I Remember … 24 May 1738, John Wesley’s Happy Day
A Supposed Joke: A man woke up one morning feeling down in the dumps so he opened his Bible and read: ‘Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a […]
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 […]
SYNODS, THE WORD, AND THE WORLD
Few things in life are as pretentious or embarrassing as liberal Church synods, and in May 2022 there were two Anglican efforts to illustrate this – one in England and […]
NO PRIME MINISTER
No Prime Minister Most of what I learned about politics came from Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby, and not least from the Principal Private Secretary of their office in […]
OVERTURNING ROE VS WADE
The biggest news out of America this week is the leakage of a US Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe vs Wade. But what is Roe vs Wade? In January […]
Freedom, Fear, and a Vision for the Future
In Finland on 24th January 2002 a landmark legal trial of a prominent Christian politician began, charged over her public expression of Christian beliefs about marriage and sexuality. This is also […]
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 […]
SEX SELECTION, FEMINISM AND ABORTION
Sin has a way of undoing itself. Jacques Mallet du Pan was a Huguenot who saw the folly of the French Revolution, and in 1793 made the acute and oft-repeated […]
NAVIGATING MURKY WATERS
Commenting on celebrities and social events has its hazardous side. We are warned that even a fool can be considered wise if he keeps silent (Prov.17:28). The death of Archbishop […]
More about Voluntary Assisted Dying in NSW.
Kevin Connolly is one MP who has spoken strongly for life when so many have equated killing with compassion. Here he is interviewed by Patrick Jason of Evangelicals for Life, […]
THE FABLE OF THE RELIGIOUS COMMISSIONER
Some of the frogs in the marsh came to think that they needed someone to lead them. It is true that they already had a parliament of owls, but, although […]
In Defence of The Religious Freedom Bill
Peter Barnes has shared his view from the bleachers about the Religious Discrimination Bill, with a series of criticism and concerns. I am no apologist for the Bill. It would […]
THE RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION BILL: A VIEW FROM THE BLEACHERS
There are those who thought that Statler and Waldorf were the funniest part of The Muppet Show. Whether a jaundiced bleat from the bleachers always gets it right is another issue, […]
A LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE – A CHRISTIAN RATIONALE
In her own delightful and resilient way, the quadriplegic Joni Eareckson Tada commented, without a hint of self-pity: ‘Perhaps I cannot stand on the shoulders of great saints, but I […]
Kevin Conolly, MP for Riverstone, explains the NSW euthanasia bill.
The euthanasia and assisted suicide bill (formally known as the ‘Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill” 2021) has been passed in the lower house last Friday. Mr Kevin Conolly gives an eye-opening look […]
The Corruption of the Australian University
The Australian universities—especially in the area of the humanities—are failing to educate the next generation. And we are now at a point where the existing tertiary institutions cannot be saved, […]