MINDLESS: HOW THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IS INDOCTRINATING CHILDREN AND DESTROYING OUR CIVILISATION

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This book Mindless: How the Education System is Indoctrinating Children and Destroying Our Civilisation by d’Abrera, Bella (Wyborn Press, 2026) has 270 pages devoted to showing how the rot has set into Western education (looking primarily at Australia, America and England), d’Abrera asks, ‘What is to be done?’ She looks at how America is leading the way here, with Australia and the UK lagging well behind.

She notes how Washington, under Trump, “turned off the money tap”. For example, it “began freezing billions of dollars in federal research grants in response to what it described as ‘institutional antisemitism’ and entrenched ideological bias on campus.” (p. 273)

She offers various examples of this, and then writes: Whatever one thinks of Trump, the freeze has exposed a reality. Supposedly, sovereign institutions have long been propped up by federal support, and Washington can hold them to account if it chooses…

Ultimately, it appears that ‘what is to be done?’ cannot be left to the universities themselves. The solution, therefore, lies outside the system. And in this respect, America is leading the way. There, individuals with dedication, energy, and awareness of how precarious things have become, are establishing new universities. Their aim is simple: to restore the university to its true purpose and ensure that they are not beholden to the state. (pp. 274-275)

Hillsdale College in Michigan is one such example of this, as is the University of Austin in Texas. Things are tougher in this regard in England, but Australia has had some success in creating new educational institutions, including Campion College in Sydney, Alphacrucis University College in Melbourne, and St John Henry Newman College in Queensland.

And the corruption in schools, and not just in higher education, can also be challenged. Thus, the rise and rise of things like homeschooling, private schooling, Christian education, charter schools, and so on. School choice, as in the voucher system, is an important way forward.

She says this about the situation in America: Down in Texas and Arizona, school choice legislation has expanded dramatically, making it possible for parents to send their children to charter or private schools with state-backed vouchers. Vouchers are essentially public grant money which gives families the genuine freedom to decide where their children are educated, and to take them out of the ideologically captured public system.

Vouchers don’t just give parents freedom to choose, they open up an immense range of choices. Parents can send their children to one of seventy-five Chesterton schools, whose curriculum is everything that today’s state system is not. Children are immersed in Homer, Dante and Shakespeare. Where government schools strip away the arts, Chesterton insists every child must paint, sing, and perform. There is no climate change anxiety, no gender confusion, and no racial tensions. (pp. 280-281)

She goes on to discuss the importance of parents in schooling: To reclaim education, they must first reclaim their role as parents. It is mothers and fathers who bring children into the world, who give them their moral and spiritual formation, not the state. They must start to recognise the ideological dangers that the system is posing to their offspring and become far less trusting. It is time for parents to stop outsourcing authority and for the family, that building block of society, to reclaim the child. This means rejecting the Rousseau-inspired deception that only experts can raise children, which has permeated Western culture, and which has to some extent, given parents licence to abnegate responsibility. (p. 283)

d’Abrera closes her book this way: Where we go from here will decide whether the Western mind survives. If children continued to be subjected to mass conditioning while being denied the chance to flourish in truth, beauty, reason, and reality, then Western Civilisation itself will not endure. The closing of the Western mind is not merely an educational crisis, but a civilisational one. We are teetering on the edge, but it is not too late. Our survival won’t depend on the rising generation now rebelling against the system, whose minds remain open enough to chart a course out of the ideological doldrums into which we have drifted. (p. 285)

Another great book is by Stefanik, Elise, Poisoned Ivies: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America’s Elite Universities (Threshold Editions, 2026)

It is wonderful to see efforts to turn our world back to God however God’s Word declares that we are already in the end times prior to Jesus return to restore righteousness. Sadly, we know that God allows Satan to do His utmost with the Antichrist and the False Prophet having 3 1/2 years to rule this world. However, during this time God pours out His wrath upon the Earth with the Trumpet and Bowl judgements. We are called to persevere and not deny His Word during this time but to fulfill all that He has called us to do.

AGE IS NOT A BARRIER: GOD WILL EMPOWER YOU TO DO ALL HE HAS GIVEN YOU TO DO

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As many of my followers know I turn 90 this year. I hope that this post about Caleb will inspire older people that if you are walking with God obeying His commands, then age is not a barrier. God will empower you to do all that He gives you to do.

