Is The Voice Australia’s Brexit?
The polls are open – and for the next few days up until the official voting date, October the 14th, Australians will be able to vote on the Voice referendum. For […]
I AM NOW A CULTURAL WARRIOR
Should Christians be Culture Warriors? ‘I was wrong’. This is not a phrase I use a lot! At least when it comes to major subjects. Over the years I have […]
ANTI-CONVERSION COERCION IN TASMANIA, part 3
The World Turned Upside Down “Beliefs about the normativity of human sexuality and gender identity were dominant in Western society, science and medicine until the latter part of the 20th […]
ANTI-CONVERSION COERCION IN TASMANIA, part 2
The Emperor Has No Clothes Tasmanian Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conversion Practices- A Response – Part 2 In part 1 we noted that the TLRI report expresses concern about […]
Anti-Conversion Coercion in Tasmania, part 1
The Canary in the Coal Mine – Tasmanian Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conversion Practices Part One: Pseudo-Science and Pseudo–Needs The Tasmanian Law Reform Institute (TLRI) have produced a report […]
BIGOTRY, ANGER AND CONFUSION
Hypocrisy and Hate in Anti-Christian Victoria
Sometimes an event occurs which is of much more importance than the mere sum of what happened. This week one such event has shown the Australian church has just how […]
THE SERMON THAT EXPOSED AUSTRALIA
It was an orthodox Christian sermon speaking about anxiety, trusting the Lord and God being with us in troubled times. As such you would not expect the Sydney Morning Herald […]
CHRISTIANITY AND LIBERALISM
Do Progressives and Biblical Christians agree on 90% of Doctrines? Professor Dorothy Lee of the Trinity Divinity College, the University of Melbourne, told the Anglican General Synod that all the […]
What does the Australian Election mean for the Church in Australia
Anthony Albanese has been sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Australia. Is this a significant event? Some secular commentators have described it in almost ecstatic terms – ‘This is Australia […]
Bishops Betray Christ
Bishops Betray Christ – But There is Hope It was an interesting headline in the Australian: ‘Conservatives crushed in Anglican same sex marriage vote’. Reading the headline gave the impression […]
The Attack on Sydney Anglicanism
Sydney Anglicanism has been, and continues to be, a great blessing for the Church in Australia. Its commitment to biblical truth and to mission is well known. But for how […]
Apartheid Australia 
There was a time when those on the left knew that apartheid was wrong. The South African system of ‘separate cultural development’ was rightly considered to be segregationist, racist and evil. But […]
Advance Australia Fair? 
Watching the Australia Day celebrations whilst on holiday was much more interesting and revealing than I had anticipated. Normally I am bored to tears by these kinds of events however I […]
The Green Captivity of the Church
Even as I pressed the send button I knew it was a risky moment. And so it proved to be. As soon as the article was published on a Christian website, there […]
The Bad Bishop and the Good Story
When I read the article about Bishop Rod Chiswell in The Australian, I knew nothing of him. If I believed the article I would have thought that he was at best […]