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Does religion oppress women, or liberate them to live with deep meaning and purpose? A new study undertaken by Harvard University suggests the latter. Author Margaret Atwood’s novel (and now TV series) The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian story set in the near future, when a [...]

In a conversation earlier this year, coach Elliot Hulse and rapper Zuby gave a 12-minute rundown on why marriage is still to be valued despite the downsides and its degradation in today’s world. One of the keys, they argue, is for men to reclaim their [...]

Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Germaine Greer are some of the most prominent feminists fighting for a better life for women. But compare their personal lives with those of prominent conservative female leaders and it's obvious who actually lived better, more fulfilling lives. A recent [...]

The fall of Afghanistan is a real worry indeed: It has happened so quickly. Kabul is fallen. The Taliban have captured the capital of Afghanistan and President Ashraf Ghani has fled the country. The US Embassy there has been successfully evacuated, and some fighting is [...]

This article can be summarised in three questions: First, how did we as Christians arrive at this state of being in a “culture war”? Second, as the culture has drifted so far from us, what do we have left to us and what do we [...]

“Dismiss anything else…. We will continue to be your single source of truth…. unless you hear it from us it is not the truth.” Thus spoke New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, in a video that has re-emerged for some reason after some 15 months. [...]

Please note the following article includes discussion on the issue of sexual assault. For almost two decades now, people have been sounding the alarm about the dangers of children accessing pornography online and it’s seemingly fallen on deaf ears. Little children, primarily boys, are consuming [...]

Very few people talk of freedom and its relationship to responsibility. Over the centuries, family has revealed itself to be this kind of freedom; one that takes dedication, commitment and self-sacrifice. Family takes responsibility and even a level of self-restraint to hold back your own [...]

A clarion call to a different way of life and church. Foreword In coming to these potentially explosive conclusions, that our typical church service is irrelevant, impotent and decrepit, I am at the same time immediately struck by the life and abundance in many individuals [...]

Destroy the Patriarchy! Women DON’T need men! The amount of times I’ve heard these slogans by angry women, the fruit of today’s misandrist climate, is concerning. Misandrist: a person who dislikes, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against men. Women don’t need men for what exactly? [...]

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 [...]

Since I came to Australia a couple of years ago, there is one word, associated with an Australian actor, which has been shouted at me more than any other. Mel Gibson’s portrayal of the Scottish hero, William Wallace, is summed up by his crying in [...]

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 [...]

For 20 years, Sue Ellen Browder wrote for Cosmopolitan about made-up women embracing promiscuity and the Sexual Revolution. Why? So the magazine could sell expensive products to those who wanted to be like this "ideal woman." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfQwx5cn6Ug   Here we are today at a time [...]

Former Kambala student Chanel Contos recently started an anonymous online petition to improve sexual consent and education in schools throughout Australia. And according to The Daily Telegraph, it has been signed by over 1,400 girls saying that they have either been raped or sexually assaulted. [...]

In order to learn, we must be honest, open and active in asking uncomfortable questions and listening to the response. Though as individuals we may not understand the importance of learning these hard and uncomfortable lessons at specific times, we know that these lessons must [...]

Has equality for women been achieved? You’ll hear quite different answers to this question depending on whom you ask. But here’s something we can all agree on: in the West, by almost any measure, today is the best time for women to be alive. This [...]

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 [...]

The days of women merely fighting for equal opportunity have long since ceased. According to Christina Hoff Summers, the goal of at least some leading feminists now is to destroy all men. https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1334126090080677889 Summers based this assertion on an article by Suzanna Danuta Walters from [...]

The cultural and overall societal impact of the deluge of sexual assault and harassment accusations has only just begun to be realised. Already, careful observers -- both men and women alike -- are noting that the broad and fuzzy definition of "harassment" can encompass behaviors [...]