St. Martins Press, 2006. Lebanon used to be a bright spot in a very dark Middle East. It was a rare democracy with a Christian…
Philosophical fads and intellectual trends come and go. It sometimes seems that each new one is more bizarre and short-lived than the previous one. This…
The Australian House of Representatives has just voted to allow the passage of a clone and kill bill. The Patterson Bill was passed by a…
Hollywood often cranks out films which are far from friendly toward the free market. The 1987 Wall Street (with the memorable Michael Douglas line, “Greed…
Despite the by now routine and rather boring warnings about the end of the world as we know it, the actual truth may be quite…
Atheism has been around, in various forms, for some time now. At the risk of oversimplification, one can speak of three phases or periods of…
Baker, 2006. The role of evangelical Christianity in the public arena is a contentious and hotly debated topic. How should evangelicals engage with politics, culture…
I have mentioned before Richard Dawkins’ new book, The God Delusion. While familiar with some of his earlier work, I have yet to fully read…
These are not easy days for atheists. Not only is their worldview a minority viewpoint, and a relatively recent one at that, but it may…
If it takes faith to be a person of faith, it also seems to take a lot of faith to be a person of no…
If I or others like me warn about the rising tide of AIDS in Australia, or speak about the need to challenge the behaviour that…
I have written before about the complex relationship between faith and political involvement. And I will do so again. Here I want to address one…
It was rather odd to see so many female Senators voting for human cloning the other week. This in spite of the fact that many…
Holland has just recently declared it would ban the burqa, and other face veils, worn by Muslim women. It will be the strictest law of…
The clone and kill bill to be debated in the House of Reps next week is a strange bit of legislation. While it has some…
The Christian faith gets some pretty bad press nowadays. Certainly much of this is deserved. But for all its faults, the Christian religion is responsible…
In these secular times, religion regularly gets a bad rap. And anti-Christian bigotry especially accelerates, with most of the world’s ills, from burnt toast to…
Those opposed to euthanasia have long warned about the slippery slope involved in its legalisation. Today the hard cases of the terminally ill; tomorrow, anyone…
It’s amazing how many actors, rock stars and other celebrities are coming out of the woodwork to lecture us on all manner of issues of…
We live in an age in which threats to world peace and security constantly appear. Some threats are more ominous than others. Some rogue states…