Chrislam, as the name suggests, is a growing movement wherein some Christians are seeking to find common ground with Muslims. Indeed, it actually seeks to…
Three articles on adoption in today’s press caught my attention. There are not usually that many articles on adoption in the press, so to have…
Eerdmans, 2009. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Gordon Fee has long been one of our finest New Testament scholars. His numerous works in the…
Yet another abortion-related murder. The controversial issue of abortion has resulted in more killing. And as usual the media is having a feeding frenzy on…
You wouldn’t necessarily know it from the mainstream media, but President Obama is a pretty radical politician. There are many ways this can be quantified,…
In one of the more bizarre ways to seek to explain away the universal phenomena of religion, some atheists have invented the idea that a…
Britain has not always been a relative basket case. It was indeed a great nation not all that long ago. During the Second World War…
We are often told that in order to save the planet, we must have fewer kids. Warnings about overpopulation and resources scarcity are being coupled…
There is always a moral asymmetry between the free West and its enemies. The West is meant to play by the rules, and it usually…
This year has seen and heard much of the double anniversary of Charles Darwin (the 200th anniversary of his birth, and the 150th anniversary of…
There are plenty of ways one can assess the health or otherwise of a nation, or people, or continent. There are numerous measures: economic, social,…
An ad in a church bulletin recently caught my attention. It was advertising an upcoming ‘Self-Esteem Seminar’. Nothing unusual about that. There must be zillions…
The recent National Marriage breakfast in Canberra was a great success, with some 500 people in attendance. But if you simply relied on the mainstream…
Forty years ago a farm in upstate New York was transformed into a rock and roll heaven. Billed as “Three days of peace and music,”…
There is always one thing you can count on with the secular humanist social activists: since things like absolute truth and universal morality tend not…
It’s been a long time since I walked the streets of Europe. Being here again both raises memories and creates contrasts. In one sense things…
This week’s arrest of a number of men who were alleged to have been plotting terrorist attacks against an Australian military base has reminded us…
Leftist political parties, trendy social engineers, a sympathetic mainstream media, and militant homosexual activists are all ranting about the need for same-sex marriage. It has…
There is one thing that can be counted on with absolute certainly in this relativistic world: there is a protected species which no one even…
Politicians promise much, but often deliver little. They can make all sorts of grandiose claims while campaigning, but when elected, reality sets in, and their…