October 17, 2026

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With No Regard For Biological Realities, Australia’s National Sanity Is Broken

(Capital Territory, Australia) — Did you know Australia no longer has a biological definition of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ in federal law?

No wonder our nation is confused.

This isn’t an abstract legal glitch. It’s a cultural earthquake and we’re all living in the aftershocks. When the law deletes biological reality, it reflects something deeper: a nation rejecting God and rejecting truth.

Scripture is clear: God created humanity in His image; male and female. He designed our bodies with purpose, with complementarity, and with the ability to bring forth life. This isn’t a ‘Christian belief’; it’s a universal human and scientific reality.
Only a male and a female can create life. No amount of surgery, hormones, or legal word-games can change that.

But biological sex is inconvenient for a culture driven by desire instead of design. So the modern world fights God’s created order – fighting nature itself. The result? A fruitless imitation of what God intended for life and flourishing.

Two males cannot conceive a child.
Two females cannot conceive a child.
A ‘trans’ man cannot produce a sperm.
A ‘trans’ woman cannot produce egg.
Reality does not bend.

And yet the push continues. The Australian Law Reform Commission is now considering whether to loosen Australia’s ban on commercial surrogacy to make it easier for male couples to procure children. If a homosexual relationship cannot produce children, then surrogates must be made more accessible — even paid for.

This is the commodification of human life, and it is grotesque.

Australia is rewriting creation to satisfy the desires of adults – not the rights of children. And the root of this problem goes back further than many realise.

In 2013, then-Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus inserted ‘gender identity’ into the Sex Discrimination Act. This was an Act originally designed for females but suddenly, any man who identified as a “woman” received the same protections.

This legal fiction, that a male can be a “woman”, became a protected category.

The idea that biological sex doesn’t matter took root, and that idea now shapes everything.

The Tickle v Giggle case cemented this new legal definition. A male who identifies as a “woman” sued a female-only app for excluding him…and won. The court ruled that Tickle was disadvantaged relative to other females on the grounds of his trans identity. So much for protecting women.

In response to recent questioning by Senator Claire Chandler, Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Anna Cody, couldn’t even answer, “What is a biological male?” When our own Commissioner has no regard for biological realities, national sanity is broken.

Because of this legal falsehood, women are losing every protected space: bathrooms, changing rooms, prisons, sporting clubs, shelters, school camps, accommodation. Everywhere.

You see it now in every government form, census questions, health, education, workplaces, and public policy. It appears in rainbow-washed institutions insisting reproductive organs have nothing to do with sex.

“Pick your gender: male, female, non-binary, other.”

The fallout is truly devastating:

  • Children are being led into confusion, puberty blockers, sterilisation, and irreversible harm.
  • Women are being placed at risk by men in female-only spaces including in prisons and school camps.
  • Parents, teachers, and even principals are being punished for speaking biological truth.
  • In NSW, a mother was fined $95,000 for vilification for defending women’s sport.

Enough is enough. The Sex Discrimination Act must be restored to its original purpose: protect women – real women. This is where the deception stops, and truth begins. Christians must speak clearly, confidently, and unapologetically the Biblical truth of creation: “Male and female He created them.”

This truth is reality. This truth is the foundation of human life. And abandoning it is dangerous and wrong. Because the simplest truth remains the most profound: Male + Female = Life


‘They Want Us To Shut Our Mouths’: Large Banks Debanked, Discriminated Against Customers For Christian Views

Nine of the nation’s largest banks relied on subjective decision-making and the opinions of advocacy organizations to terminate customer accounts or deny service to potential customers—often because of Biblical beliefs on key moral issues—between 2020 and September 2025. The findings, released Wednesday, were part of a report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury that charters, regulates, and supervises banks and federal savings associations.

No More Excuses Or Theological Gymnastics: Christians Are Called To Love The Jewish People

I love all my brothers and sisters in Christ, but I’m wounded when I hear fellow believers dismiss or attack Israel and the Jewish people. The laundry list of excuses for this behavior includes many acrobatic contortions of Scripture that distance Christians from Jewish people. Antisemitic tropes also play a part in these condemnations. So does misinformation about the Jewish nation, as many Christians understand little of the State of Israel’s history of fighting for its life in defensive wars. They look at the nation’s activity in Gaza and Iran as an unforgivable sin because of the negative optics of military conflict, and they refuse to honor Scripture’s call to bless His Chosen People—even those who have never set foot in Israeli land.

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In A Culture Of Trendy Lies, It Is Time To Speak Up More Clearly In Support Of Israel And The Jewish People

We must remember our friends and our allies around the world—particularly Israel and the Jewish people, the one distinct ethnic group of people about which God tells us in His Word to bless and to support. In Genesis 12:3, what did God say to Abraham? “I will bless those who bless you.” Yet many people these days, including a lot of Christians, think that it is trendy, intellectual-sounding, or will garner clicks to oppose things all related to the Jews. Anti-Semitism is on the rise around the world. 2025 was designated by the Anti-Defamation League as the deadliest year of anti-Semitism. Three months after October 7th in 2023, anti-Semitism had risen 360%.

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(Capital Territory, Australia) — Did you know Australia no longer has a biological definition of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ in federal law?

