In Amos 8:11 we read these frightening words: “‘The days are coming,’ declares the Sovereign LORD, ‘when I will send a famine through the land…
I suppose I could coin a phrase here: “churchicide”. This new term refers to when a church or denomination intentionally seeks to take its own…
Those familiar with their Old Testament, or with the biblical use of rhetoric, will readily recognise what my title is referring to. It is one…
Moody, 2010. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) The first thing to note about this book is that the subject matter – the Nazi terror…
I never thought I would write an article locking horns with N.T. Wright. Certainly not on a political matter, since he is a New Testament…
For Christians the Word of God should be everything. It should form the basis of all our thinking about all things – not just religious,…
At one point early on the Christian church was fighting for its very life. As such, it had absolutely no time for peripherals, for externalities,…
I think it is safe to say that there are probably as many Catholics who are unaware of what their own church teaches on a…
A common argument made by pacifists and/or those who really do not know their Bibles very well is that all killing is wrong because it…
This is a famous passage, but one which can often be rather poorly interpreted. At least it is often used to support various agendas which…
It was the news the world has been waiting to hear for a decade now. Finally it has come, and celebrations have erupted around the…
Everyone is talking about carbon lately, but I suspect very few actually know much about it. Indeed, it is not just carbon, but a whole…
There would be a number of reasons why an estimated 2 billion people watched Will and Kate tie the knot. But perhaps the major reason…
The world has lost a great man of God, a modern-day prophet, and a humble warrior for the Lord. He sadly died in a car…
You can always tell when churches are losing the plot when they start making the headlines – but for all the wrong reasons. When they…
Arguably the three most important things in the world are life, family and faith. Yet for some reason, it seems the Greens everywhere have declared…
There is plenty that we can learn from the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, especially when it comes to challenging a sleeping, compromising and errant church.…
Let me say this boldly and bluntly: when the Anzacs died in huge numbers nearly a century ago, they did not do it so that…
Is there ever a place for Christians to speak out on moral and social issues of the day? In one sense this would seem to…