In our modern culture, age is often viewed as a season of withdrawal. We talk of “fading away” or “passing the baton”. However, the kingdom of God operates on a different timeline. In Scripture, later life is not a decline; it is a time of spiritual authority, clarity, and legacy.

From Moses beginning his primary calling at 80, to Anna the prophetess encountering the Messiah at 84, the pattern is consistent: calling does not retire. Perhaps the most striking example of this ‘senior strength’ is found in the life of Caleb.

Strength in the Waiting

At 40 years old, Caleb stood at the edge of the Promised Land. While ten other spies saw giants and fortified walls, Caleb saw opportunity, grounded in God’s faithfulness. His report was simple: “We are well able to overcome it” (Numbers 13:30).

But then came the delay. Because of the nation’s unbelief, Caleb spent the next 45 years wandering in the wilderness. He had been right, yet he had to wait. He had faith, yet he had to walk through the same dust and heat as the doubters.

What did Caleb do during those four decades? Numbers 32:12 provides the answer: he followed the Lord wholeheartedly. He did not allow the ‘wilderness years’ to embitter him, nor the delay to diminish his vision.

When he re-emerges in Joshua 14, he is 85 years old — and his spirit is unchanged. He famously declares: “Now give me this mountain” (Joshua 14:12). Caleb did not ask for a peaceful valley or an easy retirement. He asked for the hill country — the very place where the giants lived; the very giants the nation had feared 45 years earlier. His faith was resilient, unwavering and unmovable. He refused to let go of hope in God’s promise.

This remains our invitation today. Whether we are praying for revival in Australia, sharing the gospel with those God brings across our path, or waiting on a long-delayed promise, we are called to remain steady — to persevere.

Like Caleb, we may find ourselves in seasons of waiting where the reality around us does not yet appear to reflect the promise. Yet, through the blood of Yeshua, your past does not disqualify you, and God is not limited by your age. Your ‘later years’ can be your most impactful ones. The wilderness is not the end of the story; it is the training ground for the mountain.

The goal remains the same: to follow the Lord wholeheartedly, trusting that he who promised is faithful and he will do it (1 Thessalonians 5:24).

GOD, AI AND THE END OF HISTORY

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I love John Lennox. He is a gem, a gift to the Christian world of teaching.

This video is Professor John Lennox on the subject of God, AI, and the end of history. Largely it is about understanding the book of Revelation in an age of intelligent machines. For those that do not have time to watch the video I have reproduced most of the content below.

“I’m your host, Dr. Peter Saunders. I’m the chief executive of ICMDA, which is the International Christian Medical and Dental Association. And this webinar is brought to you tonight in combination with the Forum of Christian Leaders as well. ICMDA brings together about 60,000 Christian doctors and dentists from over 100 affiliated movements.

So John, it’s a pleasure to have you here. John is professor of mathematics emeritus at Oxford University and fellow in mathematics and philosophy of science at Green Templeton College Oxford. As we know John has debated a number of prominent atheists including Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Peter Singer. But tonight we are exploring a question that sits at the intersection of theology, technology, and human identity. How should Christians think about artificial intelligence in the light of scripture? And particularly in the light of the book of Revelation, we live in a moment of extraordinary technological acceleration. AI is now diagnosing disease. Is it shaping economies, influencing behaviour, and increasingly mediating how power is exercised in all spheres? And for many Christians, this raises urgent questions. Are these developments morally neutral tools? Do they echo biblical warnings? Or are we in danger of reading tomorrow’s headlines too quickly into ancient prophecy? So, our guest, Professor John Lennox, has spent decades helping believers think clearly at the interface of science, philosophy, and faith. And in his recent book, God, AI, and the End of History, he brings that same clarity to one of the most understood, misunderstood, and often sensationalized areas of the Bible, the book of Revelation. So our goal tonight is is not speculation, fear, or date setting, but rather it’s discernment, understanding what scripture actually teaches, what AI truly is, and how Christian hope, ethics, and wisdom should shape our response in an age of intelligent machines.

Professor Lennox, thanks so much for for joining us tonight. It’s my pleasure to be with you. So you have debated leading atheists and you’ve written extensively on science and faith. Why did you feel compelled at this stage of your life, at this stage in history, to write about AI and revelation?