No wonder our nation is confused.

This isn’t an abstract legal glitch. It’s a cultural earthquake and we’re all living in the aftershocks. When the law deletes biological reality, it reflects something deeper: a nation rejecting God and rejecting truth.

Scripture is clear: God created humanity in His image; male and female. He designed our bodies with purpose, with complementarity, and with the ability to bring forth life. This isn’t a ‘Christian belief’; it’s a universal human and scientific reality.
Only a male and a female can create life. No amount of surgery, hormones, or legal word-games can change that.

But biological sex is inconvenient for a culture driven by desire instead of design. So the modern world fights God’s created order – fighting nature itself. The result? A fruitless imitation of what God intended for life and flourishing.

Two males cannot conceive a child.
Two females cannot conceive a child.
A ‘trans’ man cannot produce a sperm.
A ‘trans’ woman cannot produce egg.
Reality does not bend.

And yet the push continues. The Australian Law Reform Commission is now considering whether to loosen Australia’s ban on commercial surrogacy to make it easier for male couples to procure children. If a homosexual relationship cannot produce children, then surrogates must be made more accessible — even paid for.

This is the commodification of human life, and it is grotesque.

Australia is rewriting creation to satisfy the desires of adults – not the rights of children. And the root of this problem goes back further than many realise.

In 2013, then-Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus inserted ‘gender identity’ into the Sex Discrimination Act. This was an Act originally designed for females but suddenly, any man who identified as a “woman” received the same protections.

This legal fiction, that a male can be a “woman”, became a protected category.

The idea that biological sex doesn’t matter took root, and that idea now shapes everything.

The Tickle v Giggle case cemented this new legal definition. A male who identifies as a “woman” sued a female-only app for excluding him…and won. The court ruled that Tickle was disadvantaged relative to other females on the grounds of his trans identity. So much for protecting women.

In response to recent questioning by Senator Claire Chandler, Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Anna Cody, couldn’t even answer, “What is a biological male?” When our own Commissioner has no regard for biological realities, national sanity is broken.

Because of this legal falsehood, women are losing every protected space: bathrooms, changing rooms, prisons, sporting clubs, shelters, school camps, accommodation. Everywhere.

You see it now in every government form, census questions, health, education, workplaces, and public policy. It appears in rainbow-washed institutions insisting reproductive organs have nothing to do with sex.

“Pick your gender: male, female, non-binary, other.”

The fallout is truly devastating:

  • Children are being led into confusion, puberty blockers, sterilisation, and irreversible harm.
  • Women are being placed at risk by men in female-only spaces including in prisons and school camps.
  • Parents, teachers, and even principals are being punished for speaking biological truth.
  • In NSW, a mother was fined $95,000 for vilification for defending women’s sport.

Enough is enough. The Sex Discrimination Act must be restored to its original purpose: protect women – real women. This is where the deception stops, and truth begins. Christians must speak clearly, confidently, and unapologetically the Biblical truth of creation: “Male and female He created them.”

This truth is reality. This truth is the foundation of human life. And abandoning it is dangerous and wrong. Because the simplest truth remains the most profound: Male + Female = Life


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‘They Want Us To Shut Our Mouths’: Large Banks Debanked, Discriminated Against Customers For Christian Views

Nine of the nation’s largest banks relied on subjective decision-making and the opinions of advocacy organizations to terminate customer accounts or deny service to potential customers—often because of Biblical beliefs on key moral issues—between 2020 and September 2025. The findings, released Wednesday, were part of a report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury that charters, regulates, and supervises banks and federal savings associations.

No More Excuses Or Theological Gymnastics: Christians Are Called To Love The Jewish People

I love all my brothers and sisters in Christ, but I’m wounded when I hear fellow believers dismiss or attack Israel and the Jewish people. The laundry list of excuses for this behavior includes many acrobatic contortions of Scripture that distance Christians from Jewish people. Antisemitic tropes also play a part in these condemnations. So does misinformation about the Jewish nation, as many Christians understand little of the State of Israel’s history of fighting for its life in defensive wars. They look at the nation’s activity in Gaza and Iran as an unforgivable sin because of the negative optics of military conflict, and they refuse to honor Scripture’s call to bless His Chosen People—even those who have never set foot in Israeli land.

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In A Culture Of Trendy Lies, It Is Time To Speak Up More Clearly In Support Of Israel And The Jewish People

We must remember our friends and our allies around the world—particularly Israel and the Jewish people, the one distinct ethnic group of people about which God tells us in His Word to bless and to support. In Genesis 12:3, what did God say to Abraham? “I will bless those who bless you.” Yet many people these days, including a lot of Christians, think that it is trendy, intellectual-sounding, or will garner clicks to oppose things all related to the Jews. Anti-Semitism is on the rise around the world. 2025 was designated by the Anti-Defamation League as the deadliest year of anti-Semitism. Three months after October 7th in 2023, anti-Semitism had risen 360%.

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YOU CARE ABOUT

BIBLICAL TRUTH.

SO DO WE.

 

Together, We Can Deliver A Biblical Understanding Of News Events Around The World And Equip The Church To Stand With A Biblical Worldview.