch their pain. As you know, we live [...]

ABC viewers have complained that the public broadcaster showed footage of Hillsong Easter services rather than focusing on “mainstream churches”. “Why have ABC News included footage on Hillsong in its segment on Good Friday church services? They are not a mainstream church,” insisted a tweet [...]

“The Great Reset” is a popular term these days, and understandably so perhaps, as we stare down a global financial crisis bigger than the Great Depression. There is no use indulging in wishful thinking that life will return to the way it was in the [...]

It is Easter again, time to celebrate the most important event of human history: the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This event is not only the heart and soul of the Christian faith, but it is also the decisive point of history. Without it [...]

I recently watched a segment you did with Paul Barnett, the former Anglican Bishop of North Sydney, on Sky News. And I must say, that coming from a self-confessed agnostic such as yourself, it was one of the best Easter messages I have ever heard. [...]

If you’re yet to watch Andrew Bolt’s Thursday episode of the Bolt Report, please make sure that you do. One of Australia’s more controversial TV personalities, Andrew Bolt is a dogged conservative, and is known to stand up for Christians when he sees them unfairly [...]

Woke mobs aren’t new. There was one out and about on Good Friday, if you recall. Following a Passover custom, Pilate offered to release Jesus, if the crowds so wished. But the leading priests stirred up the people, until in unison they shouted, “Crucify him!” [...]

I can remember as a young 7-year-old boy going to an Easter Egg-rolling Competition in Scotland. You are probably thinking -- what is an Easter egg-rolling competition? Good question! Easter egg-rolling seems to have Viking and Nordic roots. It is a custom in Germany, Denmark, [...]

Reverend William Kosko is a voice in the desert, in more than one sense. Parish priest at Saint Henry in Buckeye, Arizona, he recently delivered a heart-rending homily on the sanctity of human life that has since gone viral. Rev. Kosko begins his homily with [...]

A speech by Don Feder to the Kenya Christian Professionals Forum’s Virtual Life Symposium, at the Catholic University of East Africa in Nairobi, March 23, 2021. Ladies and gentlemen, I am honoured to once again address an event sponsored by the Kenya Christian Professionals Forum [...]

Dear Friend, This may seem a strange question to pose -- but where is your god this Easter? We all look forward to the four days of Easter from Good Friday to the Easter Monday Public Holiday. If we are fortunate enough to work in [...]

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 [...]