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…
It was rather odd to see so many female Senators voting for human cloning the other week. This in spite of the fact that many…
Holland has just recently declared it would ban the burqa, and other face veils, worn by Muslim women. It will be the strictest law of…
The clone and kill bill to be debated in the House of Reps next week is a strange bit of legislation. While it has some…
The Christian faith gets some pretty bad press nowadays. Certainly much of this is deserved. But for all its faults, the Christian religion is responsible…
In these secular times, religion regularly gets a bad rap. And anti-Christian bigotry especially accelerates, with most of the world’s ills, from burnt toast to…
Those opposed to euthanasia have long warned about the slippery slope involved in its legalisation. Today the hard cases of the terminally ill; tomorrow, anyone…
We live in an age in which threats to world peace and security constantly appear. Some threats are more ominous than others. Some rogue states…
We are in a real war. Radical Islamists are stepping up their efforts to destroy the West, and Christians are a primary target. A number…
The G20 Summit in Melbourne is now history, as is the Australian tour of U2. Both tried to grapple with the issue of world poverty.…
How is the believer to think about poverty, welfare, and the best way to help the poor? Such topics are far too big to consider…
Many media outlets reported the recent remarks made by pop star Elton John. He argued that religions were by nature intolerant and bigoted, and they…
Despite the number of credible scientists who argued against human cloning, the Australian Senate nonetheless went ahead and voted for it to occur here. Not…
The recent surrogate birth to Federal Labor MP Stephen Conroy and partner has reignited a long-standing debate about the ethics of surrogacy. As with all…
Even though it is still early days yet, there have been hundreds of analyses and discussions about the Democratic swing in the recent US midterm…
There were some very interesting comments about faith and politics made recently by a Victorian Labor MP. Health Minister Bronwyn Pike said that we all…
There were not one but two editorials in today’s Australian (November 8, 2006) that demonstrate how weak thinking and ethical poverty often run in tandem.…
This week the Senate debates whether we allow embryo research and human cloning. The media often likes to argue that this is a battle between…
There is good news and bad news concerning Europe. The bad news is, it is in a mess. Having rejected its Christian heritage and embraced…