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Editor's Note: This article by Associate Editor Jamie Walker in The Australian highlights how concerning the push for voluntary assisted dying around Australia is for a diversity of communities. Is VAD the best we can do for the most vulnerable people among us? Or are [...]

On September 6, 2018, off-duty Dallas Police Amber Guyger entered the apartment of Botham Jean and fatally shot him. (Guyger said she entered the apartment believing it was her own, and that she shot Jean believing he was a burglar). On October 1, 2019, Guyger [...]

by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP, Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. Intention In our darkest hour, faith can come back to life. Scriptures The poor and the needy ask for water, and there is none, their tongue is parched with thirst. I, the Lord, will answer them, [...]

On Father’s Day Sunday 1 September 2002, we launched the very first Dads4Kids weekly newsletter for men. Sign Up Here. We have not missed a Sunday since. It is up to eight hundred and ninety-nine issues later, and no, I am not counting. Let me [...]

by Rev Harry Goodhew AO, former Anglican Archbishop of Sydney. Intention Jesus is Lord, even in the middle of drought. Scripture I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another, or My praise to idols. ~ Isaiah 42:8 [...]

by Pastor Tim Klein, Faith Lutheran Church Warrdale SA and 1st Assistant Bishop, Lutheran Church of Australia SA/NT District. Intention Life – even in times of drought. Scripture “Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the [...]

by Ps Phil Pringle, Senior Pastor and co-founder of C3 Church. Intention God’s promises can be fulfilled in our nation. Scripture IF My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and PRAY and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, [...]

Pastor Wayne Alcorn is National President of Australian Christian Churches Intention Prayer for unity. Scriptures How good and how pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! ~ Psalm 133:1 NIV When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with [...]

It’s an interesting time to be living in America. I’ve just spent the week before last in Washington, DC, where I had the opportunity to attend the Values Voter Summit—one of the biggest annual gatherings of Christians standing for freedom, faith, family and life. The [...]

by Ps Peter Walker, an Indigenous Christian Elder from the Bundjalung tribe and leader of the Uluru Bark Petition. Intention A strategy to come back to God and enjoy His blessing. Scripture Rather, the land you will soon take over is a land of hills [...]

Harvard-educated Federal Labor MP Andrew Leigh believes Australia could do with more churches. He believes churches are good for society. And yet Leigh is an Atheist. So why does he hold this view? Leigh has done research showing churches play a vital role in building [...]

Ruth Institute Founder and President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., welcomed the news that the Commission on Unalienable Rights will begin its work with two public meetings, October 23 and November 1, at the State Department in Washington, D.C. “The Commission has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity [...]

by Cheryl Lindley, ARC Global, an international community of Apostles & Prophets. Intention To encourage us all to continue praying and believing that, ‘He who has promised, is faithful.’ Scripture The Contest on Mount Carmel V.1. Later on, in the third year of the drought, [...]

All over the West, there is a major assault on religious freedom. It takes many forms, and it is being driven by an aggressive secularism and leftism which will not rest until religion is driven from the public square altogether. And then private expressions of [...]

Kurt Mahlburg, Features Editor for the Canberra Declaration, is at large and on the loose in the USA. If you find our six-week election campaigns tiresome in Australia, consider what’s happening here in the USA. It’s still a year out from the 2020 vote but [...]

by Christopher Noone, Moderator, Bread of Life Fellowship. Intention An end to the drought and for repentance and renewal. Scripture Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he [...]

by Rev Stephen Schultz, Assistant Bishop for Mission, SA – NT, Lutheran Church of Australia. Intention To draw attention to the goodness of God. Scripture “And will not God bring about justice for His chosen ones, who cry out to Him day and night? Will [...]

by Tim Edwards, Australian Indigenous Christian Leader. Intention God is a merciful God who gives us all a chance to return to Him. Scripture “I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to [...]

by Helen Brown, a Farmer’s Wife and Christian author near Inverell in NSW. Intention We are all equal in the eyes of God. He loves us and is trying to get our attention. Scripture That ye may be the children of your Father which is [...]

On the importance of national prayer and fasting: It is not just individuals who pray. Entire nations can be involved in times of corporate prayer as well. Ancient Israel had such times of national prayer, as have other nations. Often in times of crisis or [...]