America is usually regarded as the home of the biggest and the best. Well, the biggest, at any rate. So it should come as no…
William Wilberforce is rightly remembered as the man who helped set the slaves free. The evangelical Christian and politician is especially honoured this year, since…
Lion, 2007. Available in Australia from Koorong Books. This book combines two main areas: philosophy of religion, and historical theology. It examines the big questions…
Eerdmans, 1985. Available in Australia at Koorong Books. This is a gem of a book. First published in 1985, it has been reissued several times…
I just saw a piece on Channel Seven’s current affairs show, Today Tonight. I am so glad I did. It was an expose of a…
Jossey-Bass, 2007. Available from Koorong Books in Australia. Dick Staub does not like what he sees. Nor should we. Much of the Western world is…
When the Apostle Paul was at Ephesus, he told the leaders of the church in his farewell message that he did not refrain from declaring…
Up until quite recently, societies benefited greatly by certain institutions which in fact predated the state. Marriage and family are two institutions which have been…
We live in an age in which taking a strong stand for anything is frowned upon. About the only thing many people today are willing…
While many Christians may be apolitical or even look down on political involvement as being somehow not very “spiritual,” the truth remains that we live…
Eerdmans, 2007. This is the third important conservative commentary on Matthew to appear in the past decade; the other two being by Keener (1999) and…
It really does get tedious after a while. Self-proclaimed “artists” who want to make a strong and “courageous” statement to “get us to think”, et…
Regnery, 2007. There are three worrying trends which make this book necessary. The first is the hatchet job on the term fundamentalism, which had quite…
In a predominantly secular culture, theological distinctions are easily lost. Indeed, they are seen as irrelevant altogether, not only for secularists, but for many believers…
Thirty years ago today Elvis Presley died. He influenced a generation, not only with his swivelling hips, but an endless supply of number one hits. His…
Often the church is its own worst enemy. Sure, there is plenty of opposition and animosity towards Christianity, but sometimes those calling themselves believers can…
I confess. I am writing this article for selfish reasons. You see, anyone who is in the public spotlight to a fair degree will be…
The recent Make it Count forum put on by the Australian Christian Lobby in Canberra has created a predictable stir amongst our intelligentsia and Christophobes.…
In Canberra several hundred Christian leaders had the opportunity to hear and interact with the leaders of the two main political parties. Both Prime Minister…
For most of human history people have accepted the fact that life is “nasty, poor, brutish, and short”, to use Hobbes’s phrase. But advances in…