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How should we live in these changing times? How do we continue to bear witness to Christ's Gospel in the face of outright hostility and incomprehension? My theme is simple. As I have said so often over the years, the once-Christian West is no more. [...]

An open letter to Essendon Football Club on how their recent kerfuffle over Andrew Thorburn's religious values sends a message to conservative immigrants and refugees that they aren't welcome either. Dear Essendon FC, I realise you've been in the news recently because of the resignation [...]

Andrew Thorburn, who was recently appointed CEO of the Essendon Football Club, has been pushed out of his job on account of the views and moral beliefs of the church he belongs to and on whose board of management he sits. Those views, which even [...]

The Presbyterian Church of Tasmania expresses its deep concern at recent events surrounding the resignation of Andrew Thorburn as chief executive of the AFL’s Essendon Football Club.

Churches in Victoria must mobilise their congregations to vote Daniel Andrews out of office. Sure the Liberals are hopeless, but at least they don’t hate Christians. The same cannot be said for the Andrews government. Not only does the Victorian Labor government continually enact legislation [...]

The mob now attacking Andrew Thorburn for his faith was first discipled by Thorburn while he was NAB's pro-LGBT chief executive.

Just how should believers respond to persecution? Some things are worth writing about -- and often. The rise and rise of anti-Christian bigotry, hatred and discrimination in the West in general is one such topic. So too is the ruthless hounding out of a job [...]

What does the Essendon Football Club debacle demonstrate about how the "virtue" of "tolerance" has changed in modern Western society? There has been a great deal written in the past day or two by a number of Christian commentators on the “resignation” of the new [...]

The Respect for Marriage Act currently before Congress would enforce not only the acceptance of same-sex unions, but also "marriages" with multiple partners. This would further erode the right of children to be raised by their mother and father in a stable, faithful long-term relationship. [...]

Irish teacher Enoch Burke is paying the price for refusing to kowtow to transgender ideology. How much longer will this farce continue in Western societies? Have you heard the one about the Irish schoolteacher, jailed for refusing to address a male student as ‘they’? It [...]

This new document on the limits of the state is very important indeed. Around the globe, people are beginning to wake up to the rise of totalitarianism -- within the West. Many have long suspected it, some have warned about it, but the Covid outbreak [...]

During a recent interview, I asked Lyle Shelton what he thought the biggest challenge facing the Australian Church today was. He responded that it was the Church’s disengagement from political and social issues. In a recent interview for the Daily Declaration Podcast, I asked Lyle [...]

The government, public health officials, and mainstream media, tainted by transgender-affirming ideology, are all complicit in preventing parents of gender dysphoric children from accessing the latest news and best practice healthcare for their suffering offspring. Failing to affirm a person’s chosen gender is now illegal [...]

Understanding why transgenderism dominates the culture wars. Jesus answered, “The reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to Me.” “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. Then Pilate took Jesus and had [...]

Victorian MP Fiona Patten is pushing a new bill that aims to take away the rights of publicly funded hospitals with religious affiliations to refuse to perform abortions and euthanasia. The state’s current laws allow women to access an abortion up to 24 weeks into [...]

There appears to be only one acceptable narrative these days, despite the constant trumpeting of "diversity" and "inclusion". A professor opines on the Manly rugby players' apparent lack of education in progressive values. If only the naive Manly Sea Eagles players who refused to wear [...]

These two courageous politicians sure are a breath of fresh air. May their words bear fruit and herald the start of a positive cultural shift across Australia. Yes, it might seem like an oxymoron, but it does sometimes happen: a politician will get up and [...]

Manly's flirtation with wokeball ends in a mess. The officials gave lip service to diversity, but really sought uniformity with modern secular norms. “It'll be an inclusion game,” they said. “It’ll celebrate diversity,” they promised. And so it was. Except that the Manly Sea Eagles [...]

The inspiring story of two churches defying the secular state despite severe restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic. The basic right to worship God freely was severely challenged over the past few years as most Western governments clamped down on all sorts of basic liberties -- [...]

The fresh anti-discrimination legislation in the Australian Capital Territory will reduce religious freedom even further, applying the strictures upon faith-based schools to other religious institutions like hospitals and aged care, and even places of worship or university student societies. The Australian Capital Territory government has [...]