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How do you run cross-country, let alone win a daunting race with the top high school athletes in your state, if you are afflicted with asthma and have a reluctant ex-basketball coach as your trainer? That's all I thought this movie was about: a young [...]

As Father’s Day is just around the corner, we are excited to be releasing our ‘Your Child Needs You’ Dads4Kids TV and Community Service Announcements. Already Channel 7 nationally has said yes, as well as community channels, Imparja, and Australian Christian Channel. We expect that [...]

There is a lot of talk these days about creating safe spaces. Mostly for minority groups who feel victimised. A lot of this discussion is dribble, but at times there is a case for such a cause. Some minority groups do need a place where [...]

By Sharmaine Meek. Just before Mother’s Day 2019, I prepared a video clip on the oft-overlooked consequences of abortion. The background was that the Federal Elections were only a matter of weeks away, and the Labor Party wanted to force the states to decriminalise Abortion. [...]

“It’s been a month since the White House conference on social media censorship and nothing has changed,” said Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., founder and president of the Ruth Institute. Twitter recently banned a video posted by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “Twitter said the [...]

My youngest child was visiting since my last reflection went up, and the abortion issue was being reported on by someone on the television. My child said, “I don’t know what the issue is, if a woman wants to abort her baby they should be [...]

An argument often used in support of legalising abortion is that the alternative leads to women taking matters into their own hands with dodgy backyard hacks. However, the reality is, the opposite is more likely the case, especially regarding the current ‘Reproductive Rights Bill’—a truly [...]

While babysitting my granddaughter recently, I watched her playing with an empty box. I smiled and thought, children don’t change. Give them something inexpensive and they play quite happily. It’s hard to imagine our life without this little body. She makes such a wonderful contribution [...]

Albert Einstein said, “Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.” Einstein acknowledged his failures as a husband and as a father in moments of candour in his private [...]

Phillip Adams recently wrote a poignant piece in The Weekend Australian which provides a window into some of the intensely personal reasons as to why he is an atheist. And while his intention is to present himself as being morally magnanimous, his autobiographical admission is [...]

Last night I came home from a busy day at the office. I walked into the kitchen where my son and daughter-in-law were cooking dinner. I instinctively reached out my hands behind both their backs and rubbed their backs as if to congratulate them for [...]

There is a saying that ‘a good father gets down to his children’s level’. This really came to light recently at my son’s 35th birthday dinner. Even though it was a birthday party for an adult, it was one of the most child-friendly parties I [...]

We live of course in an age that mocks faithfulness, derides marriage, and pokes fun at personal holiness. Anyone who takes his marriage vows seriously and seeks to be very careful in honouring that by taking care of how he or she interacts with members [...]

Eric Clapton sang, “If I could change the world.” Many men dream about changing the world, but very few actually attempt it. Some succeed in bringing change, but is that change healthy, or does it create more problems than it solves? As a student radical, [...]

Against all odds, Scott Morrison won the 2019 Australian election. He called it a “miracle”! As experts scratched their heads, what they didn’t realise was, the miracle did not occur in a vacuum. Across Australia, thousands of Christians united to pray for a righteous government. [...]

Some time ago I wrote an article called “Ten Reasons for Eating Together” for the Dads4Kids weekly newsletter to inspire fathers and encourage families. The week after the story went out to 5,000 fathers, I spoke to my wife about the newsletter. I said, “You [...]

To my praying friends. A three-year respite from the relentless march of evil. To plan and implement strategy. This is an outline to pray. During which time the church has a chance to repent, to become a “confessing church”, a united church. If we do [...]

‘Fathers Who Dare Win’ is a confronting but captivating title for a great book on how to be a great dad. Ian Grant, the author, was for many years New Zealand’s number one parenting coach. Ian and his wife founded the Parenting Place in 1993. [...]

The movie "Unplanned" is making waves in America for its depiction of the abortion industry. Based on Abby Johnson's book by the same title, the film follows her personal journey, including an abusive relationship at college, a surgical abortion, rise through the ranks of Planned Parenthood employees, and her dramatic turn-around into a pro-life advocate.

I remember when my teenage sons first played Korn’s music for me. I found it really disturbing. It just wasn’t my kind of music. I had grown up playing blues, rock and reggae on my guitar. I found the music very dark. The discordant riffs [...]