Recently I wrote an article called "Easter: God’s Vaccine for Humanity". Using vaccines as an analogy for the Gospel, I mentioned a recent news report about Bill Gates investing his personal wealth in the search for a coronavirus vaccine. I clearly hadn’t done my homework ...read more
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 ...read more
What might life be like once this pandemic is over? Will we return to a pre-COVID-19 Australia, or will some (or perhaps many) things be different? We can’t predict the future – as COVID-19 itself has reminded us. But I think it’s worth having this ...read more
Thank you to each and every one of you who reacted decisively last week to the news that the Attorney-General's office had said that the new Covid-19 Emergency laws would be used to override state laws in regard to Telehealth abortion access. Our united prayers ...read more
We must not get complacent about restrictions imposed during the crisis. ___ This is a free country. It’s a phrase we’ve all used, even from schoolyard days—often to stand up to a bully trying to exert their control over us. “This is a free country” ...read more
“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” So wrote Charles Dickens. This could be a description of the current effects of the global pandemic! The coronavirus world lockdown is forcing us together in the most unusual ways. Great pressure produces ...read more
It is well known that most who served in the Anzac forces were believers in our Lord Jesus. Many carried Bibles. I share three stories here. First, Harry Bell who lied about his age to join the Australian Light Horse and gave his life at ...read more
I don’t know when it happened precisely, but Mark Latham has become one of the champions of religious freedom in the state of New South Wales. It’s strange, because by his own admission he doesn’t even consider himself ‘religious’. However, the NSW One Nation leader ...read more
George Christensen is a Federal MP, representing the Queensland electorate of Dawson. He is also the host of a brand new podcast called Conservative One. I happened to sit next to Mr Christensen last year at the Church and State conference in Brisbane. He was ...read more
I woke up this morning to one of the strangest tweets ever. It was from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who tweeted: I have two main questions: Firstly, to instruct people to forgive implies that there must have been wrong-doing. If so, what is it that they’ve ...read more