Faith, rhetoric and the ballot box: How religion has shaped Brazil’s current presidential election Manuela Lowenthal, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) In the last few days before the 2026 elections, Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva —… Continue Reading
A warning from the right: US Syndicated Radio host and a sometime Reformed Theological Seminary student Erick Erickson on Substack: “A group of white guys have subtly inserted themselves into conservative institutions and church organisations. They all embrace racial grievances. To varying degrees,… Continue Reading
Moving a motion for Sydney Anglicans “to think wiselyand theologically about immigration and nationhood,” Chaneg Torres, a lay member of the Sydney Synod (church parliament), gave a speech that Dean Sandy Grant described as a model for the Social Issues… Continue Reading
“We now have a major party that is against abortion up til birth – that is One Nation,” Professor Joanna Howe told a rally outside the NSW Parliament last night. Introducing Mike Newman from One Nation, Howe said, “This is… Continue Reading
Here’s a story that dispels the suggestion that Australia should favour White people when we welcome immigrants. It is 1998 in a dusty refugee camp in Kenya, where Sudanese refugees Aduk and Deng Dau, each with some of their children,… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column Erika Kirk (widow of Charlie Kirk) in the New York Times, writing on grief: “Grief is strange. Time continues even when every part of you wants it to pause or, better yet, rewind. But the people… Continue Reading
Christian aid agency Samaritan’s Purse has decided not to accept $US300m in funds from the Trump Administration, according to a report on the Devex website. The funding is part of a larger, nearly $US2bn program through the State Department, in… Continue Reading
Mike Southon of Freedom for Faith on their campaign against a Tassie conversion bill. One week into the campaign against the Tasmanian Greens’ proposed Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill, MPs are already hearing from concerned Tasmanians. More than 450 people have… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall Many years ago my young family and I had a farm stay holiday on Hugh Fraser’s Mohair Goat farm near Inverell. Hugh and his wife were lovely, and he kindly gifted me with a high quality Leatherman in… Continue Reading
An excerpt from the Presidential Address by Bishop Mark Short to the 19th Anglican General Synod Describing the growth of distrust in our society, particularly post Covid, Bishop Short turns to the rise of anti-semitism as a prime example. The… Continue Reading