We no longer believe in sin, so we no longer believe in a saviour: In the old days, most people knew they were sinful beings…
Pop stars and rock stars are not usually known as great and enduring moral philosophers. And we should not expect them to be. But nonetheless,…
G. K. Chesterton once remarked that “Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.”…
I am not sure which is worse: the actions being described here, or the blasé matter-of-fact way they are being reported. It is as if…
The first thing that entered my mind when the Irish decided to commit national suicide by voting for the destruction of marriage was: “As in…
The tragic drive-by shooting of Australian Chris Lane as he was out jogging in Oklahoma this week raises all sorts of issues. It is a…
Women do not fare very well under Islam. Talk about a patriarchal religion; this is arguably the most misogynist religion in existence today. Women are…
P&R, 2012. I have worked with young people, but I am not a youth pastor or a youth worker. However I have often stated that…
Is God interested in government? Does God’s word have anything to say to us today about godly governance? Does character matter when it comes to…
Life used to be seen as a gift. Now it is being demanded as a right. Up until recently every new life coming into the…
There are a number of defining features of the post-Christian West. Some of our highest virtues and values now include personal autonomy, personal choice, and…
In today’s postmodern climate, truth means nothing, and personal preferences mean everything. OK, we expect that from the secular world. But what happens when the…
One of the big problems with living in an age of rights is that when one person demands his or her rights, often someone else…
In 1956 Harvard sociologist Pitirim Sorokin wrote The American Sex Revolution. In it he said, “This sex revolution is as important as the most dramatic…
Thomas Nelson, 2008. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Nonie Darwish knows a fair amount about Islam. She was an Egyptian Muslim for the first…
I guess it had to come to this. We live in such a moonbat age that what comes out of the lips of some politicians…
Pantheon, 2003. “Hell is other people,” existentialist Jean Paul Sartre once said. That about summarises the philosophy of Laura Kipnis. Her book offers a very…
A review of Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn’t Work. By Jennifer Roback Morse.
Spence Publishing, 2001. What does the free-market have to do with the family? What does libertarianism have to do with community? What does the minimal…
Martin Niemoller was a decorated submarine commander in WW I, an ardent nationalist and a pastor in Germany. At first he welcomed the rise to…
Most of us are aware of the tragic civil wars taking place in countries like the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. These conflicts have split apart…