Baker, 2011. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) There is nothing really new about the new atheists. They simply regurgitate the same old objections which…
I was at a meeting recently in which a professional expressed concern about how children will be exposed to homosexual propaganda in sex education classes.…
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) is one of my favourite writers, and his 1908 volume Orthodoxy is one of my favourite books. He was an English…
Islam is a political faith. It sees no separation between the sacred and the secular. Everything is religious, and everything is political. Westerners have a…
It took me less than five seconds to decide whether or not to keep a flyer I found in my mailbox. The 12-pager came from…
A commentator recently said he found the “poem Desiderata to be very beautiful. Its advice is not incompatible with the teachings of Christ, in my…
The Word of God is a gift to God’s people, but mastering its content does not always come automatically. While the Spirit of God is…
I must confess: I simply do not read all the gossip mags, so I do not know whether Nicole Kidman used a surrogate arrangement because…
A sad reality is that many people who call themselves Christians really believe and act little differently than atheists. Both share a common trait. Both…
Concerning our recent flood crisis, there are of course some things out of human control, such as the forces of nature. But some things –…
Biblical Christianity holds that God exists and that God has spoken. While he speaks in different ways, he pre-eminently speaks to us in and through…
Crossway, 2008. In 2001 the English Standard Version of the Bible was released. Its parentage goes back to William Tyndale’s 1525 New Testament and the…
The greater something is, the more likely it will be attacked. The greatest social institutions of all time, marriage and family, are now under severe…
Since my last article on this topic drew a number of comments (I was expecting only one or two), maybe it is worth writing more…
Whenever a major disaster or national tragedy breaks forth, a heated debate tends to arise within Christian circles. Opinions tend to be polarised, with two…
One does not need to go very far to find examples of rather confused thinking about abortion. Indeed, both intellectual and moral confusion typically abound…
What do you call it when a political party says one thing but does another? What do you call it when a party takes the…
Life used to be seen as a gift. Now it is being demanded as a right. Up until recently every new life coming into the…
It’s been a busy period for the religion of peace. On a daily basis we hear of Islamist terror attacks around the world. These have…
Modern, universal, secular education is largely taken for granted today in the West. But it has not always been in existence. Up until relatively recently…