Hate to say it, but some of the most wussy people I know are Christians: the slightest thing can set them off, send them running,…
We live in distressing times. But given our historical amnesia, we forget that so have many other people. Indeed, history is full of desperate and…
OK, so Christmas is coming up, and what better gifts are there than books? And theological books have to be pretty high on the list…
The trouble with so much of Christian preaching today is we are getting many people up for a big fall. We are giving folks a…
Julia Gillard has announced a Royal Commission into child abuse. On the one hand we all can say ‘amen’ and wish it well. All child…
One need not be a hard-core Communist or anarchist to bring about the end to freedom and democracy – simply push for special rights for…
OK, this is now an official series. I was hoping a few articles on this would suffice, but how wrong I was. Every day another…
Scripture speaks of the final separation of the sheep and the goats, or the wheat and the tares. This is an eschatological judgment taking place…
The Spanish philosopher Santayana once said that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. This is tragically true, and it is one…
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…
An agenda is different from a conspiracy. A conspiracy involves secret plans to achieve some harmful end, while an agenda is simply a list of…
Western Christians are not Israel, and most of us have not been physically carried away into captivity. But spiritually and metaphorically speaking that is exactly…
As the dust settles, let me offer here a few more reflections on the re-election of Obama. Plenty of commentary will be forthcoming in the…
Barack Hussein Obama has been returned to the White House. At this early stage he has won 275 of the 538 Electoral College votes. He…
Plenty of folks are quite careful how they live. They will spend lots of time in exercise, or carefully monitor what they eat, or take…
What should our emphasis be as believers? Should we only focus on the positive, or is there a place to also highlight the negative? For…
OK, this will have to be my final piece on the important US elections which are now only a few days away. The only other…
There are plenty of obvious oxymorons out there and one that has to be high on the list is this: “Christian Left”. Sure, these lefties…
Increasingly we are seeing our democratic freedoms being eroded at the hands of the various activist minority groups. As they push to have their agendas…