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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 [...]

“Given renewed support for the family during an election year and after the COVID lockdown, even a radical group like Black Lives Matter has toned down its anti-family advocacy,” said Ruth Institute President Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. Morse noted that the Black Lives Matter [...]

30 I will praise God’s name in song and glorify Him with thanksgiving. 31 This will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with its horns and hooves. 32 The poor will see and be glad — you who seek God, [...]

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. [...]

In a year of ongoing global protests involving Black Lives Matter™, any artwork addressing racial inequality was always going to be popular. But the fact that Vincent Namatjira’s piece has won the 2020 Archibald Art Prize is ironically, a self-portrait of the systemic racism currently [...]

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 [...]

9 What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. 10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even [...]

Let the wicked forsake his ways and the unrighteous man his thoughts... for your thoughts are not My thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and [...]

By Russell Moore, The Gospel Coalition USA. ___ In Walter Percey’s novel The Moviegoer, the protagonist Binx Bolling reflects: Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, [...]

Ever since Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s providential passing, the radical doctrinaire feminist has been receiving -- even from conservatives -- something approaching an encomium of praise. In fact, CNN is reporting that Ginsburg “will become the first woman in history to lie in state in the [...]

There are no real safeguards when we legalise euthanasia: When it comes to the issue of euthanasia, here is a truth you can bank on: the more the pro-death folks talk about how “safe” things will be because of all the “safeguards” in their legislation [...]

“And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonours you I will curse, and in you all [...]

19 Praise be to the Lord, to God our Saviour, Who daily bears our burdens. 20 Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign LORD comes escape from death. ~ Psalm 68 This is an extraordinary thought -- and a great comfort. We [...]

A month before the 2016 U.S. election, author and “futurist” Lance Wallnau released a book entitled God’s Chaos Candidate. In this book, Wallnau went against the odds and almost every poll and pundit to correctly predict Donald Trump as the next president.

“Bear with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bones of peace: One Body and One Spirit.” ~ Ephesians 4 Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hidden: [...]

I once went to a men’s breakfast where Paul Bartlett, then a father of young children, was speaking about the importance of fathers in the lives of their children. He told the story of how, once a month, his dad, who was in a high-pressure [...]

“What if some were unfaithful? Will their unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness? 4 Not at all! Let God be true, and every human being a liar. As it is written: “So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge.” ~ [...]

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 [...]

Is it true that leaders of the BLM movement, including one of the co-founders, are calling on the spirits of the dead? That they claim to receive spiritual power from the deceased? That they talk with these spirits and even give them names? The answer to all these questions is yes.

As always, some clear thinking on the matter of faith and politics is needed: Discussions and debates about Christian political involvement will always be with us, and I will need to keep writing about this, as there always seems to be so much fuzzy thinking [...]