The record of Christian history over the past two thousand years is of course a mixed bag, with so much good at times offset with…
My whirlwind trip through Europe is now at an end, with my last days being spent in the UK before heading home. While revisiting Europe…
It is quite easy to say that the West is doomed. And for good reason – it may well indeed be the case, for all…
One of the greatest weapons we have at our disposal is often not even used. We allow lies and falsehoods to go unchecked, which in…
Prayers, grief and tears continue to flow for the latest mass shooting, this time in the US state of Connecticut. With so many children involved…
It is early days yet so only tentative commentary can be offered here. But we do know this much. Last night at a midnight viewing…
Truth is not often something that gets a good run in most high school or college commencement speeches. Often we have a mix of schmaltzy,…
Let me say this boldly and bluntly: when the Anzacs died in huge numbers nearly a century ago, they did not do it so that…
If aliens came to earth and surveyed the scene in the contemporary Western world, they would have to ask themselves, “Why is the West so…
One very significant – yet often neglected – Old Testament passage is Numbers 11:29. There Moses says this: “I wish that all the LORD’S people…
Of all the countries I have monitored over the past few years, Britain is certainly at the top of my list. It seems on a…
The media today is abuzz with the shocking case of yet more child-on-child violence in the UK. Reminiscent of the James Bulger case, two schoolboys…
Historian Arnold Toynbee once said “Civilizations die from suicide, not murder”. I don’t think there is much debate about that. There might be some debate…
A lot of thought has gone into human mortality, and how we can prolong life. Less thought has gone into the question of why nations…
Fontana Press, 1993. When Edwin Abbott wrote his turn-of-the-century minor classic, Flatland, he introduced us to a two-dimensional land where all activity was lived out…
Macmillan, 1993. In 1978 when Alexander Solzhenitsyn delivered his now famous Harvard University commencement address, he both challenged and enraged his student audience. While denouncing…