Presbyterian and Reformed, 1986. (Now published by Christian Scholars Press, 1350 East Flamingo, Suite 97, Las Vegas, NV 88119. Phone: 1-800-41-TRUTH.) This book may be…
Bantam Press, 2006. Many years ago when I read the short volume by atheist Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian, I thought: there…
Bantam Press, 2006. As mentioned in part one, a book this size really deserves a book-length response. Thus I can here only highlight some of…
It was very thoughtful of Jill Singer to pick Christmas day to launch her atheist jihad in her Herald Sun column. In doing so she…
As I mentioned last week, the Victorian Court of Appeal has upheld an appeal by two Christian pastors who had been taken through the wringer…
The new leader of Federal Labor, Kevin Rudd, is seeking to take his party in new directions, while holding on to older core values. Such…
I have argued elsewhere that Christianity was instrumental in the rise of the West. Progress in law, economics, science and society have largely been based…
Despite the superficial and uninformed criticisms of the secularists and the I-hate-God crowd, much of religion has been a force for good in the world.…
Is Christmas on the way out? Well, certainly not the commercialised and consumeristic version. That is alive and well. But the real Christmas may well…
I have just returned from the Court of Appeal in Melbourne where the two Dannys have had their appeal to their conviction of vilification charges…
On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was gunned down by a deranged fan, Mark Chapman. Still at the prime of his life at 40 years…
Atheism has been around, in various forms, for some time now. At the risk of oversimplification, one can speak of three phases or periods of…
Baker, 2006. The role of evangelical Christianity in the public arena is a contentious and hotly debated topic. How should evangelicals engage with politics, culture…
I have mentioned before Richard Dawkins’ new book, The God Delusion. While familiar with some of his earlier work, I have yet to fully read…
These are not easy days for atheists. Not only is their worldview a minority viewpoint, and a relatively recent one at that, but it may…
If it takes faith to be a person of faith, it also seems to take a lot of faith to be a person of no…
I have written before about the complex relationship between faith and political involvement. And I will do so again. Here I want to address one…
The Christian faith gets some pretty bad press nowadays. Certainly much of this is deserved. But for all its faults, the Christian religion is responsible…
In these secular times, religion regularly gets a bad rap. And anti-Christian bigotry especially accelerates, with most of the world’s ills, from burnt toast to…
How is the believer to think about poverty, welfare, and the best way to help the poor? Such topics are far too big to consider…