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Parents are under immense pressure in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. They have to be teachers as well as mothers and fathers. This is a huge burden to bear for parents who already feel overwhelmed with the pandemic fallout. In a recent YouGov poll, [...]

Some time ago, a young father sent me this incredible story about David Campbell. David is the son of the iconic Aussie singer Jimmy Barnes. David Campbell happens to be a singer himself, and a co-host on the ‘Today Extra’ show on Channel Nine. Read [...]

Demographic winter is a slow-moving train wreck. It has been for some time. Heartbreaking stories have emerged from the coronavirus pandemic in Italy. Hospitals are too full. Doctors are overworked. People die alone. Coffins pile up. The Pope walks through empty Roman streets, praying alone. [...]

The situation in Spain due to COVID-19 is dire. But what is particularly horrifying, is how many of the nation’s elderly are being neglected during this time. BioEdge reports that: Not all of the human drama in the Covid-19 pandemic is cheeriness under pressure, heroic [...]

If you are a Dad, it is hard not to feel a bit overwhelmed at the present moment. The coronavirus news seems to beat down at us from every quarter. Our children and our wives are looking to us for leadership in the midst of [...]

The coronavirus pandemic really hit home to me when a close friend of mine here in Australia lost his friend and business partner to the virus earlier this week. The father of two left behind two young children and his wife. Thankfully, neither his wife [...]

Today was going to be my wedding day. Angie and I had everything planned. A ceremony by the beach; a reception at the winery across the road where I grew up; thirty guests joining us from overseas. But then the coronavirus came. I first read [...]

In response to calls by an industry lobbying group to voluntarily close down the so-called adult entertainment industry for two weeks to halt the spread of COVID-19, Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., commented: “Wow. That is really decent of them to shut [...]

Assessing the interaction of adultery, no-fault divorce, LGBTQ trends, poverty, and church surrender. by Marvin Olasky Patrick Henry College professor Stephen Baskerville is the author of Not Peace But a Sword: The Political Theology of the English Revolution. His most recent book, The New Politics [...]

Many years ago, I was awoken by the incessant ringing of my wife’s mobile phone. It was 12.30 am, so we knew something was wrong. The message was frightening. Steve Stylianou, a good friend and father of three, had collapsed with a suspected heart attack [...]

To renew the culture and restore the family, women must embrace the beautiful order that comes from valuing true, honest, and strong men. By Carrie Gress Five decades ago, radical feminist Kate Millett and her eleven friends in New York City recited a type of [...]

Read: Luke 15: 11-32 Research out of the US is showing that Gen Z, our current teenagers, are the least Christian generation ever (Barna). Australia seems to be in the same position, with many young people walking away from the church, and oftentimes, God. Just [...]

What is a Dad to do in the middle of a coronavirus epidemic? Firstly, he has to try to analyse the problem and gather information to protect his family, and particularly his children. A great man once said, “The truth will set you free.” What [...]

We were clearly warned about this brave new world: In the 1930s and 1940s two parallel movements were arising: cultural Marxism, and those warning about tyrannical statism. As to the latter, we had dystopian novels penned by Aldous Huxley (Brave New World – 1932) and [...]

Malachi 4:6 – “Turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers.” Luke 19:10: “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” Australian psychologist and author Steve Biddulph says, ‘love grows [...]

Ruth Institute Questions Why Radicals Think Pro-Family Equals Anti-LGBTQ Right Wing Watch – a project of People for the American Way that routinely misrepresents family advocates – responded to the Ruth Institute’s Feb. 21 presentation of its Make the Family Great Again petition at the [...]

If you haven’t heard about Bluey, you have been “living under a rock” as Paul Keating used to say. The cartoon blue heeler that Australia has already fallen in love with is now going out to a global audience, thanks to a distribution deal between [...]

We all have to move forward. The good news is that Dads4Kids is on the move. Earlier this year, Paul Lassig joined our team as the Dads4Kids Development Manager to take Dads4Kids forward. If we stop moving forward, we get stuck in the past, atrophy [...]

Two weeks ago we celebrated Valentine's Day, and by way of celebration I looked up an older article from Time Magazine called 'The Science of Romance'. I looked up Susan Sprecker's 'Passionate Love Scale' featured in Time Magazine and ran the test on myself. After [...]

Editor’s Note: The Canberra Declaration team is supporting the 40 Days of Prayer and Fasting Call for the Lost Boys from Wednesday 26 February – 5 April 2020, initiated by Youth for Christ Australia. We commend this prayer call to you, for your consideration and [...]