Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
Harry Palmer Near the end of my secondary schooling in the late 1950s, my English teacher was Mr Dooley. He was apparently required to also teach what’s now called ‘civics’ – how politics worked, how to take out a mortgage to buy a house, etc – and he gave us a
In a lengthy article about NZ First’s deputy leader, Shane Jones, is this gem. “I feel that the purveyors and advocates of indigenous rights are trying to unpick the treaty. There is no native sovereignty, there is no indigenous sovereignty, there is an indivisible citizenship and indivisible sovereignty and
bobmccoskrie.com Recent research published in the Journal of Family Psychology continues to endorse just how important the dinner table is, as well as the presence of parents. TRANSCRIPT: I’ve always been aware that the family meal table holds something special. I even wrote a full report on what
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. newsbusters.
Jerusalem is a place you might want to visit during the week-long celebration of Succoth/Feast of the Tabernacles. Succoth is a festive holiday: biblical, colourful and full of symbolism that reflects the celebration of the annual harvest and at the same time the fragility and impermanence of wandering and
In the leaders’ debate there was a single question on foreign policy – about AUKUS. I am a US citizen and one of the true oddities of being an American abroad is the astonishing similarities to being a ‘made man’ in cosa nostra. Let me explain. In 1986 the US Congress
Yesterday, Labour released its “Rainbow manifesto”. Labour would work to improve Rainbow health and ensure the health care system meets the needs of trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people. Specific promises include: […] Schools would be encouraged to adopt the Ministry of Education’s sexuality education guidelines while teachers would be given
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com The heavily promoted narrative, which has ramped up over the last six years, is that Maori somehow have special vulnerabilities which arise from outside forces they cannot control; that contemporary society fails to meet their needs. They are not receptive to messages and opportunities in the same
David Gordon David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He was educated at UCLA, where he earned his PhD in history. He is the author of Resurrecting Economics, An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, An Austro-Libertarian View (three volumes), and Resurrecting Marx. He is also editor of
Heather du Plessis-Allan recently had an epiphany. She didn’t know that many Kiwis don’t want co-governance being forced upon us without our consent. Du Plessis-Allan says, “That result surprised me. It was many times higher than I would have expected.” And she concludes, “ignoring this simmering anger is
righttolife.org.uk A euthanasia group that set up Canada’s first “euthanasia house” is aiming to open similar “houses” where people can go to end their life through euthanasia throughout Canada. In 2018, two years after euthanasia and assisted suicide had been made legal in Canada, a group of
Boomers, as we all know, like to think they invented everything. Teenage sex (what, they never read Romeo and Juliet?), adolescent rebellion (ask Plato about that one), recreational drugs (the entire history of the human race is a saga of inventing new ways to get messed up), and rock’n’
No doubt due to the cautionary tales of mothers everywhere hoping to help their curious offspring survive to adulthood, tales of malevolent water spirits are near-ubiquitous around the world. In Anglo-Celtic culture, if the kelpies didn’t get you, Jenny Greenteeth would. Australia’s Aborigines famously had the bunyip (even
Harry Palmer I recently came across a story that started me thinking about manhood and the way it appears to have changed over the past half century or so. The story included a video of a fully dressed man unhesitatingly dropping from a riverside wharf into a fast-flowing river in
