There is nothing much new under the sun, as Solomon reminded us some 3000 years ago. And for much of the last 2000 years Christians…
We live in a dumbed-down age in which basic knowledge, understanding, discernment, and reasoning are all but shot to pieces. People seldom think carefully and…
The Australian Institute for Public Policy, 1990. In 1987 George Roche, President of Hillsdale College in Michigan, wrote a valuable book called A World Without…
There is plenty of incisive commentary in the new volume by Watkin: The new book by a Monash University philosophy professor and Christian thinker is…
“Bill Muehlenberg is a prophet who for decades has seen what few have. His insights into our cultural decline and what we must do to…
My thesis, which I have argued before, is fairly simple: the culture is in the state it is in largely because of the condition of…
The recent Victorian election was of course a major battle between Labor and Liberal. But it was also part of a larger ideological, political and…
I don’t mean to pick on Josie Cunningham. She is simply representative of a dying culture. Indeed, what she has done is no worse than…
Are Christians meant to be markedly different from the surrounding culture? Of course. If you simply read the New Testament you will find this theme…
The decline of a culture can take place by means of a billion small steps. Individually such things may not seem like much, but taken…
We now know without the slightest doubt that the homosexual militants are a pack of bullies who thrive on intimidation, stand-over tactics, and thuggery. And…
When the unacceptable becomes acceptable, then anything goes. When we declare as a society that mothers have a right to kill their own babies in…
If one reads the lists of vices that are the mark of an unbelieving, God-rejecting culture (as in Romans 1:29-31) or are a sign of…
Tyndale House, 2005. Charles Colson is a leading Christian commentator and apologist. His daily radio commentary, Breakpoint, provides short, punchy and pithy observations on the…
Fontana Press, 1993. When Edwin Abbott wrote his turn-of-the-century minor classic, Flatland, he introduced us to a two-dimensional land where all activity was lived out…
We need an external moral guidance system: As we know, most folks in the world, and far too many Christians, seem to think the best…
We need to teach morality – this is a first-rate resource: All the great teachers made use of stories to reinforce their message and add…
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…
Perhaps we should go back to the Master on this: Have you ever considered going to the house of a stranger who invited you for…
Yes we should be engaging with our culture: All Christians know about the Great Commission and most know who Charles Colson was. As to the…