6 July 2021
5.9 MINS
This new book by Voddie Baucham is essential reading: Voddie Baucham is a leading Black American Christian and conservative thinker. He was a former pastor in Texas, but now serves as Dean of Theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia. His latest volume is [...]
3 July 2021
4.4 MINS
Father of NAIDOC William Cooper is the father of NAIDOC. The National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee came about because a committed Aboriginal Christian named William Cooper persuaded the churches to institute Aboriginal Sunday, which later became Aborigines Day, a secular observance, and later [...]
22 February 2021
5.3 MINS
There was a time when people in the West held to Christian morality as the default norm. It was seen as ‘self-evident’ and obvious. Whether it was universal human rights, loving others, or caring for the marginalised, such morality was by and large accepted as [...]
22 December 2020
2.3 MINS
Two weeks ago I released my new book Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? I’ve been overwhelmed with the response -- over 600 copies have sold in that time, and we’re on to our second print run. I begin Cross and Culture with [...]
5 December 2020
3.1 MINS
Several years ago, on International Men’s Day, Canberra’s ABC radio station rang me up and wanted to do an interview in Drive Time. I was happy to do it, until I found out my interviewer was a lady. Not that I have anything against the [...]
2 September 2020
8.4 MINS
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 [...]
18 June 2020
3 MINS
But progressives' grip on the levers of power is slipping. I turned 50 last year in the immediate aftermath of a failed attempt to become a Senator for Queensland. There’s nothing like a setback coinciding with a significant life event to put one in a [...]
29 May 2020
3.8 MINS
Dave Rubin is a rising star in the online world. He regularly sits down with various public intellectuals to debate culture, politics and – with increasing frequency – religion. His YouTube channel The Rubin Report has more than 1 million subscribers. A gay man from [...]
30 April 2020
6.7 MINS
Here are 15 new important books you should be aware of: In a time of forced lockdown, what better way to spend your time than to get through a substantial pile of important books? Yes I realise that my articles on books and theology and [...]
24 January 2020
5.9 MINS
Our culture is being poisoned by all this: The three items found in my title pretty much sum up where Western culture is now largely at. Indeed, we are awash in such things. But if you are unsure as to what exactly these three isms [...]
1 January 2020
5.2 MINS
You must read about “A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Redemption”: Becket Cook had it all: friends, fame and fortune. The young American had a great, well-paid career as a production designer which allowed him to travel the world and hobnob with Hollywood elites and [...]
14 November 2019
6.5 MINS
Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in 2016. Along with his Twitter feed, a number of new words entered mainstream discourse: ‘fake news’, ‘alternative facts’, and ‘post-truth’. In fact, the Oxford English Dictionaries selected ‘post-truth’ as 2016’s Word of the Year. Christian [...]
13 November 2019
5.5 MINS
Rand Paul’s new book on socialism is a must-read: Today there are far too many Westerners – including politicians, opinion-makers and leaders – who are seemingly oblivious to the historical record concerning socialism. Sadly we have people like Jeremy Corbyn in the UK and Bernie [...]
1 November 2019
3.6 MINS
It is always a great thing when respected leaders take a stand for the male of the species, especially for our young boys. Sadly, the vendetta against men and boys seems to be gathering momentum. ‘Toxic masculinity’ seems to be the buzzword of the moment. [...]
27 August 2019
1.7 MINS
What They Saw begins with the acclamation that ordinary people can make a difference; that is, ordinary people with a testimony and enough chutzpah to share it. Being sworn to secrecy, that’s just what author Monica Bennett-Ryan and her co-workers had to demonstrate to confront [...]
30 July 2019
6.9 MINS
My title may be just a little bit misleading. What I really want to do in this piece is list the ten authors that have been so very influential in my own life. And I want to just look at ten Christian writers who have [...]