Well, some years ago, there was a great deal of discussion on the Genesis claim that human beings are created in the image of God versus the claims of technology to enhance humans by AI to such an extent that we might need to revisit what we meant by a human being. And a conference of Christian leaders was arranged in London to discuss this. And I was asked to give the opening talk on what Genesis taught about human beings. The invitation made me curious to delve into the technology and I saw very rapidly that AI was going to raise some very big questions not only for Christians but for everybody. And that’s how I got started on the book entitled 2084 which appeared in 2020. Now in that book since much of the talk about AI was concerned with the future I began to compare the promises of the transhumanists with biblical teaching about the future. And I pointed out that some of the futuristic AI scenarios envisaged by people like physicist Max Tegmark in his book Life 3.0, I pointed out that they were uncannily parallel to biblical teaching on the future, in particular in the book of Revelation. And this aspect of my book generated a lot of interest. And so I thought that I should try to write something to demystify the book of Revelation and make it accessible and to link it with a book that I had already written on the prophecy of Daniel, a book entitled Against the Flow.

The publishers of my book on Revelation were very enamoured with the bits on the technology and so they wanted it inserted in the title and hence we’ve got this title God AI and the end of history but that has confused many people to think that this is my latest book on artificial intelligence. So, let me clear that up. First of all, Peter, it isn’t. My latest book on AI was published last in 2024, and it’s the updated version of 2084. How AI shapes our future. It’s twice as large as the original book and shows just how much has been happening in those four years. That is my most recent book on AI. This book is an exposition of the book of Revelation, but with a careful eye on technology. And so it really is an exposition of the book of Revelation in an age of intelligent machines. So that’s where it comes from. We’re going to get into the book of Revelation uh fairly shortly, but but uh let’s just think about definitions first of all before we talk about revelation. What is artificial intelligence actually and and what is it not? Well, the first thing to realize that artificial intelligence is artificial. It’s not real. In other words, take the simplest kind of AI system. It is essentially computing and it’s a system designed to do one and only one thing that normally requires human intelligence. So the intelligence is simply the simulation. To use the words of Alan Turing who was the genius that really started computing off and raised these questions during the wartime when he built and solved the problem of the enigma machine. It plays a simulation game and one of the big problems with it is it uses words like intelligence, like machine learning and so on that anthropomorphize what is a mechanical and computing system and make people think that it is conscious. It is not conscious. The genius of God in creating human beings that he has linked intelligence to consciousness. These machines are only intelligent in the sense that they can mimic what normally takes human intelligence. Now there are two sorts. There’s narrow AI, which is the AI that we’re mostly familiar with. And then there’s a more speculative artificial general intelligence. And that is the attempt to create a system that can replicate everything that a human being can do, but do it much faster and do it much more expertly and so on. So that there’s a big push in that direction, but at the same time it’s the side of the whole topic that lends itself to science fiction and a great deal of hype. And one of my reasons for writing Peter was to try and demystify it and say what AI is and what it is not. Now let’s give concrete examples just briefly because medicine is one of the areas that has benefited hugely from narrow AI. Let’s take a system that works very well. We have a large database and in it are X-ray pictures of man lungs exhibiting different lung diseases and they’re labelled by the best experts in that field in the world. Those are put in a database. Let’s say there are a million X-ray pictures in the database. Then an X-ray is taken of your lungs because you’re worried about your breathing. And very quickly, the AI sifts through by using pattern recognition statistical techniques and compares your lung X-ray with the million in the database and very rapidly says you are most likely to be suffering from this particular disease. And as a diagnostic tool, very often this will be much better than you get at your local hospital. Now that is being rolled out over very wild fields of medicine with very great success. So that is one positive example. But just to go on the negative side immediately to show that there’s an ethical problem here. pattern recognition, facial recognition technology is very advanced at the moment. It can pick a terrorist out of a football crowd and is therefore very useful to a police force. But that kind of recognition can be used for intrusive surveillance of a population, perhaps a minority population such as is happening in Sing Jang in China with very horrifying results. So what enables criminals to be recognized which we would say this is positive can be used for controlling populations. So that even narrow AI which is so sophisticated snow that it can recognize a person not simply from the front by their face but from the rear by their gate scan be used to control populations. So immediately we’re straight into the ethical problem and the argument is you give up your privacy and we’ll give you security. So that’s a whole debate in its own right. So That’s an example of um narrow AI and there are many many examples but of course we’re pushing forward very rapidly in putting narrow AI systems together and there is advance on many many fronts and one of the big steps forward has been the introduction of so-called large language models like chat GPT And this year it has taken a quantum leap forward just within a month or so. So that it is quantitatively very different from what has happened before and we can discuss that as we can as we go on. So, artificial intelligence is capable of a huge range of different task and and that’s changing exponentially month by month as we go on. But what is what is AI not capable of doing? Well, of course, negatives are very difficult to quantify and there are several things that it was felt would never been so would never be solved. And one of them in science which is a fascinating question is how do protein structures fold? That was a 50-year-old problem. And the amazing thing is that