Akos Balogh
Akos Balogh is the CEO of The Gospel Coalition Australia. He is married to Sarah, with three children. Akos was born in Budapest, and was blessed to be able to come to Australia as a refugee in 1981. He came to faith in late high school, through the influence of friends, family, and school Scripture. He went on to study Aerospace Engineering at UNSW, before working in the RAAF for five years. After completing his B. Div. from Moore Theological college, he then had the joy of serving with AFES for six years, at Southern Cross University in Lismore. Akos serves an elder at Southern Cross Presbyterian Church, also in Lismore, and blogs weekly at akosbalogh.com. You can reach him on Twitter via @akosbaloghcom.
Articles by Akos Balogh:
9 September 2021
4.6 MINS
Unable to process personal guilt, modern secular Westerners have developed a puritanical streak in cancelling others, while trying to seek personal absolution through identifying as perpetual victims. Victimhood and cancel culture are a growing phenomenon in the modern West. More and more minorities identify as [...]
7 September 2021
5.3 MINS
The Western World is facing a mental health crisis, and the only solution is for psychiatry to get right with God. Why? According to the experts, religion actually helps mental health. The Mental Health Dilemma In Australia, a recent report from the Victorian government reveals [...]
31 August 2021
5 MINS
The Western world has shifted dramatically in its view of gay marriage. Until early 2012, Barack Obama held to traditional marriage. This was also the position of the Australian Labor party until around that time.[1] Of course, support for gay marriage has grown enormously since [...]
27 August 2021
5.2 MINS
Journalist and author Greg Sheridan has just released a new book titled Christians: The Urgent Case for Jesus in Our World. He opens with this explanation of why he wrote it: ‘This book is about the compelling, dramatic, gripping characters you meet in the New [...]
22 July 2021
3.6 MINS
‘The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. “Whither is God?” he cried. “I will tell you. We have killed him -- you and I. All of us are his murderers... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed [...]
29 June 2021
7.1 MINS
Domestic Violence is a monstrous evil. The abuse of one partner by another is one of the most destructive and wicked things a human being can do. And yet, it’s found among all demographics. According to the Federal Government’s report on Family, Domestic and Sexual [...]
17 June 2021
4.4 MINS
Religious freedom is under increasing pressure in Australia and much of the West. Places such as Victoria have brought in laws that will effectively penalise Christian teaching around sexuality and gender. And our broader culture demands we affirm particular identities and practices the Bible regards [...]
9 June 2021
3.7 MINS
Euthanasia laws are sweeping across Australia and much of the West. This so-called 'right to die' is now asserted as a natural human right with passionate zeal. It's framed as an individual's independent decision about their own life (and death). To this end, gut-wrenching stories [...]
3 June 2021
8.7 MINS
(This is an edited version of the first part of a talk I gave to Christian school principals at the recent Christian Schools Australia National Policy Forum in Canberra.) On September 23rd 2019, Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg addressed the UN’s Climate Action Summit. She began: [...]
26 May 2021
3.8 MINS
The Western world is in the grip of the cult of youth. Being young is in, and being old is, well, so old. Youth is the gold standard of beauty, of health, and increasingly, of wisdom. Of course, we should celebrate children and youth (just [...]
20 May 2021
5.3 MINS
For most of my life, I’ve been blessed with good physical and mental health. I’ve never struggled with depression. And I’ve never struggled with anxiety -- until a few years ago. To cut a long story short, I had a panic attack on a small [...]
14 May 2021
5.4 MINS
Can Jesus save the West? That’s the question Australian author Kurt Mahlburg seeks to answer in his excellent new book, Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? Mahlburg is an author with the Christian organisation, The Canberra Declaration, for whom he researches and writes. [...]
12 May 2021
3.7 MINS
Rapper and cultural icon Kanye West converted to Christianity at the end of 2019. [1] While it’s not unusual to see big-name celebrities announce a new spiritual journey, the mainstream media and entertainment industry didn’t quite know what to do with him. Not only was [...]
28 April 2021
5.2 MINS
Dear Ava*, Part of me wishes I didn’t have to write this letter. You see, I wish we lived in a world where all men treated all women with dignity and respect, at all times. Alas, that’s not our world -- at least not yet. [...]
20 April 2021
4.7 MINS
On the 10th of April 2019 Australian Rugby Player Israel Folau posted his now infamous meme on Instagram, declaring that ‘hell awaits’, ‘homosexuals’ and other sinners. Many people were outraged, condemning the post as ‘homophobic’. Rugby Australia eventually sacked the highly skilled player for his [...]
13 April 2021
5.2 MINS
I was born behind the Iron Curtain. But like millions of others, my parents decided to flee our communist homeland to escape oppression. We became refugees and emigrated to the West. And so, I grew up on stories of communist oppression: of authorities coming in [...]
8 April 2021
4.4 MINS
Dear Ben and Archie*, You may have noticed the many stories in the news about how lots of women have been hurt by men. Women like Grace Tame, Brittany Higgins, and many others. It’s been sad to watch their pain. As you know, we live [...]
24 March 2021
5.8 MINS
Teenagers are massive users of digital technology. The current generation of teenagers -- known as ‘iGen’ -- have grown up in the age of the iPhone and social media. Most of them can’t remember a time without a smartphone in their home, which they (probably) [...]
17 March 2021
5.2 MINS
The Victorian Parliament recently passed laws that will heavily impact Gospel ministry in the garden state. The laws were passed under the laudable guise of stopping cruel and unusual gay conversion therapies, but they dramatically expand the definition of ‘gay conversion therapy’. Under the new [...]
3 March 2021
5.2 MINS
Has religious freedom had its day here in the West? Sure, we still have a large degree of religious freedom. Australia and other Western nations are light years away from North Korea, Cuba, or Iran when it comes to freedom of religion. But let’s face [...]