The various battles we find ourselves continuously embroiled in – be they political, ideological, cultural or social – all finally come down to one chief…
Thomas Nelson, 2007. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) This is a collection of essays by members of the Ravi Zacharias International Ministries team. Except…
The term ‘fundamentalism’ is today taken as a term of derision. It is used in a pejorative sense. It is now used to refer to…
Theologically speaking, apostasy has to do with turning away from the faith, and denying the basic truths thereof. It is a renunciation of the faith,…
If news reports are to be believed, the Church of England will apologise to Charles Darwin for rejecting his theory of evolution. This is how…
As we commemorate the tragedy of the Islamic assault on America seven years ago, there is still much fuzzy thinking about religion and terror. A…
Very soon the US elections will be upon us. Conservatives are pinning their hopes on a McCain/Palin victory. Liberals/leftists are hoping the Obama/Biden team will…
Regnery, 2008. Serious books contain ideas and arguments which can have a profound impact on the rest of the world. Ideas, in other words, have…
There are at least two clear reasons why the secular left is absolutely foaming at the mouth over Sarah Palin, John McCain’s Republican running mate.…
A mighty prophet has just left us. One of the great figures of the past century has passed away. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, born in Russia in…
Crossway, 2007. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) In September 1980 Charles Malik gave a powerful talk on the need for evangelicals to reclaim the…
Fundamentalists can be a sensitive lot. When their faith-based worldview is challenged, they can become quite ornery and defensive. When it is pointed out that…
Eerdmans, 2008. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) In 1951 H. Richard Niebuhr penned his now classic volume, Christ and Culture. In it he sought…
It is amazing, when you think about it, that a major newspaper like the Melbourne Age actually pays people to do little more than write…
In the best-selling diatribe by Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, the evangelist for atheism argues that people who claim to believe in God are deluded.…
The first sentence of the preamble to the US Declaration of Independence is well known. It reads, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that…
Several years ago R. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, made a profound observation: “Christians are sleeping through history as new medical…
There are many top-notch Christian apologists on the scene today. They are doing a superb job of demonstrating the reasonableness of the Christian faith, and…
The dean of evangelical theologians during the post-war period, Carl F. H. Henry wrote his magnum opus, God, Revelation and Authority, between 1976 and 1983.…
There is no shortage of nutty ideas. A recent news item proclaimed that by mid-century, humans and robots will engage in loving and sexual relationships.…