The recent hanging of Saddam Hussein has generated a fair amount of interest and commentary. One thing heard quite often, and from the usual suspects,…
For nearly half a century now we have been allowing the feminist version of events to inform our social consciousness. The accepted wisdom is that…
It was very thoughtful of Jill Singer to pick Christmas day to launch her atheist jihad in her Herald Sun column. In doing so she…
Not too long ago the West was involved in a life and death struggle against totalitarian communism. The battles were being fought across the globe,…
As I mentioned last week, the Victorian Court of Appeal has upheld an appeal by two Christian pastors who had been taken through the wringer…
Multinational Corporations (MNC’s) often get a bad rap, and they are usually seen as a source of exploitation and oppression. This mindset goes back at…
Homosexuals continue to demand special rights. That of course is to be expected. What is, or should be, unexpected is when Christians join the chorus,…
Despite the superficial and uninformed criticisms of the secularists and the I-hate-God crowd, much of religion has been a force for good in the world.…
Is Christmas on the way out? Well, certainly not the commercialised and consumeristic version. That is alive and well. But the real Christmas may well…
While a majority of Muslims do not support terrorism and jihad against the West, a sizable minority (10 to 15 per cent) do. Known as…
Much is made of the tragic problems of child abuse and child neglect. The latter can take many forms, but one of the most important,…
Philosophical fads and intellectual trends come and go. It sometimes seems that each new one is more bizarre and short-lived than the previous one. This…
Hollywood often cranks out films which are far from friendly toward the free market. The 1987 Wall Street (with the memorable Michael Douglas line, “Greed…
Despite the by now routine and rather boring warnings about the end of the world as we know it, the actual truth may be quite…
Atheism has been around, in various forms, for some time now. At the risk of oversimplification, one can speak of three phases or periods of…
I have mentioned before Richard Dawkins’ new book, The God Delusion. While familiar with some of his earlier work, I have yet to fully read…
These are not easy days for atheists. Not only is their worldview a minority viewpoint, and a relatively recent one at that, but it may…
If it takes faith to be a person of faith, it also seems to take a lot of faith to be a person of no…
If I or others like me warn about the rising tide of AIDS in Australia, or speak about the need to challenge the behaviour that…
I have written before about the complex relationship between faith and political involvement. And I will do so again. Here I want to address one…