When the great earthquake of 1755 rocked Lisbon, it raised all sorts of questions about God and faith. The quake, along with a devastating tsunami…
The media today is abuzz with the shocking case of yet more child-on-child violence in the UK. Reminiscent of the James Bulger case, two schoolboys…
Very few people – at least Westerners – would be unaware of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man just found guilty of kidnapping, rape, murder and…
Crossway Books, 2008. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Suffering is a universal and perennial problem. No one escapes it, and all are left buffeted…
With Australia’s greatest fire tragedy still unfolding, (not to mention terrible flooding in the north of the country), all sorts of questions arise. Attempting to…
Baker, 2006. Available in Australia at Koorong Books. Three millennia ago it was said by a friend of Job that surely as sparks fly upward,…
IVP, 2007. This is a thought-provoking book, one which is sure to provoke a bit of controversy. Steven Keillor is an American historian, who also…
All worldviews have to wrestle with the problem of evil. New Agers, secularists, atheists and theists all must come up with some sort of account…
Crossway, 2004. Evil and suffering are perennial problems which baffle theist and atheist alike. But the presence of evil in the world is a real…
Harper, 2005. This is a very important book. That is because this is a very important subject tackled by an important author. Indeed, Guinness is…
Paraclete Press, 1999. It is the stuff of every parent’s nightmare: the shrill scream, the loud screeching brakes, the heart pounding as you run out…