Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 2004. For two decades this book has well served the evangelical community as a basic textbook in ethics. First published in…
Ivan R. Dee, 2004. World depopulation has become the most important, and alarming, new demographic trend to emerge in the past few decades. While the…
Spence Publishing, 2003. This is a revision and expansion of his earlier work of 1999. In it he brings up to date recent developments in…
InterVarsity Press, 2004. The title of this collection of essays is both a good summary of the book and an important warning as to where…
Basic Books, 2004. All over the world birthrates are falling. This may be most evident in the Western world, but falling fertility rates are found…
In the culture wars, fair fights are hard to come by. Sometimes the odds are so stacked against you, that you hardly feel like wading…
That we live in a culture of death is now apparent to even the most casual social observers. Whether the issue is abortion, euthanasia, infanticide,…
Eerdmans, 2002. “There is a solid moral and practical basis for the laws against assisted suicide that now exist,” argues the author. This brief volume…
An interesting article/interview with Peter Singer appeared in the December 1 Sunday Age. Entitled, “In a softer light,” the sympathetic article tried to portray the…
InterVarsity Press, 2002. “Since neither a newborn human infant nor a fish is a person, the wrongness of killing such beings is not as great…
Encounter Books, 2002. The rapid growth in biotechnology has seen a corresponding growth in bioethics. Unfortunately, however, many bio-ethicists have become handmaidens to Big Biotech.…
Eerdmans, 2000. Bio-ethics is a new and burgeoning field, affecting all of us. Issues like human cloning, genetic engineering, assisted reproductive technologies, genetically modified foods,…
In the March 29 Melbourne Age there appeared an article by Peter Singer entitled “Why we should ignore the Catholic Church on stem cells”. In…
In the last few months they have come out in favour of legalising drugs, X-rated videos, surrogacy and euthanasia. They have recently called for accepting…
Christians both within and without the Australian Christian Churches are excited and encouraged about the formation of the ACC. As one who writes from outside…
While in Canberra recently, I had time to stroll into the local ABC Shop. Much of the content of these shops, of course, can be…
Human Life International, 1997. Human Life International has done us all a real service in publishing this book. This is a comprehensive, up-to date reference…
Organisations concerned about over-population seem to have their views presented in the media quite often. They regularly appear in the press expressing fears about over-crowding…
Some statistics on the AIDS crisis, as of November 1998: -In 1998 there was a 10 per cent increase in the number of people with…
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…