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Within the space of a year, the West has moved from a world awash with money, high employment levels and ultra-low interest rates, to one of rising interest rates, lower growth and predicted high unemployment. This can be seen across North America, Western Europe and [...]

Adopt a frontier people group in prayer, and see the Holy Spirit work glorious wonders in their lives! Let us lift up our brothers and sisters to the Lord, that they may come to know and love Him. Christ gave us the mission to pray [...]

I find "culture" to be one of the most contested, discussed, yet ill-defined, concepts out there. It is a notoriously difficult concept to define with any precision. I think a good place to start is: shared human practices and habits which are not enforced or [...]

Parents, beware: The Cartoon Network is spewing woke unscientific propaganda at your unwitting children. I’m old enough to remember when watching cartoons on a Saturday morning was just a fun part of being a kid. These days, it’s a dangerous pastime where kids are actively [...]

Just what does it take for the people of God to rise up and proclaim, “You shall go no further!” 1 Samuel 17 recounts the story of David and Goliath. It is one of the most well-known stories in the Old Testament. The church of [...]

When we observe growing hostility to the Christian faith, it’s easy to begin questioning our own beliefs. Are we really as extreme and fringe as the media makes us out to be? However, it’s not conservative Christianity that has changed; it’s the culture around it. [...]

Some will ignore the evidence even when it stares them in the face. When folks are captivated by particular ideologies and belief systems, and are held captive to particular narratives, they can have reality and facts staring them in the face, but they will still [...]

If the planet were on fire, would your first thought be… let’s jump on a plane to talk about it? If it is, you probably don’t believe the planet is really on fire. But it’s okay, Yamin, because we don’t believe it either.

If Ukraine is unwilling to engage in talks with Russia that can de-escalate the war, allies cannot support this path of destruction. I was born in Soviet-occupied Budapest. But I grew up in the West, where older Hungarian migrants told me about the atrocities carried [...]

Free speech is the lifeblood of a healthy society. But there are some legitimate constraints on free speech, in my view. 1) Defamation: the injury that can be done to individuals as a consequence of making false accusations in a digital age are so severe [...]

There is outrage in Norway after a man was sympathetically interviewed on television about his decision to begin identifying as a disabled woman. Jørund Viktoria Alme, 53, an able-bodied male who now identifies as a disabled woman, told Good Morning Norway that he had always [...]

Adventure is essential for developing maturity and independence through firsthand experiences. When undertaken as a family, adventure forms lasting marvellous memories and excellent life skills. Some time ago, I rang a friend who was going around Australia on a 41/2-month adventure with his family. They [...]

A more honest headline for The Atlantic’s recent demand for amnesty over the pandemic response would have been: “Sorry, Not Sorry.” The sarcasm best represents the article’s smug sentiment. Author and economics professor Emily Oster inferred that we should just sweep the rubber bullets, totalitarianism, [...]

Just how are we guided into all truth? This is another passage that may not seem all that difficult to understand, but it can be misused and abused. Let me give it to you in context. Jesus is telling His disciples that He will soon [...]

Through a simple prayer followed by a friendly invitation, I found my salvation in Christ. By David Broadley In June 1976, my wife Barbara went to England to visit her parents together with our 8-month-old daughter Michelle. Sometime before they left, our home was visited [...]

Gina Rinehart has skilfully repudiated the attempts of immature netballers to make her bend to their unreasonable whims. My grandmother hated the Japanese with a passion. After narrowly escaping the Chinese Communist Revolution, she spent three harrowing years under the Japanese Occupation in Singapore, protecting [...]

A great saint with a great mind and a great heart has recently passed. I was not going to pen a piece on this great man’s passing, since a number of good pieces are already appearing on him and his ministry. The New Testament scholar [...]

There is a reason, historically, that we have single-sex spaces. “Transwomen are women”, or so the saying goes. But it’s just not true. Transwomen are not a subset of women, they are a subset of men. This should not be difficult to comprehend. After all, [...]

Across the world, countries are already struggling to find sufficient workers to sustain the economy and retirees. “According to the United Nations, the earth’s population will reach 8 billion around November 15. But, due to rapidly declining fertility, the world’s population may begin falling by [...]

We must read -- or re-read -- these three crucial volumes. Yes I know, calling a recent book -- or a recent anything -- classic can be a risky thing to do. After all, usually we reserve the term ‘classic’ for something that has stood [...]