The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has just released its report, Article 18: Freedom of Religion and Belief. The report is the result of…
Modern music has made some very radical changes in the past few decades. In 1953, the number one song was Patti Page’s How Much Is…
Australia has one of the highest youth suicide rates among the world’s developed nations, with 27.3 out of 100,000 Australian males aged 15 to 24…
A popular teaching has been heard in the church over the last few decades which encourages Christians to believe they should be rich and prosperous.…
One never ceases to be amazed at the things that will turn up in the daily newspapers. A recent newspaper account of a new study…
One never ceases to be amazed at the things that will turn up in the daily newspapers. A recent newspaper account of a new study…
Jesus told the early disciples that following him would not always be easy: “You will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death,…
Even in our biblically illiterate culture there is one verse which non-believers know and know very well: “Judge not, or you too will be judged”…
Robert Nisbet once remarked that environmentalism has become the third great redemptive movement in human history, following Christianity and Marxism. Indeed it already has its…
These are not good days for our children. Most adults can simply compare their own childhoods with those of today’s young people to see that…
Although Australia is in many ways a thoroughly secular nation, it is interesting to note how biblical literacy comes to the fore when issues of…
A new Federal report has been released which puts marriage back on the public policy agenda. The report, To Have and To Hold: Strategies to…
Multnomah Books, 1994. “Two very sacred and fundamental components of our lives are under attack from our culture,” writes Farrar: our faith and our families.…
The author of a recent piece in a conservative journal on the lndustrial Revolution provides a negative view of the period. But he is certainly…
The case of the Ringwood mother who was found guilty of assault has again opened up the debate about spanking in particular and corporal punishment…
With over $1.5 billion a year spent on child care by Australian Governments, child care is big business. And with over 600,000 children involved, it…
While flicking through our local community newspaper recently, I came across two ads which struck my attention. Both ads were for divorce services. One ad…
There is a new shoot-em-up sci-fi thriller which has hit the big screen. Starship Troopers is another good guys (earthlings in the future) versus bad guys…
A radical thought came to me recently. It happened as I was reading a biography of Charles Wesley, and was blessed by the exciting accounts…
One if the missing ingredients of modern Christian life is that of church discipline. We have all but lost the New Testament understanding of discipline…