Forum 2025 speakers Dr Miriam Grossman / Israel & Maria Folau

Forum 2025 speakers Dr Miriam Grossman / Israel & Maria Folau

The Forum on the Family is coming up in August (Thursday 28th Friday 29th August) at the Due Drops Event Centre in Manukau City. This conference will bring together a national network of family-focused organisations, scholars, church & community leaders and individuals who are social conservatives. You are invited! The theme of this year’s forum is “Courage at a Cultural Tipping Point”, and we have an amazing line-up of brave speakers on key social issues from the US, Canada, Australia and NZ. And in this episode of McBlog, we talk to Dr Miriam Grossman and hear a short message from Israel & Maria Folau.

McBlog-Forum 2025 speakers Dawn Hawkins Kirralie Smith

Forum 2025 speakers Dawn Hawkins / Kirralie Smith

The Forum on the Family is coming up in August (Thursday 28th Friday 29th August) at the Due Drops Event Centre in Manukau City. This conference will bring together a national network of family-focused organisations, scholars, church & community leaders and individuals who are social conservatives. You are invited! The theme of this year’s forum is “Courage at a Cultural Tipping Point”, and we have an amazing line-up of brave speakers on key social issues from the US, Canada, Australia and NZ. And in this episode of McBlog, we talk to Dawn Hawkins from the US and Kirralie Smith from Australia.

What's Up With ADHD

What’s Up With ADHD

Everyone seems to be talking about ADHD at the moment – and how we need more diagnoses and more medication, and how the prevalence has significantly increased over the last 1-2 decades. But is ADHD increasing – and are we asking the right questions about how we recognise and treat it. One major international news outlet recently asked that exact question.

US Conservatives Are On A Roll

US Conservatives Are On A Roll

Conservatives in the US just can’t stop winning at the moment – age verification for porn sites, parental rights in schools, warning labels on social media, defunding abortionists Planned Parenthood, 3-year anniversary of overturning Roe v Wade, and there’s even significant pushback on the ‘same-sex marriage’ issue. We speak to our US correspondent.

'Queer Is Here'- Lucky They Told Us!

‘Queer Is Here’- Lucky They Told Us!

State broadcaster TVNZ & Maori TV are being propped up financially by taxpayer-funded NZ On Air to produce programmes to remind you that LGBTQIA+++ is here. Because, apparently, nobody knew! We check out one of the episodes on “The church & the rainbow community”. There’s a couple of really really interesting bits in it – and some very creative theology and even some historical revisionism.