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Indoctrinating Our Toddlers

Indoctrinating Our Toddlers

Public, state-provided education is relatively recent, not even 200 years old. Prior to state education, parents were the primary educators of their children. In addition to teaching children the basics, they could also pass on deeply-held values and beliefs..

  • Footplate Padre on the Danger of Assumptions

    Footplate Padre, Baptist minister of 32 years Mark Tronson, recounts a story in his 1991 book \'Railway Drama\' that came from New South Wales Government Railways driver Wal Schuemaker. The anecdote detailed an event that occurred at Werris Creek, the railway community just south of Tamworth, where the northern lines diverged.

  • Is it Ever Right to Rebuke? The Cases of Rick Warren and Notre Dame

    Living the Christian life is often a balancing act. It is easy to get into unhelpful extremes, and seeking to find the biblical balance is often a difficult job. Take for example the issue of public censure. On the one hand, Christians are to strive for unity and edification. On the other hand, we are instructed to at times publically rebuke wayward brothers.

  • BHO and Dhimmitude

    Barack Hussein Obama promised us he would take a different approach to Islam and the Middle East. That he has certainly done. There is a name for it - it is called dhimmitude. On his recent overseas trip he has made it clear that national self-loathing and grovelling to Islam will now be basic elements of American foreign policy.

  • Those Post Resurrection '40 Days' ?

    Baptist minister of 32 years and cricket chaplain of 25, Mark Tronson, has been investigating the reality of those 40 days between Jesus\' Resurrection and the Day of Pentecost as this was a dramatic period of \'instruction\'.

  • ABC Highlights Christian Outreach Story

    The ABC\'s new project \'The Making of Modern Australia\' was initiated late last month as an On-Line project to record ordinary Australians' stories since 1945. Well-Being Australia chairman, Mark Tronson has submitted a story detailing how Australia\'s sports chaplaincy was pioneered which was approved for the section entitled \'Religious / Faith\'.

  • More Artistic License, More Christ-Bashing

    You can always tell when it is Easter – or some other important date on the Christian calendar: along comes some self-obsessed and self-important "artist", presenting yet another attack on Christ and Christianity. These guys really should try to think of something new.

  • Easy Sin and Faith Challenged

    Recently, Mark Tronson who is Well-Being Australia chairman, and has been a Baptist minister for 32 years and cricket chaplain for 25, had another pleasant trip to the United States of America.

  • Archbishop Peter Jensen Easter Message 2009

    The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, has described Australians as 'short on hope' because of the global recession, but says the message of Jesus at Easter brings 'real hope'.

  • Governments Sexualising Our Children

    We can understand the sex industry and porn lobby attempting to target our kids and push their sleazy agenda on them. But when the government gets into this business, using our tax dollars to do so, then we must be especially concerned.

  • Greg Chappell, Australia's Coach of Influence

    Greg Chappell, the former Australian cricket captain and a member of cricket\'s Hall of Fame, is the new Head Coach of the Australian Institute of Sport\'s Cricket Centre of Excellence in Brisbane. Greg and assistant coach, Brian McFadyen, graciously accepted a cap each from Nelson Cook's \'Coaches of Influence\' (COIN).

  • When Children Go Berserk

    The media today is abuzz with the shocking case of yet more child-on-child violence in the UK. Reminiscent of the James Bulger case, two schoolboys aged 9 and 11 were viscously assaulted and tortured by another pair of boys the same age.