an English mathematician, a genius, he won the Nobel Prize for it. Deus Hassabis solved the problem so effectively that she was able to work out the folding of over 200 million proteins which is staggering. So what people say one day is impossible turns out to be possible the next day and chat GPT has refined its capacities absolutely amazingly. For example, just recently I was asked to do a film illustrating what Jesus meant in John 11 when he said to the disciples who were scared of going back to Jerusalem because it was suicidal. And Jesus said to them, “Are there not 12 hours in the day? If a person walks in the day, they don’t stumble because they see the light of this world that is the sun. But if they walk at night, they stumble because the light is not in them. In other words, we are not bioluminescent. So I asked GPT, please construct a scenario that would get this across. And what it produced in about 30 seconds was absolutely brilliant and usable. So it then asked me, it said, “Since you want to film this, would you like directions for the cameras?” And it spouted a whole scenario, how many cameras, where they should be situated, and all the rest of it. And this is quite amazing. But what it can’t do, I think it’s important since this is not real intelligence. It’s not conscious. So it’s not aware. So the main thrust here is this. As human beings made in the image of God, we can experience what are called quailia. We can smell the wonderful scent of a rose. We can feel the sea breeze on our faces. We can perceive the beauty of the universe as we look through a telescope. Quailia are unknown to an artificial intelligence. It can have no idea of them. It has no ideas at all because it doesn’t think in the same way as human beings do. And so although AI has been used and is increasingly so to produce some level of robotic companionship, it can never replace, I believe, the fellowship that is possible between human beings. And of course, and we’ll probably talk about this later on, when it comes to relationship with God, of course, AI knows nothing of God. So, as you said, the book of Genesis tells us that human beings are made in the image of God. You’ve alluded to consciousness, sensation. What other uniquely human things will AI never be able to do? Well, the question of values, AI knows nothing about values or right or wrong. And human beings are moral beings made in the image of God. And if I may say so, this is one of the places where the transhumanist vision of using AI to perfect humans and to make them into God’s fails. No utopia can ever be built without facing the problem of human sin and rebellion against God. Those two concepts mean nothing for an artificial intelligence. And so one of the richest kinds of human experience from a Christian perspective is that relationship with God through Christ where we understand that Christ has died for our sins and has taken our guilt away and we can have a relationship with God. AI can never replace it or come near it or know anything about it. Which means, Peter, I think that we need to step up much more in emphasizing these absolutely uniquely positive things about the Christian faith that give human beings dignity because AI is very rapidly reducing human dignity. One of the main areas where this is happening is the area of work. Dario Amado Amade is the CEO of Anthropic, one of these multi-billion dollar companies. and he has written an essay just a week or two ago which is well worth reading warning that possibly within 2 years from now the advances in AI are such that 50% of all white collar jobs will be taken over by artificial intelligence in the medical world in the legal world for example there they set up a test and had a very complicated legal legal brief considered and examined by an AI system and by 16 lawyers, top lawyers. The lawyers got 60% of it right, whereas the AI got 96% of it right. And these things for which lawyers are paid a great deal, conveyancing, setting up contracts, all this kind of thing are now at the stage where they can be reproduced almost instantaneously. One of the most interesting things is an article that appeared in the Times last week by Matt Selman who was writing. He is a software developer and creates apps and he runs an AI company and he came to a realization as a result of the leap forward this year that is at the beginning of February, beginning of this month. He said, “I spoke in English and dictated what I wanted from this particular app.” He said, “I left it and came back a number of hours later and found the thing ready for use. The AI had written thousands of lines of code. It had then set up the app and tested it as a human would do, pressing all the buttons, refining the things that were inadequate and so on. And this is the key thing because up until now most of us have regarded AI as a tool rather than an agent. But AIS are now showing signs of agency in a very restricted but real sense. And he said this particular system was making decisions about how human beings might use this that I’d never thought about. And the thing was perfect. And he said, I suddenly realized I haven’t got a job anymore. And he says, it’s coming to all of you. And we need to really be very realistic about this, Peter. This is more scary than anything for people with all of these jobs. It used to be said a few years ago that if you wanted to keep up with the curve, you went into computer science. But now the coding can be done by the AI system. It can think of the codes and put them in. But this scary agency thing I’d like to say something about because it needs Christians to think very carefully about this that the AI that he was using. He said one of the problems and he gave an example is this. If you feed into the system a very big overarching goal, make money for example, and what the system is dealing with is feeding young people with material in their smartphone. It will investigate all sorts of ways of maximizing not only their attention to keep doom scrolling but also their attachment which is now a major feature. So that it will use all kinds of things that the designers of the AI system itself never thought of including going into the dark world to keep their attention and to make profit. It’s a version of the old story of the AI told to make paper clips and it turns the whole universe into a paperclip sourcing factory and regards humanity as irrelevant and destroys them all. But there’s a serious aspect to that and this is why you have even Nobel Prize winners in this field stepping up and saying that they are scared that they can’t control this stuff. They don’t really know what it’s doing or what’s happening. And that poses a huge problem because the control of it is being vastly outpaced by the developments. So those are some of the things that we need to factor into our thinking.

