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Jordan Peterson has been called the “the stupid man’s smart person”, and, one of my favorites, “a Messiah-cum-surrogate-dad for gormless dimwits”. Tiago Faleiro believes “He is the worst intellectual of our time”. He is, according to the New York Times, “a patriarchal pseudointellectual, riding his [...]

This month, the Banking Royal Commission uncovered atrocious greed and dishonesty in Australia’s finance sector. Among its findings were executives receiving bonuses of 300 per cent, customers being charged for no service, and even a man with down syndrome being sold insurance he didn’t understand [...]

Most weekday mornings Alison and I get up at about 5.40AM, push each other out of bed, and go for our early morning ‘Gym & Fitness Walk Session’, at least that’s what I call it. We walk down to the gym about 2-3 minutes and [...]

A mother’s womb is an incredible place. In this warm and nutrient-rich environment, a tiny egg is fertilised, and 40 weeks later a beautiful, fully formed human emerges. No wonder the word miracle is so often used by parents to describe the birth of their [...]

Some of you may have heard of the term “identity politics” but may not be sure just what it means. The issue of identity politics is a relatively recent one. It just did not exist as it now does a few short decades ago. But [...]

We’re two decades into the new millennium but something strange is in the air. We can’t name it, but somehow, we can sense it. In the West, new trinkets and ideas surround us; still something about our lives feels frayed, hollow, fractured. Francis Schaeffer’s Escape [...]

The title of this article, “Secrets of the Superdads”, is taken from the ABC Science Show screened several years ago. It is even more relevant today than the day it was made. You know that the fatherhood revolution is well underway when the ABC screens [...]

I can always remember Dr Bruce Robson, Australia’s best-selling fatherhood author, telling the guys at the ‘Good to Great’ Fatherhood Course about Janis Joplin’s father. For those who don’t know her musical history, Janis Joplin was one of the great female vocalists of the late [...]

As I was growing up in Singapore, I did not really get to know other people in church. My parish was rather large, with 6000-8000 parishioners, and I was quite introverted during Sunday School classes, making only one friend there in my early teens, who [...]

Robert Hughes vs Rev. Samuel Marsden If the Rev. Samuel Marsden (25 June 1765 – 12 May 1838) and Robert Hughes (28 July 1938 – 6 August 2012) were both alive today, it is almost certain that the former would have sued the latter for [...]

It says in Isaiah 9:6, speaking about a future time, “That the government shall be upon His (Jesus) shoulder.” At the present time the Government in Australia is still in the hands of men and is voted in federally every three years. That’s why we [...]

Some 2000 years ago the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder very wisely said this: “What we do to our children, they will do to society.” In a very similar vein Karl Meninger much more recently put it this way: “What’s done to children, they will [...]

Gillette has jumped on the #metoo bandwagon, and in the process has derogated masculinity. I have a lot of sympathy for the #metoo movement, because one in four women and one in six men have been sexually assaulted. From my counselling experience, those figures are [...]