Category: christianity

Anglican Split in Australia Reflects the ‘Go Woke, Go Broke’ Trend

Commentary Recently, a gathering of Anglicans from the Pacific Region began their Conference in Canberra by announcing the creation of a new Anglican Diocese of the Southern Cross with former Archbishop of Sydney Glenn Davies as bishop. The split comes after events at the Anglican Church’s General Synod in May, where the majority of Australia’s…


Gotta Have Faith: Pastor Mark Burns and Nathaniel Pawlowski

Pastor Mark Burns was very influential in Donald Trump’s presidency and brought a new revival to the office of president. As Christianity continues to be mocked and America becomes less religious, I spoke with Pastor Burns about faith, as well as the persecution of faith, such as we have seen in Polish-Canadian Pastor Artur Pawlowski,…


A Reminder About the Moral Difference Between the Christian and Muslim Worlds at This Time

Commentary About 40 years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued his fatwa calling for Muslims to murder Salman Rushdie, the Indian author was finally attacked and nearly killed. Stabbed 10 times by a young Muslim living in America, Rushdie is in a hospital, where his prognosis as of this writing is partial paralysis and the loss…


William Brooks: From Western Traditions to Political Indoctrination: A Cultural History of Education

Commentary Education forms the minds of citizens at an impressionable age. What is taught and learned in school eventually effects the life and character of a nation. Questions like who should control the schools, how education should be delivered, who should be teaching, what students should be learning, and how they should be taught have…


Fire in the Streets: Understanding the Ideologies Behind the Movement to Subvert America

“’Whites are essentially oppressive. And people of color are essentially oppressed and have the vantage point that should be consulted.’ But on the other hand, you find critical race theory, philosophers, and others saying things like it’s all socially constructed. So whiteness is socially constructed, and blackness is socially constructed. So we could deconstruct them…


‘Continued Persecution’: MP Lambasts Proposal to Remove Prayer From Parliamentary Proceedings

Independent MP Bob Katter has issued a stinging rebuke of the Australian Senate chief after she proposed removing the Lord’s Prayer from parliamentary proceedings. It comes after the new Senate President Sue Lines said that as an atheist, she did not want to say the prayer, which has been read prior to each sitting day…


The Banner on Boston’s Church of the Covenant and the Decline of Christianity

On the front of one of the oldest and most beautiful churches in the country, the Church of the Covenant in Boston, hangs a large banner on which is written: “And God said… “Protect Abortion Access 4 All “Ensure Black Lives Matter “Honor Bodily Autonomy “Defend LGBTQ+ Rights “End Voter Suppression “Turn Guns into Plows…


China’s Persecution of Christians—With David Curry and Jeff King

The Chinese regime persecutes Christians in China. Portraits of communist leaders are placed inside churches and prisoners of conscience are arrested for their faith. At the International Religious Freedom Summit, I spoke with the head of two Christian organizations advocating for the stop of persecution against Christians and other faiths in China. I speak with…


Christianity Declines While More Report Having ‘No Religion’ in Australia

The number of Australians moving away from religion is rising fast, with new statistics revealing that the proportion of Australians identifying as having ‘no religion’ has risen from merely 0.7 percent in 1961 to almost 40 percent 2021. The Australian Bureau of Statistics’s census from five years earlier showed that the proportion of irreligious was…


Abandoning God May Lead to Disastrous Consequences

Commentary While the Australian legal tradition cannot lay claim to the historical depth it has in the United States; it was nevertheless built on solid religious foundations. The island nation has remarkable Christian influences—starting with the first British fleet departing for Australia in 1787 when Captain Arthur Phillip was instructed to enforce due observance of…