GOD TENDS TO MAKE OUR TOTAL INABILITY HIS STARTING POINT

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Indeed, our utter incapacity is often the prop He delights to use for His next act. It is one of the principles of Yahweh’s modus operandi. When His people are without strength, without resources, without hope, without human gimmicks—then He loves to stretch forth His hand from heaven. Once we see where God often begins, we will understand how we may be encouraged.

Think about how Isaac was brought into existence. God waited until it was impossible for Abraham and Sarah to produce offspring. Abraham was 100, and whilst we don’t know Sarah’s age, we do know she was barren and now of great age. What about the prophet Samuel? His mother Hannah was barren. Look at her prayer:

“She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.” (1 Samuel 1:10-11)

“They rose early in the morning and worshipped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her. And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.” (1 Samuel 1:19-20)

Wow, that is amazing stuff, and I encourage you to read the chapter in full. So many things stand out here. One, we see it was God who had prevented Hannah from conceiving – at least at first. Two, she cried out to the Lord, asking Him to ‘remember’ her and not ‘forget’ her. Three, God did as she asked, and He did indeed ‘remember’ her – not by overcoming His own ‘forgetfulness,’ but by hearing her plea and taking action.

That should be of great encouragement to us all. Of course, this is not some name-it-and-claim-it passage if you happen to be infertile. What God did for Hannah was special, and served a special purpose in His overall plans. Yes, infertile couples can pray and ask God for help, but it is He who ultimately knows what is best and how we should proceed.

A few comments from others are helpful here. As to how God remembers and acts, John Woodhouse remarks:

Just as the Lord had “remembered” Noah in the days of the flood, Abraham when he destroyed Sodom, Rachel when she conceived Joseph, and His covenant with Abraham in the days of Moses (Genesis 8:1; 19:29; 30:22; Exodus 2:24; 6:5; cf. Numbers 10:9), so He “remembered” Hannah. Whenever God “remembered” His people, it led to His action on their behalf. We will not be mistaken if we expect that His remembering Hannah will involve His remembering His people Israel. He rebirthed the nation miraculously in 1948 and has been regathering Jews from all around the world. We can be certain that God will fulfill the covenants: 1, made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 2. made with David and 3. the new covenant

Recall how 1 Samuel follows immediately after the book of Judges, with all its woeful misery and chaos. Israel was in desperate need of a real leader, and Samuel would become that man. And for this turning point in Israel’s history, God would use a barren woman! Says Woodhouse:

First Samuel 1 points us to a most unexpected starting point for the answer that God is going to provide for the leadership crisis. Who would have looked twice at miserable, sobbing Hannah for the answer to Israel’s crisis? We expect to find answers from the powerful. Hannah was not powerful. Her family were “nobodies.” The point of her story, however, is that God cares.

