HarperOne, 2007. In 2004 the atheist world was rocked by the news of one of the most important defections from its ranks in recent times.…
Last month a number of leading Muslims issued the document “A Common Word Between Us and You.” The letter, delivered to world Christian leaders, was…
The report this week that scientists have now cloned embryos from adult monkeys takes us ever closer to the possibility of human cloning. Overcoming this…
There is little doubt that in the Western world there is a growing malaise centred on low self-esteem. Our sense of self-worth and value seems…
Regnery, 2007. Christianity has come under a heavy battering recently from the new misotheists. But it has also developed some significant defenders as well. The…
As the recent atheist diatribes get more shrill and more dogmatic, the paucity of their arguments become more apparent. Even though their missionary tracts are…
With the Federal election now well underway, it is time to turn the spotlight on some of the competing visions of the two main political…
Eerdmans, 1985. Available in Australia at Koorong Books. This is a gem of a book. First published in 1985, it has been reissued several times…
Of the making of books there is no end. So we are rightly told in Ecclesiastes 12:12. Thus any top ten list of books soon…
One leading theme of postmodernism is what is known as the rejection of all metanarratives. PoMo argues that there are no grand stories, no overarching…
There are certain topics you just can’t trust the mainstream media with. Abortion is surely one of them. Whenever the MSM deals with the subject,…
Regnery, 2007. There are three worrying trends which make this book necessary. The first is the hatchet job on the term fundamentalism, which had quite…
For most of human history people have accepted the fact that life is “nasty, poor, brutish, and short”, to use Hobbes’s phrase. But advances in…
It is always interesting – and scary – to check out the transhumanist websites. Go ahead: Google the term transhumanism. First up you will find…
We live in a pluralistic world, with a plurality of ideas, philosophies, beliefs and religions. How are we to treat these various belief systems and…
Focus on the Family, 2006. Unfortunately most Christians today know very little about what they believe or why they believe it. Many are biblically illiterate,…
Zondervan, 2006. Available in Australia from Koorong Books. “Faith and Jesus” is the first of a four-part DVD set meant to help answer some of the…
The neo-atheists are having a field day, with vitriol-soaked books pouring from the presses of late. The new militant crusade of the God-haters may indicate…
Worldviews matter. The way one deals with the big questions about life (e.g., Why am I here? Is there a God? What is my purpose?)…
Individuals can have tremendous influence – for good or for evil. Some people live a life of integrity, humility and service for others. Other people…