There are plenty of ways one can assess the health or otherwise of a nation, or people, or continent. There are numerous measures: economic, social,…
An ad in a church bulletin recently caught my attention. It was advertising an upcoming ‘Self-Esteem Seminar’. Nothing unusual about that. There must be zillions…
Forty years ago a farm in upstate New York was transformed into a rock and roll heaven. Billed as “Three days of peace and music,”…
Yawn. Here we go again. More “cutting edge” artists seeking to make a statement. Another “bold” bit of social commentary. Another case of tax-payer funded…
Missional Press, 2009. (Available in Australia from www.movements.net and Koorong Books) There are lots of books which discuss church history. There are also plenty of…
I recently penned what I thought was the last of a three-part series on living in exile. This morning I came across a passage however…
In two earlier articles I looked at Israel in captivity, and lessons for the church. Here I want to pen a third and final article…
All around the Western world the freedoms which in so many ways arose out of the Judeo-Christian worldview are slowly being challenged or stripped away.…
OK, now that I have shamelessly pinched the title of Edmund Burke’s famous 1790 book, let me continue. Bastille Day, the French national holiday, was…
The broad topic of war and peace is a complex, multifaceted one which requires careful, prayerful and mature reflection. There are many considerations that need…
Apologetics is concerned with demonstrating the reasonableness of Christianity’s truth claims, and answering objections to them. With over 230 articles on the topic, this website…
Children are our future. The way our children develop determines how society develops. And when ideological battles are being fought in a culture, children are…
The relationship between the people of God and the world which God has created is a lengthy and complex subject. Christians have had different ideas…
One of the saddest and most shattering passages in the whole of the Bible is Psalm 137:1-4: “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and…
The Christian religion places a tremendous premium on truth. If Christianity is not true, then it is not worth following. Indeed, that is the ultimate…
In its heyday it was said of the British Empire that the sun never set on it. Because so many lands across the globe bore…
21stCentury Press, 2009. https://www.exodusfromdarkness.org.au/ (Also available in Australia at Koorong Books) This is the powerful and inspiring story of an Iranian who went from being…
Time was when a man could be praised for having discriminating tastes. It was a mark of being able to make fine differentiations. Discernment, judgment…
To get a job in the mainstream media today is not all that difficult. Let’s say you want to write for one of the major…
As a young believer I marvelled at stories of persecuted Christians in the early church. The horrible suffering, torture and death they faced were incredible…