Why Christians need to support Trump: America will soon determine who will be its next president. Debate still rages amongst the voters at large, and…
Thoughts on Trump and CT: By now most of you would have heard how the leading evangelical magazine in America, Christianity Today, has editorialised that…
HarperOne, 2011. This is another very important and helpful volume by the world-class historian and sociologist of religion. Stark has already penned a number of…
There were two recent news items which had to do with Islam. The first seemed to indicate that Islam is in the ascendency, while the…
Encounter Books, 2002. As the Western world grows increasingly secular, the attacks on religion in general and Christianity in particular become ever more shrill and…
Thoughts on the attack on Bishop Emmanuel: OK, a mouthful of a title, but you know where I am heading with this. Just two days…
In praise of the early church creeds: If one wanted to summarise the basics of the Christian faith, and present some of the main and…
A century ago this important work appeared: OK, I am a bit off by a few weeks, or a few months, but we can still…
Science as we know it today would not be the same without its Christian roots: To speak of Western civilisation is to speak about Christian…
USA Press, 2023. A new resource on the war we are in: There are now quite a few very good books available which offer telling…
More quite unhelpful memes: Because there is never a shortage of not very helpful and often quite silly and reckless posters, memes and sayings floating…
One can oppose abortion while supporting morally licit forms of killing: There are some believers – especially some Catholics – who seek to argue that…
The religious basis of transhumanism: Many of the folks pushing things like transhumanism, AI, posthumanism and so on have often made clear the religious nature…
Yes the Christian can have great joy amidst suffering: The Christian faith is a paradoxical faith. We all know many of these paradoxes: we get…
They really are sinking to a new low in their anti-Christian bigotry: A strange title, admittedly, at least to non-Australians. But those who live here…
What General MacArthur managed to do in Japan after the war was nothing short of remarkable: What do you do if you are given the…
The secular left West is becoming ever more similar to communism: Christianity was one of the main driving forces of the West. For many centuries…
The public arena is not neutral, with rival religions competing for hegemony: We are told – at least in theory – that in the West…
On Musk, Twitter, and his critics: Hmm, it seems to happen every time. You get some well-known public figure doing a few good things in…
Culture, creativity, growth and learning will take place in the next life: Culture matters. It did when God created the world, it matters now, and…