Bill Muehlenberg

Bill Muehlenberg teaches ethics, apologetics and theology at several Melbourne Bible Colleges. His independent blog, Culture Watch, has over 5,000 articles commenting on the major cultural, social and political issues of the day.

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Speaking truth to power – keeping government in check

Speaking truth to power – keeping government in check

A government without accountability or checks and balances is not a proper government but a tyranny. In a fallen world, having limited and small government is a basic necessity, given how much power corrupts. This is why the American Founding Fathers, for example, put...

Grooming gangs, multiculturalism and barbarous Britain

Grooming gangs, multiculturalism and barbarous Britain

The horrific grooming gang crimes in Britain are now thankfully, back in the news, without being swept under the carpet and covered up. Indeed, international figures have been speaking out on this and we still hope to fully and properly get this dealt with. Too good...

Will you be a real counterculturalist?

Will you be a real counterculturalist?

There is a place for the right kind of rebellion, resistance and nonconformity.The 60s and 70s were a time of radical social and political turmoil and upheaval. This was the time when the hippy movement, the ‘peace and love’ generation, and the New Left erupted in...

Trump and Vance on a pro-life roll

Trump and Vance on a pro-life roll

The right to life is being championed big time by the new Trump administration. Donald J. Trump and J. D. Vance have done more in their first five days in office than just about any other presidential team in history.  Too good not to SHARE!...

Melanie Phillips and “The Builder’s Stone”

Melanie Phillips and “The Builder’s Stone”

What we need to know to help save the West Three female hostages held by Hamas terrorists for 471 days were released, in exchange for 90 criminals in Israeli prisons. The emotions were raw as they finally met with loved ones.  Too good not to...

Christianity and the Mind

Christianity and the Mind

Believers must regain the use of the mind for God’s glory Some cynics might think that my title offers an oxymoron. "What, do Christians actually think?" Yes, I get that: too often believers do not use their minds and some might even relish that sad reality. Too many...

On the California fires

On the California fires

Thoughts on the tragedy that has befallen Los Angeles With a number of people dead and thousands of homes and businesses destroyed, the massive fires fuelled by strong winds in Los Angeles have been utterly devastating. Prayers for all those involved are desperately...

Our surveillance culture and the erosion of freedom and privacy

Our surveillance culture and the erosion of freedom and privacy

New developments are putting us all at risk We live in an age in which the surveillance state is greatly expanding, while personal freedoms and privacy are greatly decreasing. I am speaking here about the West and not some totalitarian state. Things have moved rapidly...

Christmas, terrorism and history

Christmas, terrorism and history

Yet another terrorist attack in the West We can often tell when we are nearing Christmas because even more terrorist attacks occur. Europe has had so many of these over the past few decades and when you have a car or truck used to plough into Christmas shoppers at...

Moira Deeming vindicated, John Pesutto loses

Moira Deeming vindicated, John Pesutto loses

A great victory for a great champion A Melbourne Federal Court judge has ruled in favour of expelled Liberal Party member Moira Deeming. Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto was found guilty of having defamed Deeming, having smeared her as a neo-Nazi. Too good not to...

Who is the real King?

Who is the real King?

One of the most powerful and disconcerting confrontations recorded in the gospels – and there were many – occurs near the end of the earthly life of Jesus as He confronts Pilate. While Pilate was not too thrilled with going after Him, having found no fault with Him,...

God, evangelism and the new media

God, evangelism and the new media

God is still at work around the world Christians have an unchanging message to give to a changing world. This means that the methods we use to share the good news can and should also change. The unchanging gospel can be repackaged and re-presented in new wineskins....

Biography

Bill Muehlenberg, who was born in America, lives in Melbourne. He is married to an Australian and has three sons.

He has a BA with honours in philosophy (Wheaton College, Chicago), a MA with highest honours in theology (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Boston), and has been working on a PhD in theology.

Bill and Averil spent five years in Holland working as missionaries with Youth With A Mission (YWAM).

He is a spokesman for the Family Council of Victoria. He was formerly the National Vice President of the Australian Family Association. He was formerly the National Research Coordinator at Focus on the Family.

He is involved in a ministry of pro-faith and pro-family activism. He is head of an apologetics/ethics ministry called CultureWatch, started in January 2006.

This interactive blogsite features 5,200 articles and 76,000 comments. He has thousands of printed articles and book reviews.

He has been widely sought out by the media for comments on social issues, faith issues, and family issues. Over the years he has appeared on most of the major television and radio news shows, current affairs shows, and debate programs.

He is the author of a number of books, including:

  • The Challenge of Euthanasia
  • The Challenge of Abortion
  • Dangerous Relations: The Threat of Homosexuality
  • In Defence of the Family; and
  • Strained Relations: The Challenge of Homosexuality.

Bill has been a part-time lecturer in theology, apologetics and ethics at various Melbourne theological colleges.