I just returned from the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in Melbourne, where the two Christian pastors have been found guilty of vilifying Muslims. The…
On Friday December 17 two Christian pastors were found guilty of vilifying Muslims. The decision, handed down in Melbourne, could mark the beginning of the…
Since Joseph Wakim of the Australian Arabic Council has given us a public lecture on what Christianity is meant to be about, perhaps I can…
The Age is not usually known as a journal of theological opinion. Thus one is curious as to why it featured Nicholas Kristof’s piece on…
There are many problems with vilification legislation, especially when applied to religion. I have documented ten such problems in my paper, The Problem with Vilification…
Eerdmans, 2004. The issue of the relationship between men and women is a vexed and complex issue. Plenty of volumes have been written on this…
One reason homosexuals want marriage is for acceptance and respectability. Another reason they want marriage is to get access to children. Please consider this quote…
We live in dark times. And in dark times, there is a pressing need to have leadership that offers a way out of the darkness.…
In 1984 the American social commentator Richard John Neuhaus wrote an incisive book entitled The Naked Public Square. In it he argued that in the…
Presbyterian Church of Victoria, 2004. Quiz time. When was the last time you read a book on the ten commandments? Indeed, when was the last…
The steady march of those who seek to undermine pro-family and pro-life values continues unabated. Various activist groups are making great headway in the face…
The Greens, along with the Democrats, are among the most supportive of the homosexual agenda, with Labor not far behind. Thus religious folk in general,…
Two years ago on this day the Herald Sun featured an opinion piece by Andrew Bolt entitled, “Even heathens can learn from a man who…
It has often been noted that the most liked people in the Old Testament were the false prophets. How come? Simply because the false prophets…
I want to mention two films I have seen on television recently. How much you relate to what I am going to say will depend…
Paraclete Press, 1999. It is the stuff of every parent’s nightmare: the shrill scream, the loud screeching brakes, the heart pounding as you run out…
Three guesses as to who said the following: “Even in purely nonreligious terms, homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty and, in the words…
Encounter Books, 2002. As the Western world grows increasingly secular, the attacks on religion in general and Christianity in particular become ever more shrill and…
Eerdmans, 2002. I was in a Protestant Christian bookshop recently and was talking about this book with the store’s manager. When he learned of the…
When I was a new Christian, reading through the New Testament for the first time, I was quite fascinated with – and frightened by – …