Will you be a hero? When I returned from walking our dogs the other day my ailing wife said, “You’re a hero”. Little things done…
In ordinary times we can get by with ordinary men – and women. But we no longer live in ordinary times. We live in extraordinarily…
If I wait two years and one month, I can pen a piece on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But…
All around the world Christmas is a time where hope is renewed. It celebrates the birth of the one who came to save us. It…
In desperate, bleak times, we need those rare, brave souls who will rise to the occasion and make a difference when it is really needed.…
We live in a world where there are very few real heroes or positive role models. Hardly anyone today comes to mind of whom I…
The last few days I have been sitting around in disbelief, wondering if the world has gone mad – or at least many members of…
Heroes are in short supply nowadays. We don’t seem to have a need for them. Or we find them off-putting. Indeed, if anything, we seem…
The Australian Institute for Public Policy, 1990. In 1987 George Roche, President of Hillsdale College in Michigan, wrote a valuable book called A World Without…
The Samson saga is bizarre but encouraging: Yesterday I wrote about the Samson narratives. He was one of the judges, or deliverers, that God raised…
We all suffer, but how we respond is crucial: As so often happens to me, several things will coalesce at the same time, and –…
When radical leftists make a massive U-turn, we better stand up and take notice: When people come to see that they were living a lie…
There is a place for great fiction: Last night on the social media I half-jokingly said in a post that I can’t believe some Christians…
God is still at work: It is easy to despair at the state of the world. So often it seems like God has simply abandoned…
A great victory against Christophobia and hatred: The timing is interesting: In my morning perusal of Scripture I have again been reading about the amazing…
We need to be careful in our assessments of others: We Christians can be a funny lot – we can so easily run to unhealthy…
In honour of Averil: Yesterday was a busy day as we said farewell to Averil Ann Muehlenberg. It featured the noon burial at the cemetery…
Youth for Christ Australia, 2022. This is a helpful antidote to so much of what ails us: The other day I penned a piece noting…
There is much wisdom and comfort to be found here: Because we all suffer, we all grieve. But we suffer and grieve in different ways.…