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When spectacle earns more than service, culture reveals its heart. From million-dollar athletes to moral messaging at global events, we must ask what we truly honour — and why it matters. Are we following the path of ancient Rome?

A new policy from World Athletics will require all female athletes to undergo genetic testing, in a welcome move towards safety and integrity in elite-level women’s competition.

Four-time Olympic gold medallist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone said, “In my mind what kept repeating were the words ‘Trust in Jesus.’ I didn’t know what the outcome would be, but I did know He was who I wanted to lead me through the journey. What an amazing journey it was!”

Months after former Victorian Premier Dan Andrews sensationally forfeited the 2026 Commonwealth Games, citing cost blowout, making Victoria an international laughingstock, his replacement, Jacinta Allan, is bidding for Victoria to host the 2030 Gay Games.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Indigenous population has exploded from 548,370 in 2011 to 812,728 in 2021. The sooner we remove race as a qualifier for government assistance, the sooner Aboriginal people will be helped.

I want to disabuse folks of the faulty notion that unity is something we must have at all costs, and division is only always wrong. Sure, unity is important, but so is truth. And the reality is, when truth is affirmed, sometimes it results in unity, but sometimes it results in division.

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif wants the freedom to think he’s a woman, while denying others the freedom to say what they think. Khelif is all in for gender freedom, while all out to suppress freedom of speech.

Graham Linehan is a multiple BAFTA-winning Irish comedy writer best known for his popular TV sitcoms "Father Ted" and "The IT Crowd". Around six years ago, he was cancelled for the mortal sin of criticising trans activism, while upholding women's rights and child safety.

There is a positive out of the Olympic controversy. Just as the transgender issues are being resolved by major sporting federations, now intersex athletes have high global visibility, and their issues in sport seek resolutions.

The cancelling of opinions and the censoring of ideas is how all totalitarian societies thrive and survive. The examples of this sort of thing are of course endless today, even in so-called free and democratic societies. And that makes it even scarier.

High-level French authorities are reportedly behind the heavy-handed arrest of six CitizenGO protesters and their driver. After campaigning peacefully without incident since 9 am, the “Stop Attacks on Christians” bus was stopped by armed police in Paris around 7 pm.

The travesty that has unfolded in women's boxing at the Paris Olympics is a reminder that we must stand up for women and girls in sport and advocate protections for women’s sporting events that previous generations worked so hard to establish.

There would be much rejoicing in Heaven if, instead of becoming a diabolical portal to usher more rage into the world, this incident became the catalyst for increased Christian prayer and the portal for God’s saving grace in the lives of these people.

In many societies, especially in the West, people use their personal freedoms to say, depict and do controversial things. They use freedom of speech, and artistic licence, without fully considering the consequences and the hurt caused to others.

Unless there is a reversal of the decision by the IOC, Paris will be remembered as the Olympics that sanctioned violence against women. Medals for men beating up women.

Amid what is a deeply controversial Olympic Games for Christians, the performance and witness of Christian athletes like silver medallist Elijah Winnington gives reason for hope.

The problem with so-called progressives is that the very term they use to describe themselves begs a question that they can never answer – progress towards what?

Here, I must ask this of all my readers: Who will join me in committing to pray daily for folks like Musk and Peterson and so many others who seem to be on a real spiritual journey? They really do need our prayers.

The Paris Olympics made a mockery of Jesus. But God is bringing good out of evil. Now is the time for Christians to respond in a godly way.

The art historian sophistry prompted educated-sounding people on social media to inform the world that the opening ceremony scene definitely wasn’t inspired by the Last Supper, because can’t you uneducated brutes tell a Dionysian feast when you see one?