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It is vital for believers to vote wisely in these four upcoming elections: I hope that most folks -- especially most Christians -- are aware that there are four quite important elections coming up real soon. At the very least, Australians, New Zealanders and Americans [...]

by Peter Downie, FamilyVoice Australia. Last month, Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Sarah Bolt ordered Liberal Senator Claire Chandler to attend a “conciliation conference” with a person who claimed to be offended and insulted by a newspaper column she wrote in July. The senator had pointed out [...]

Cancel culture is censorship culture: The cancel culture is alive and well, and getting worse by the day. Usually the targets are Christians and conservatives -- especially Christian conservatives. But so bad has this toxic movement become that now it is consuming its own. We [...]

This new statement on religious liberty is well-worth being aware of: Throughout the West, the war on Christianity in particular and religious freedom in general is ramping up. Increasingly our liberties are being whittled down or taken away altogether as the secular state grows in [...]

Thin-skinned trolls bombard a small family business -- to what end? Last week on Facebook, I noticed a post on a page titled, “Diary of a Not-So-Angry Asian Adoptee”: What was she so upset about? The owner of a small family business, Cider Flats Apple [...]

I’ve noticed it, and I’m sure you have too. We’re facing a time of major cultural upheaval across the Western world. Divisions run deep, and the cultural rifts that have long sat silentbeneath our feet are emerging in the light of COVID-19 and the U.S. [...]

Amy Coney Barrett. That’s the woman President Trump is nominating to be the next Supreme Court Justice, replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At only 48 years old, this is an appointment that is truly once in a generation. According to The Weekend Australian, “Barrett is deeply [...]

New Year’s Eve 2000 was celebrated on the Sydney Harbour Bridge by recognition of Arthur Stace’s Christian message, repeatedly chalked on Sydney streets over many years. My daughter asked: "Why that word -- 'Eternity'?" I typed up the history, as she wished to place it [...]

You may have heard this argument before: how dare we speak of religious persecution in the West when the persecution of Christians in other nations is so horrific? I agree wholeheartedly that persecution in the non-Western world is a terrible injustice that we have an [...]

Why are so few speaking out and standing up for what is right? On social media recently, I suggested that concerned individuals write to the three MPs who had helped to pass a terrible bill in Victoria. I urged people to let them know their [...]

History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.

Incredibly, Amazon just banned a book on the dangers of homosexual sex that it has been carrying for the past 3 ½ years – a book published by Amazon Kindle Direct. Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., called the development “a flagrant example [...]

In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow [...]

by Jules Gomes. Editor's Note: This timely piece from Church Militant reports yet another case of "lawfare" being used to shut down freedom of speech on LGBT issues, this time targeting Lyle Shelton's blog post about Drag Queen Storytime in a Brisbane City Council library [...]

Some of Australia’s regional politicians would have us believe that they truly care for children and the vulnerable. Within a matter of days, two regional governments -- Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory -- have passed laws to criminalise so-called gay conversion therapy. Their legislation [...]

I grew up with a victim mentality. Nobody called it that at the time. But as I look back, that’s what it was. You see, I was a refugee from communist Eastern Europe -- from Hungary. I grew up among other refugees, among victims. Victims [...]

I’ve always disliked the phrase “I told you so”. It reeks of bitterness wrapped in arrogance, especially coming from a young person. Yet I don’t see any other way to encapsulate my frustration with the recent open letter from Harper’s American magazine titled “A Letter [...]

Why do we as Australians concern ourselves with American politics? Well, they tend to export many ideas to us. The good, the bad and the ugly. In this case, we should be asking ourselves how Google could affect our next federal election in 2022, and [...]

Jonathan Sacks laments the sad state of today’s universities: If you are a bit older, like I am, and went to university in your youth, you would be rather shocked at what we find there today. What was once meant to be a place of [...]

It is sad to hear about the passing of Mike Adams: Some of you know about American conservative and university lecturer Mike Adams. If so, you will know that he died two weeks ago -- suicide it seems. He had been an outspoken prolifer and [...]