A newspaper item today tells of two schoolboys, both aged 14, who have been charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in Brisbane. This is shocking…
Abortion law in Victoria is set to be changed. The Victorian Law Reform Commission (VLRC) has just released its report on ways to proceed. The…
We live in a world that has turned common sense on its head, and has inverted long-held moral values. What we used to regard as…
One of the great achievements of the West is the university, where the free exchange of ideas takes place, and various points of view can…
Democracy is always a precarious thing at the best of times, and the increasing rise in judicial activism is not helping matters much. Throughout the…
That there are plenty of secularists who are happy to push the homosexual agenda is not so surprising. What is surprising, and sad, is when…
Every once in a while an idea comes along that is so silly and so preposterous, that one does not know whether to laugh or…
Today we see a steady erosion of freedom, especially freedom of speech, in much of the West. This is most often seen in the assault…
People are involved in all sorts of relationships and personal associations. They always have been, and always will be. But the question arises as to…
Last week at a Melbourne university I found myself in the middle of something called Sex It Up 08. I could have been forgiven for…
Doubleday, 2008. In this important volume two philosophers with interests in bioethics and law make the case for the moral worth of the human embryo…
One keeps wondering just how far down the gurgler society can continue to go before it fully and finally implodes on itself. The moral madness…
When believers seek to apply biblical principles to issues of public policy, it is admittedly a complex and difficult task. We are often best advised…
What a culture prioritises tells us a lot about its moral and spiritual condition. And what it doesn’t prioritise also tells us quite a bit.…
The Left likes to claim the high moral ground when it comes to things such as social justice and defending the cause of the poor…
Do worldviews matter? You bet they do. Ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have bad consequences. Bad worldviews lead to some very bad outcomes. Take…
Holland is part of what is known as the Low Countries (because of being near or under sea level). But Holland is not just low…
OK, now that I have everyone absolutely flummoxed by my cryptic title, let me say it is a send up on the 100 Revs which…
You know we have really entered a moral freefall when it actually appears reasonable to call black white, and white black; when we manage to…
A recent article by Steven Pinker, reprinted in the Age last week, tried to explain morality from an evolutionary perspective. Steven Pinker is an evolutionary…