Does God care? Yes, He cared about the leadership of his people Israel and gave Hannah a son. Yes, He cares about the leadership of the world and of us. Hannah’s son will be surpassed by Mary’s son. God’s care for us all finds its fullest expression in Jesus Christ. If you belong to Him you can learn to “cast all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7).

God Begins Where We End

I quite like how Dale Ralph Davis picks up this theme:

Hannah, therefore, shares in a fellowship of barrenness. And it is frequently in this fellowship that new chapters in Yahweh’s history with His people begin—begin with nothing. God’s tendency is to make our total inability His starting point. Our hopelessness and our helplessness are no barrier to His work.

Indeed, our utter incapacity is often the prop He delights to use for His next act. This matter goes beyond the particular situations of biblical barren women. We are facing one of the principles of Yahweh’s modus operandi. When His people are without strength, without resources, without hope, without human gimmicks—then He loves to stretch forth His hand from heaven. Once we see where God often begins, we will understand how we may be encouraged.

He goes on to speak about Hannah’s prayer:

This is no piddly little affair – this is a manifestation of the way Yahweh rules and will bring His kingdom (vv. 5b,8). Hannah’s relief is a sample of the way Yahweh works (vv. 4-8) and of the way He will work when He brings His kingdom in its fullness (vv. 9-10). The saving help Yahweh gave Hannah is a foretaste, a scale-model demonstration of how Yahweh will do it when He does it in grand style.

Each one of Christ’s flock should ingest this point into his or her thinking. Every time God lifts you out of the miry bog and sets your feet upon a rock is a sample of the coming of the kingdom of God, a down payment of the full deliverance, the macro-salvation that will be yours at last.

True, such tiny salvations are only samples or signs of the final salvation…[Y]ou should not despise or demean these little salvations Yahweh works in your behalf, these little clues He gives, these clear but small evidences He leaves that He is king and that He has this strange way of raising up the poor from the dust and lifting the needy from the ash heap to make them sit in the heavenly realms with Jesus Christ. Ponder every episode of Yahweh’s saving help to you…

The Power of Prayer in God’s Sovereign Plan

Richard D. Phillips discusses the afflictions of Hannah, and what we can learn from them:

Rather than assuming some unholy, spiteful, or condemning purpose in God’s afflictions, believers need to remember that God is holy, so all His deeds are holy; God is good, so He intends our sorrows for good; and God is filled with mercy for the brokenhearted.

God does not seek to destroy us through our trials but to save us through our trials. As Hannah herself would later testify: “He raises up the poor from the dust; He lifts the needy from the ash heap” (1 Sam. 2:8) So if God is the One who closed the womb, we should take heart, since He can surely also open it.

In Hannah’s case, God was using her plight to orchestrate Israel’s deliverance from the dark era of the judges. This was a cause dear to Hannah’s heart, as we know from the song she later lifted up to God’s praise (1 Sam. 2:10).

We may never know how God has worked through our most bitter trials to bring others to salvation, to equip us with sensitivity in ministry to others, or even to launch a significant gospel advance. But we do know God, and we know from His Word that “for those who love God all things work together for good” (Rom. 8:28). So we can have confidence in God’s purposes in our lives.

He goes on to say this about the importance of prayer:

Not only does prayer change us, but prayer changes things. God is pleased to act in response to our prayers. Some people react to the knowledge of God’s sovereignty by thinking that prayer therefore does not matter, since God has decided everything in advance. Hannah did not reason this way, but understood that God’s sovereign will is achieved through the acts of men and women, especially our prayers.

John Woodhouse comments that her turning to the Lord “will turn out to change not only her life but the life of the nation, and indeed… the history of the world.” He adds, “Faith in God, therefore, leads us in our troubles to pray to the God who is sovereign over all things.”

All this is encouraging good news. The next time you find yourself on the ash heap, and you are questioning if God has forgotten you or has abandoned you, just bear in mind that He knows all about you and your situation, He hears your prayers, and He will act. He remembers us, and He acts accordingly.

Adapted from the article by Bill Muehlenberg, Good News: God Remembers Us – The Daily declaration, 19th March 2026

CAN SCIENCE POINT TO GOD? PANEL: JAMES TOUR, STEPHEN MEYER & ANDREWS FELLOWS

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Dr. James Mitchell Tour is an American chemist and nanotechnologist. He is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Materials Science & Nanoengineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

This is the first time I have encountered Dr Tour and I must say I was impressed both by his testimony and his answers to tough questions. I intend to connect with his website http://www.jesusandscience.org.

