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This week in the United States, two major walkouts were staged on either side of the transgender debate. One of them was covered extensively in the corporate press; the other barely caused a ripple among the nation’s reporters. The first protest was by Netflix employees [...]

The nuclear family has been under constant attack since the rise of Marxism. The Biden administration's view on the nuclear family is only the most recent manifestation of this. “There is no respite in the war on the family,” said Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD, [...]

American parents who are too outspoken at school committee meetings are being labelled as "domestic terrorists" by the Biden Justice Department. But parents have every right to share their views. After all, they – not schools – are the primary educators of their children. “Parents [...]

Adult activists pushing their radical ideologies on innocent children have a lot to answer for. Children should be allowed to be children, but today they are in the cross-hairs as everything is being politicised, including medicine and science. This is certainly being played out in [...]

New South Wales has a new premier. Dominic Perrottet was voted in by his party to replace Gladys Berijiklian who is undergoing a corruption investigation. Criticism of Dominic Perrottet The new premier has since been both criticized and praised by commentators because of his open [...]

Intention Scripture has the answer to questions of gender identity. Scripture “Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and [...]

“This is typical of the devious UN bureaucracy,” said Ruth Institute president Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD., commenting on a recent report by the UN Secretary-General which seeks criminal penalties for those who criticise gender ideology. “First they have an ‘independent expert,’ who’s neither independent [...]

Bullying is a massive problem throughout Australia today. As with any issue, it is important to approach it from a Biblical perspective. Might is Not Always Right With its proud history, the Australian Defence Force has been entrusted with sophisticated weaponry with immense destructive power. [...]

In an open letter on the French website L’Express, more than 50 physicians, psychologists, sociologists, academics and other professionals condemned “gender reassignment” for children. Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., congratulated the signers. “They have risked their careers to speak the truth. There’s [...]

A 2008 issue of The Journal of Communication and Religion (November 2008, Volume 31, Number 2) contains an excellent analysis of the importance of opposite-sex parent relationships. The common-sense conclusion is backed up with social science data and affirmed by a peer-reviewed scholarly article: girls [...]

A recent United Kingdom Appeals Court decision to allow puberty blockers for children was “ill-considered and dangerous,” said Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. The court reversed a 2020 ruling that those under 16 lack the capacity to give informed consent to potentially [...]

Marriage is the cornerstone of successful civilisations. In short, it works. However, according to the Ruth Institute, the recent popularity of so-called "open marriage" is undermining true marriage. "Open Marriage" HuffPost recently ran a pseudonymous article by a woman who opened her marriage to her [...]

Most Australians view police as protectors and have trust and respect for their authority. Unfortunately, this belief does not extend so readily through indigenous society. Indigenous women are not only distrustful of police, they face enormous barriers in reporting viol­ence in that abusers are frequently [...]

There are some great resources out there to help the church understand and to develop a response to contentious social issues that are impacting young lives. On the touchy issues around sexuality and gender, it appears the horse has truly bolted, us older generations have [...]

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) is clearly a growing movement. But not all Christians are pleased that it is growing. A common criticism is that Christian advocacy groups like the ACL or the Canberra Declaration have too narrow a focus on political issues to the [...]

A summary and review of Carl R. Trueman’s The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism and the Road to Sexual Revolution. It is bewildering just how quickly sexual morals have shifted, especially in recent years. Only yesterday it seems we [...]

It is accepted fact that “the truth will set us free.” The converse is also true -- falsehoods enslave and myths destroy. Now before you smile and say those comments are just too simplistic and too obvious to have any great consequence, let’s look at [...]

Young Christian women have been lamenting the perceived man drought that the West is currently facing. Even the ABC has chimed in on the conversation with an article titled Australia’s ‘man drought’ is real -- especially if you are a Christian woman looking for love. [...]

2020 was certainly the year of firsts. The December issue of Vogue Magazine featured on the cover for the first time ever a solo man. And more specifically, a man in a dress. Literally thousands around the world are discussing this hot topic and it’s [...]

A few years ago, a friend posted on Facebook a meme comprised of a picture with a Soviet-Russian bear and the words, “My favourite gender-neutral pronoun is comrade”. At first I thought they were joking, but then I quickly realised that they were completely serious. [...]