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A reflection on The Recharge, where young Christians gathered to confront cultural challenges, build community, seek God’s wisdom, and embrace their responsibility to act.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali has lived both sides of the civilisational divide — she fled Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Ethiopia for the West. At ARC 2026, she thundered a galvanising message: there is hope for the West, but it must stop those systematically deconstructing its institutions.

We don't talk about social atomisation, do we? Most of us would be hard pressed to define it. Yet it is reshaping our society in ways we barely acknowledge — fragmenting our communities, eroding our connections, and leaving us isolated in the midst of billions.

Middle-class Americans live like wealthy Australians. This fact shocks any Aussie who visits the US. The underlying reason for the wealth disparity is even more surprising.

Senator Ralph Babet (UAP) has been mocked for proclaiming God over government in parliament on Tuesday. Jesus is the only answer to Australia’s current slide into socio-political chaos, he explained.

A brief survey of the legislative landscape reveals a troubling trajectory, particularly of erosion of the sanctity of life doctrine in our law and professional ethics, but also in the consciences of our political masters and citizens, throughout Australia and beyond; a pervasive “culture of death”.

When does speaking your mind become an act of violence? That’s the question confronting Australia after activist Kirralie Smith was dragged through the courts for speaking about transgender athletes. Australia is fast becoming a place where simply stating biological reality is treated as hateful, even unlawful.

Scientism is the philosophical claim—which cannot be proven scientifically—that science is the only valid form of knowledge. Because scientism cannot establish itself through rational argument, it relies instead on three tools to advance: brute force, defamation of critics, and the promise of future happiness.

In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis warned us how power, divorced from timeless values, would become a tool for oppression.

The early 2020s saw a flood of panicked reporting on overpopulation, buoyed by the histrionics of Greta Thunberg, the IPCC, Extinction Rebellion and their ilk. Now, the legacy press is flooding the zone with stories about the fertility crisis.

Take away the history of a people or a culture or a nation, and you effectively take away the people, the culture, and the nation. We are today what has gone before in our past. Being unmoored from our own past makes us quite vulnerable.

David Closson and Joseph Backholm tackled some of the themes from this year’s DNC, including the promotion of abortion through all nine months of pregnancy and the party’s definition of freedom and personal choice.

Auron MacIntyre examines how Western democracies are being undone not just by our political elites but by flawed notions of progress, efficiency and individualism. At the end of the day, this is really a religious war, with two radically different worldviews battling it out.

The relentless pursuit of Assange and subsequently of Edward Snowden were important milestones on the path, via the national security, administrative, and surveillance state, to the rise of the biomedical state in which we now find ourselves.

Men and boys are struggling mentally, physically, academically, economically, and spiritually because of the absence of fathers, the failures of our education system and policies, and changes in both the job market and our culture.

Professor Carl Trueman has observed that, in an era that has psychologised the individual, freedom of speech is often viewed as part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

Have you ever asked yourself the question, “What would life have been like if I was never born?” I have. Too often, I do in fact wonder if I have contributed anything of importance to others and to this world in general.

When Christians gather together, they don’t commune together under a shared political or demographic identity; instead, they unite under a far more powerful and sacred truth that transcends mere demographic or political attributes.

One chief cause of division is the attraction of many Christians to conspiracy theories. A negative aspect of conspiracy theories is that they are fundamentally a form of Gnosticism.

As division is the poisoned fruit produced by deception and diversion, that is my focus here. The primary manifestation involves the breaking of fellowship.