Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 2004. For two decades this book has well served the evangelical community as a basic textbook in ethics. First published in…
Crossway Books, 2010. (Available in Australia at Koorong books) There have been a number of solid evangelical works on ethics which have appeared over the…
“Cancelling” the debts of students is not a good idea: Higher education is admittedly expensive – especially in private schools. I did both public and…
Whither evangelical theological education? If you were an American evangelical Christian growing up in the second half of the 20th century, looking to get some…
The perennial question of if and when a Christian should disobey an unjust law and engage in civil disobedience has certainly come to the fore…
Political prisoner Kim Davis knows all about unjust laws, and the criminalisation of Christianity. She is not the first, nor will she be the last…
Some years ago I wrote a two-part article examining the biblical and theological rationale for the death penalty (DP). Since then I have also penned…
Since I have been writing a bit on economics in general and foreign aid in particular of late, and since I am often asked for…
The topic of a just revolution is one which has long been debated in the Christian church. In addition to some of the key Christian…
Systematic theology, as the name implies, is simply a systematised presentation of biblical theology. Theological themes and concepts are scattered throughout the Bible, so the…
This passage is difficult in the sense that it is a contentious passage, partly because of the way different English translations render it, and how…
Eschatology, or the study of the end times, is a real hot potato topic with plenty of differing views. All sorts of major battles have…
(This is the first of a four-part article) “My memory is nearly gone; but I remember two things: I am a great sinner, and Christ…
In Part One of this article I looked at three frequently-heard objections to the death penalty. Here I will examine three more. In each of…
With the current round of leftist protests in the US, especially targeting Wall Street and the wealthy, I find it a continued source of fascination…
Arguably the most important moral issue of our day is the wholesale and wanton slaughter of the unborn. With some 100,000 unborn babies killed every…
A text often used by those of the religious left, or those advocating for a type of socialism, is Lev. 25. Here we find Yahweh’s…
The broad issue of the relationship between science and faith, and the more particular issue of the debate over creation and evolution are of course…