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If you are an older person raised in the West – as I am – you will have lived through three different periods: Christian, post-Christian, and anti-Christian. We can no longer count on institutions to back us up.

Few things keep me awake at night like Artificial Intelligence. No, I’m not worried about Terminator-like robots taking over our world (at least not yet). But I am worried about the disruption AI will bring to every area of our lives – and very, very soon.

What has happened to Dr Jereth Kok is an appalling example of diabolical cancel culture at its worst. What we have are noisy minority groups wielding incredible power over innocent and conscientious professionals. This is so very wrong on so many levels.

We’ve all heard the rhetorical attacks on Western Civilisation — often centred on Christianity, capitalism, or colonialism, and often on all three. It’s worth examining the data to determine whether they deserve to be so despised.

Over time, I learned some "game-changing" truths that changed how I responded to feelings of anxiety. Truths — grounded in the Bible and the best of modern psychology — that serve me well to this day.

Who does not suffer? And how do Christians accept and enter its deeper meaning and challenge with clarity, trust and hope, and not with passive, puzzled acceptance, denial, confusion, resentment – or even anger?

JS Bach is known for his technical complexity, mathematical genius and emotional depth. But is he really the greatest composer of all time?

Former Trump administration aide Steve Bannon will serve a four-month prison sentence beginning in July. Bannon was charged with "contempt of Congress" because he refused to play along with the Biden administration’s hyped-up political persecution of January 6 protestors.

The Celtics are currently battling the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA finals. A reporter from Yahoo Sports asked if Mazzulla thought it was significant that both head coaches were black, given the “plight” of black coaches.

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.