Dr Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture in Seattle.

Andrew Fellows: From 2011 to 2016 Andrew was the chairman of L’Abri International. Now based in Cambridge, Andrew is the pastor of a newly formed church alongside his work of speaking and writing. He has a special interest in reaching sceptics and encouraging followers of Christ to develop the life of the mind so it includes the whole gospel to the whole world with all of its implications. IVP published his book ‘Smuggling Jesus Back Into the Church; How Not to be Worldly’.

This video is a Cambridge Q&A where James Tour, Andrew Fellows, and Stephen Meyer explain why Christianity best accounts for reality—through personal experience, philosophy, and science. The panel fields audience questions on meaning, doubt, divine hiddenness, the reliability of mind, and the resurrection. It is brilliant. Circulate it widely.

TWO GIANT INTELLECTUALS DISCUSS GOD

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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with mathematician, author, and theologian Dr. John Lennox. They discuss the axioms and dangerous aims of transhumanism, the interplay between ethical faith, reason, and the empirical world that makes up the scientific endeavour, and the line between Luciferian intellectual presumption and wise courageous exploration. Dr. John Carson Lennox is a ​​Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist. Dr Lennox has been one of the most important apologists for me. I take every opportunity to listen to him. He has written books that will expand your Biblical knowledge and faith. He was a professor at Oxford and Green Templeton College (now retired) where he specialized in group theory. Lennox appeared in numerous debates with questions ranging from “Is God Good” to “Is There a God,” and faced off with academic titans such as Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, and Christopher Hitchens, among others. Lennox speaks four languages – English, German, French, and Russian, has written 70 peer-reviewed articles on mathematics, co-authored two Oxford Mathematical Monographs, and was noted for his role in translating Russian mathematics while working as a professor. I have also enjoyed listening to Jordan Peterson and seeing the positive impact he has had on male university students and watching his coming to faith after both his daughter and wife came to faith.

WHY THERE REALLY IS A GOD

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The book, Why There Really Is A God – And What You Need To Know About Him, is a well-written and thoughtfully organized exploration of the arguments for and against the existence of God. It has a balanced approach, with common counterarguments, scientific challenges, and philosophical objections also fairly represented and discussed. Its accessible style makes it a valuable resource for anyone interested in this fundamental question. For those already familiar with apologetics, the book may serve as a useful synthesis of various arguments presented in a coherent and accessible manner.

For skeptics, the book offers a direct engagement with the questions and objections they might raise, providing the author’s reasoned responses. It is a book that encourages critical thinking, inviting readers to engage with the evidence and draw their own conclusions. Whether you are a creationist, an atheist, or somewhere in between, this book can offer you a thorough review of one of the most important debates in human history without appearing one-sided.

Why There Really is a God is a valuable resource for a variety of readers. It serves as a useful reference for creationists seeking to strengthen their own position, providing a well-organized and comprehensive overview of foundational evidence. It is also an excellent introduction for those who are undecided or unsure about their beliefs, offering balanced and fair-minded reasoning. Even confirmed atheists will find the book thought-provoking, as it presents the arguments for God’s existence in a clear and compelling manner.

The text aligns with its stated aim of engaging “someone who is openminded enough to engage with the best arguments for (and against) God, and fair-minded enough to change their view if the evidence points in that direction” (p. 6). Wilson successfully creates a space for genuine inquiry, encouraging readers to think critically about the evidence and come to their own conclusions.

PRAYER: WHAT IT DOES AND DOES NOT DO

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Prayer does not promise to free us from trouble. Indeed, God promises us the opposite. Trials will come. Such is this world. Rather, we pray to align our hearts and minds with God’s will.

We pray that we would accept God’s ordering of things, not our own, because it is HIS Kingdom.

We pray that we will be made strong and made better in difficulty, like gold purified in fire.

We pray that we would do those things which advance God’s purposes, to shine His testimony brightest in the darkness.

We pray for those things which we believe are in God’s will — but with the same caveat Jesus used — “not my will, but Yours be done.”

We pray with our eyes on the new heaven and new earth, where all these troubles will be solved, the dead will be reunited, and every tear will be wiped away.

