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For Americans who used to dread June and its suffocating rainbow excess, this year feels different. A week into the obligatory LGBT pandering, and the storyline hasn’t been Pride — but Pride pushback.

Most of you know the story: God allowed him to go through some really hardcore adversity and suffering, yet Job did not curse God nor give up. He may not have had all the answers, but he had a deep faith in the God he served.

After ridding his country of violent gangs, one world leader is crediting God with his administration’s success. El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele explained how his administration took El Salvador from being the murder capital of the world to the second-safest nation in the Western hemisphere.

The Jewish world will celebrate Shavuot from 11th-13th June 2024 , and some believers who understand that the Lord moves significantly in the time of the feasts are also focusing on Shavuot.

Many Christians lamented the United Methodist Church’s (UMC) decision to embrace LGBT ideology at their 2024 UMC General Conference last month. With African and Asian churches leaving, over one-tenth of United Methodism is now gone.

One of Australia’s most senior Catholic leaders has called on the Albanese government to reject law reform proposals to remove protections for religious institutions from the Sex Discrimination Act because they are “a most serious threat to the existence” of religious schools.

We’re all drawn to transcendence – to worshipping someone or something bigger than ourselves. For earlier generations, God (or nation) filled that primal human need. But now other things are filling it.

Those seeking God and pressing in on Him will sometimes go through a period where it seems like God is silent, or has turned on them, or no longer cares about them. But God is faithfully looking after His own, and this dark spell is temporary, used to draw us even closer to Himself.

We may not have our names recorded in the Bible or in a newspaper today, but if we are faithful to our Lord, HE at least knows all about us. And our names ARE written in the Lamb’s book of life (Revelation 21:27).

We can only understand the Trump conviction by taking stock of the overt spiritual warfare that has been waged against him since the beginning of his presidency. The catalogue is a long one. 

In a speech to a parliamentary session of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the capital of Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denounced Israel’s ground campaign in Rafah, while also attacking the United Nations.

The emerging independent Christian music space in Australia is about to get a lot more interesting, with our first independent Christian music label, Australian Christian Records, signing their very first artist, LILLI.

Russell Brand’s conversion to Christianity is a celebrity confession with a discernible difference. He was baptised in late April by Bear Grylls. Besides Brand’s updates, it’s the ferocity of heat coming from his haters that gives us good reason not to doubt his sincerity.

Pope Francis thinks that overpopulation is a myth, and that people are the solution rather than the problem. Children, he said, are a gift to us and a sign that God believes in us, even if we don’t always believe in Him.  

Pope Francis recently said in an interview that humans "are a little bit rogue and sinners" but that "the heart itself is good". This claim is worth examining in light of church history — and the horrors of last century.

God works in mysterious ways. How He draws people to Himself can vary greatly. He uses all sorts of means in which He can reveal Himself to people and draw them into relationship with Him.

The Never Again is Now rally made me realise that this war is not a case of Jews versus Muslims, it’s not a case of Israelis versus Palestinians, it is not a case of East versus West — it is a case of Love versus Hate, Freedom versus Oppression, Life versus Death.

The growing gulf between men and women in terms of education, experiences, expectations and worldviews ultimately shapes their preferences and expectations on dating, marriage, and starting a family.

In the name of free speech and academic license, woke ideology has infected our universities' hierarchies. This explains why violent and disruptive protests in support of the terror organisation Hamas meet with very little resistance.

With Israel-Iran tensions rising, and the ever-growing threat of Hamas, the recent stabbing of Sydney Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel is beginning to highlight a very serious problem arising for Australians.