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Sex Cults and Killer Cults: Now and Then

Mar 1, 2019

There is not much new under the sun as the writer of Ecclesiastes reminds us, and a basic knowledge of the past 2000 years of church history can help us quite a lot, especially to help us avoid past mistakes.

How the West Was Won – and Lost

Feb 28, 2019

In 1890 William Booth, the English minister and founder of the Salvation Army, wrote a book called In Darkest England and the Way Out. It was sort of a juxtaposition to books about those Christians going into deepest, darkest

You Can’t Be a Christian Marxist (Though Plenty Have Tried)

Feb 27, 2019

In an age where reason and logic are not exactly the flavour of the month, sloppy thinking abounds. Public discourse has taken a big hit with plenty of talking heads offering us just plain nonsense. They can throw out utterly

Defending Faith in an Anti-Faith Age

Feb 25, 2019

OK, I admit it: my title is actually somewhat inaccurate. You see, it depends on what one means by the word “faith”. If we use the term in a more general sense of having a commitment, or a mental adherence,

To Protect Our Culture We Must Protect Our Children

Feb 22, 2019

Some 2000 years ago the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder very wisely said this: “What we do to our children, they will do to society.” In a very similar vein Karl Menninger much more recently put it this way: “What’s

Faith, Rationality, and the Limits of Science

Feb 21, 2019

While I am not a scientist, I have long been a keen student of philosophy, including the philosophy of science. And like all other types of philosophy – political philosophy, moral philosophy, etc – there are various worldview commitments that

On Dealing With Argumentative and Fuzzy-Thinking Christians

Feb 18, 2019

The number of believers who think they are being biblical but actually are nowhere near it always astounds me. I come across so many who obviously know very little about what the Bible in fact teaches, and instead have soaked

Should I Still Read His Books (Or Listen To His Music)?

Feb 16, 2019

Huh? That Bill guy sure comes up with some rather bizarre titles. But there is in fact a purpose in a piece like this, and for the Christian it has some practical and pastoral implications. It has to do with

Are You Growing Harder or Softer? The Need for Spiritual Inventory

Feb 14, 2019

Most businesses have an annual stocktake. An inventory is required to see just what physical stock is there, what condition it is in, and so on. I used to work at a Christian ministry which had a whole lot of

Bible Study Helps: Deuteronomy

Feb 13, 2019

All sixty-six books of the Bible are vitally important reading for the Christian of course, and in this series I have looked at all of them. But I must say that some books are so very important that they really

The Mercy of God

Feb 12, 2019

All of God’s attributes are wonderful, incredible, adorable, phenomenal, and glorious. But so often I have to meditate on the matchless grace of God – certainly when I look at my own life. How patient, gracious and merciful God has

On Burqa Bans

Feb 11, 2019

Should Western societies ban the burqa? A number already have (such as Denmark, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France), and a number of others continue to debate this issue. There are legitimate concerns about the burqa, so such debates are

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Sex Cults and Killer Cults: Now and Then

How the West Was Won – and Lost

You Can’t Be a Christian Marxist (Though Plenty Have Tried)

Defending Faith in an Anti-Faith Age

Faith, Rationality, and the Limits of Science

On Dealing With Argumentative and Fuzzy-Thinking Christians

Should I Still Read His Books (Or Listen To His Music)?

Are You Growing Harder or Softer? The Need for Spiritual Inventory

Bible Study Helps: Deuteronomy

The Mercy of God

On Burqa Bans

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