Written by Bruce Pascoe in 2014, Dark Emu claimed to recover a forgotten history of Indigenous Australia. Pascoe’s book asserted that before European colonisation, Aboriginal communities were not ‘hunter-gatherers’ but used complex farming practices, baked bread, built houses, lived in large settlements and invented democracy. ...read more
Part 5 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. So far in this series, we have examined several lines of evidence of Jesus’ divinity -- including his own testimony about himself; what the apostles ...read more
The Canberra Declaration is committed to the sanctity of human life and the equal worth of every person. Our historic statement, released just over ten years ago, wholeheartedly affirms this: “We believe that all human life, being made in the image of God, has intrinsic ...read more
An excerpt from Kurt Mahlburg’s book Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? ~~~ Conventional wisdom today says that people are entitled to their religious beliefs, so long as they keep these views out of politics. Under this logic, the public square should be ...read more
In recent days, churches around the nation marked Religious Freedom Weekend with prayers for persecuted believers abroad and better protections for people of faith here in Australia. Meanwhile, the South Australian Liberal Party moved to either cancel or challenge hundreds of new party memberships due ...read more
The Canberra Declaration has launched a new petition calling on the Australian government and private companies to reject the use of vaccination certificates. Our petition is called Vaccine Passports: No Way, and it reads as follows: What makes Australia so wonderful is our long-held belief ...read more
Part 4 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. As we have previously covered, both Jesus himself and his apostles were fully convinced of Jesus’ divinity. In Part 4 of this series on Jesus ...read more
Editorial note: Now that Petition EN2626 is closed, we have updated this article to include a new petition. ~~~ Yes, there is a lot of misinformation circulating online about the COVID-19 vaccines. But the question of vaccination passports is another issue entirely. It’s possible to be ...read more
The book Rules for Radicals, written in 1971, has had a lasting influence on political activism right up to our present day. It was penned by Saul Alinsky, the “father of community organising”, a year before he died of a heart attack in 1972. In ...read more
Last week, independent Adelaide news site InDaily ran a scare story entitled The Divine Right: Pentecostal recruitment drive divides SA Libs. Its apparent aim was to spook secular Australians about the increasing involvement of Christians in electoral politics. “Senior Liberals are actively recruiting Pentecostals,” the ...read more