As the Federal Government still debates the issue of human cloning, the impression remains that on the one side of the debate are scientists, and…
Earlier this week the Australia Institute issued a report claiming that the corporate world is increasingly targeting and sexualising our children. Young girls especially are…
Australians are talking a lot lately about the problem of obesity. It is of course a genuine concern, given the health problems associated with it.…
When Muslim leaders speak about freedom, they have a very different concept in mind than does the Western world. Freedom for a Muslim is complete…
Eerdmans, 2006. Major recent commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles that have featured a more-or-less conservative and evangelical stance include the NIGTC volume by Knight (1992),…
It is not hard to produce solid reasons as to why our school system is in need of a major overhaul. On a daily basis…
Up until around 175 years ago, most people were educated at home, or by the church. As such, public education is a relatively new phenomenon.…
Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop caused quite a stir last week when she made a two-part suggestion about our education system. One, she proposed a…
SPCK, 2006. The standing joke about Tom Wright goes like this: An inquiring student gives Dr Wright a call. His secretary says,” Sorry, but he…
Capitalism is not perfect. But it has produced a wide range of benefits. No other economic system has been able to come up with the…
Religion in the public arena has been getting a lot of attention recently. The Australian Democrats are fearful of Christian influence in politics. (Indeed, I…
Bernard-Henri Lévy is not your average French intellectual, for at least three reasons: what he says usually makes sense; he is more or less conservative;…
Detractors of the war in Iraq say we have been bogged down in another Vietnam and we have simply made matters worse. Critics cite the…
Marriage is not regarded very highly nowadays. The institution of marriage has been savaged for some time, and the attacks look set to continue for…
In a world that seems to grow more insecure and precarious by the day, there are always new issues arising to be greatly concerned about.…
In the early 80s when a strange new disease appeared in Western cities, it was first called GRID by the medical community: Gay Related Immunodeficiency…
With a title like this, I expect the police would soon be knocking on my door. There should be community outrage. Parents should be appalled…
IVP, 2006. What do you get when you put a conservative university professor who happens to be a Christian in the same room with a…
As has been frequently documented, our educational institutions have by and large been captured by the ideological Left and the forces of political correctness. The…
The cultural revolution of the 60s unleashed a lot of madness and mischief on to the world. I should know, because I was a part…