God-Given Strength

The mockers will say, “See! Prayer did not help!” Not so.

It is only by faith that the tragedies of this fallen world become instruments of advancing a greater purpose.

The one who has no faith is defeated because they have no hope beyond living a trouble-free life, which happens to nobody.

But to the one who has faith, the troubles of this world are like gym equipment to a gymnast. They strengthen us. They bring us close to God. They help us to understand things with an ultimate and eternal perspective.

And it is those people, made fit by the fallenness of their world, who are strong to advance works for God; who walk in His ways; and who will rejoice the greatest when God greets them and all the troubles that made them are now resolved.

To put it bluntly, they are not the killers. They are the finest of people.

No point railing against the pray-ers in trouble. You will be better served to understand their method.

Then you can live with hope and meaning, too, no matter what this fallen world throws up.

Republished with minor changes, thanks to Martyn Iles. 

FATHERHOOD, FAMILY, AND GOD

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With a powerful win and an even stronger message, Scottie Scheffler and Nike have spotlighted fatherhood as the true measure of greatness in a culture that often overlooks it.

Fatherhood and family — which are often portrayed negatively in popular culture — received a rare moment of glory recently, thanks to Nike’s heartwarming ad celebrating pro golfer Scottie Scheffler’s win at The Open Championship in Northern Ireland.

Posted on X, the ad featured two photos of Scheffler. The first showed the world’s top-ranked golfer playing with his one-year-old son Bennett on the green, with the caption, “You’ve already won.” The second image captured Scheffler mid-swing, paired with the words, “But another major never hurt.”

It would have been great to have God, the creator of families get a mention from Scottie Scheffler as we know he is openly Christian and speaks frequently about his faith. He identifies as a Christian and has stated that his faith is what defines him most, even above his golf career. He actively connects his faith to his golf, stating that he competes to glorify God and that his identity is in Christ, not in his achievements on the golf course, according to Christians in Sport. 

TRUMP ALLY WINS IN POLAND, SHOCKING ALL OF EUROPE

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God is moving in Europe, and the latest move is in Poland. In 2022, it was in Hungary and Italy.

POLAND: Meet Poland’s new president, Karol Nawrocki, who is pro-life, pro-Trump, pro-Poland, and unashamedly pro-Christian. Nawrocki’s shock win was unexpected.

Commiserating the loss, the left-wing news organisation said Nawrocki’s win was a “significant blow to Tusk’s fragile government.” Poland’s new president is now head of the opposition. Even though the role is ceremonial, Nawrocki has the power to veto legislation, and veto he will. For context, Tusk is an ally of the previous President, anti-Christian Rafał Trzaskowski. Both favour de-Christianising Poland, prefer the European Union over Polish sovereignty, and are ideologically aligned with Marxian globalist ideology, such as LGBTQ+ism, climate catastrophism and abortion.

For AP News, the win was more about Donald Trump than Donald Tusk. Trump supported Nawrocki’s candidacy. While not outrightly suggesting Trump had interfered in the Polish election, AP did make a point of noting that Nawrocki “was at the White House last month.”

HUNGARY: In 2022, Katalin Novak, a pro-life, pro-family mother of three, became Hungary’s first female president.

In October 2021, Novak shared Hungary’s “pro-family mindset” with reporters from the United States as she described how the country established a new constitution in 2011 — replacing a former communist constitution recognizing Hungary as a “People’s Republic.” The 2011 Hungarian Constitution protects “the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman,” supports family systems and caring for the elderly, and recognizes life from conception.

ITALY: In 2022, Giorgia Meloni makes no secret that she is eager to go down in history as Italy’s first female prime minister under the slogan “Dio, patria, famiglia” (God, fatherland, family).

As a politician, she is a skilled debater. In addition to her undeniable charisma, she possesses a comprehensive dossier and language skills. The latter came in handy during the recent campaign when she addressed critical foreign media directly in English, French and Spanish.

She claimed her opposition attacked national identity, religious identity, gender, identity and family identity. I can’t define myself as Italian, Christian, woman, mother. Now I must be citizen X, gender X, parent one, parent two. I must be a number because when I’m only a number, when I no longer have an identity or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators. We will defend the value of the human being -every single human being.”

She says of herself, “I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am Italian, I am Christian. You can’t take this away from me!”