What price would you pay to follow Jesus? Five hundred years ago, the people of Europe whispered of a mysterious ‘Garden of Eden’ across the seas. It was a distant paradise better known as the Spice Islands, the home of cloves and nutmeg. In London ...read more
It’s becoming more obvious with each passing year, and just about everyone in the West will agree: to be a Christian means to walk out of step with mainstream culture. It’s such a fixed feature of modern life that Christians have adapted a variety of ...read more
A couple years back during that infamous postal vote, 62% of Australians voted to legalise same-sex marriage. During the debate, many warned that if marriage was redefined, a host of injustices would follow. People of faith could lose their jobs, gender-fluid teaching might take over ...read more
Like me, you may have noticed the calls growing louder each year to change the date of Australia Day—or even abolish it altogether. This weekend, for example, Greens leader Richard De Natale tweeted: Today is not a day of celebration. For First Nations people it ...read more
It almost sounds fictional, doesn’t it? Like a sick plot from a dystopian novel. But here we are in 2020, and governments across the western hemisphere are sending their citizens’—our—tax dollars to abort brown babies in Africa, Asia and Latin America. So much for letting ...read more
The fires that have torn through the Australian landscape in recent weeks are without doubt the most widespread natural disaster in our nation's living memory. Fellow Australians are hurting as they grieve the loss of properties, livelihoods and loved ones. Yet in the flames and ...read more
The president of UQ’s conservative Liberal National Club, who protested a children’s drag queen event at a Brisbane library on Sunday, has been found dead. Wilson Gavin, 21, was found by Queensland police and ambulance services at Chelmer Railway Station just after 7am the day ...read more
After months of record-breaking drought, our beautiful country of Australia is now facing a terrible season of bushfires. Since October, five million hectares of land have been burnt—an area as big as Croatia. Over 1300 homes have been destroyed, and sadly, 17 people have lost ...read more
First it was Brexit in 2016. A few months later it was Trump. In May this year, Australia was stunned to see Scott Morrison soar to victory. And most recently, in a landslide result that stole the world’s attention, Boris Johnson turned Britain blue. Posting ...read more
I love Christmas carols. They are the soundtrack of the season. As great as carols are, it’s possible to make it through the whole month of December, hear these tunes, and yet not tune in to what the carols are really saying. On closer inspection, ...read more
