Some of the more radical elements of the environmental movement say some pretty weird things. Some of their proposals to make us all greener seem…
It seems every day there is another shocking example of judges letting criminals off the hook. Soft sentences for a whole array of offences seem…
Take any contentious social issue of the day, and you will find plenty of illogic, name-calling, emotional appeals, and confused thinking. All this is much…
Children’s author Philip Pullman has written a “Dark Trilogy,” the first volume of which, The Golden Compass, is now a major motion picture. Nothing wrong…
When Chamberlain visited Hitler, he was full of good intentions, even though he was being pretty naive. He came back from his meeting proclaiming “Peace…
Why am I not surprised? The Victorian government has just announced that it will grant IVF access to homosexual couples. Minutes ago it declared that…
Baker, 2006. Available in Australia at Koorong Books. Three millennia ago it was said by a friend of Job that surely as sparks fly upward,…
Two six year old boys are talking together, and one says that he found a condom on a patio. The other one asks, “What’s a…
There is no perfect politician, and there is no perfect political party. They all have their strengths and weaknesses, good points and bad points. And…
Every once in a while I seem to need to restate the case for Christian social and political involvement. Mind you, I have made it…
This famous phrase, made even more famous by Handel in his Messiah, comes from Psalm 2. The whole Psalm is about the nations, and their…
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…
Heroes are in short supply nowadays. We don’t seem to have a need for them. Or we find them off-putting. Indeed, if anything, we seem…
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…
On such a hot potato subject as this, a few preliminary disclaimers. First, it would not be wise for me to presume to tell other…
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…
Many would have seen on the evening news last night stirring scenes of protesters surfing out into the ocean to thwart Japanese whalers who were…