Simply put, women are treated as second-class citizens in most Muslim-majority nations. And this is not an anomaly of Islam: it fully follows from authoritative…
Hate to say it, but some of the most wussy people I know are Christians: the slightest thing can set them off, send them running,…
We live in distressing times. But given our historical amnesia, we forget that so have many other people. Indeed, history is full of desperate and…
The Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas was founded in 1987 as an offshoot of the militant Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Since 2007 it has controlled Gaza.…
OK, so Christmas is coming up, and what better gifts are there than books? And theological books have to be pretty high on the list…
The architects of the sexual revolution have a lot to answer for. Part of the 60s counter-culture revolution, the sexual anarchists did all they could…
The trouble with so much of Christian preaching today is we are getting many people up for a big fall. We are giving folks a…
Just when you thought Western civilisation was on its last legs, a Western nation comes along and surprises you. And when that nation is France,…
With over 12,000 rockets pouring into Israeli cities in the past 12 years, and another barrage of them in the past week, Israel is again…
Julia Gillard has announced a Royal Commission into child abuse. On the one hand we all can say ‘amen’ and wish it well. All child…
One need not be a hard-core Communist or anarchist to bring about the end to freedom and democracy – simply push for special rights for…
OK, this is now an official series. I was hoping a few articles on this would suffice, but how wrong I was. Every day another…
The pro-abortion crowd will often throw up the usual hard cases when it comes to their demand for abortion on demand. One hard case often…
Scripture speaks of the final separation of the sheep and the goats, or the wheat and the tares. This is an eschatological judgment taking place…
The Spanish philosopher Santayana once said that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. This is tragically true, and it is one…
This passage is difficult in the sense that it is a contentious passage, partly because of the way different English translations render it, and how…
Eschatology, or the study of the end times, is a real hot potato topic with plenty of differing views. All sorts of major battles have…
An agenda is different from a conspiracy. A conspiracy involves secret plans to achieve some harmful end, while an agenda is simply a list of…
Western Christians are not Israel, and most of us have not been physically carried away into captivity. But spiritually and metaphorically speaking that is exactly…
If there is one thing which stands out perfectly clear in the just-held US election, it is this: Perhaps half of all Americans now expect…