I refer here to the hyper emotionalism and cloudy thinking of way too many Christians in the case of two convicted criminals who met their…
With plenty of public discussion over a recent case of capital punishment, I have regrettably noted an incredibly high level of confusion, misinformation, illogic, and…
Does showing compassion make one a hypocrite? No, of course not – well, at least not necessarily. But I have seen far too many people…
Who, Christians? Deliberately disobeying Jesus? Yep, sadly happens all the time. We have clear commands from Jesus which we routinely ignore or disregard, and we…
The last half of James 2:13 says this: “Mercy triumphs over judgment”. This passage is not so much a difficult passage as it is one…
Ideally, controversial issues should be discussed with careful, logical assessment, with an eye to the facts, and in the case of Christians, with the biblical…
My topic here involves how we are to understand the sword – and the state’s use of it – as found in Paul’s discussion of…
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…
A common tactic of critics of Christianity (be they atheists or Muslims or whoever) is to drag up various episodes from the past and claim…
I have included this passage of Scripture in my series of difficult Bible texts not so much because it is quite difficult to grasp or…
I know: been there, done that. Back in 2001 an Australian comedy starring Billy Connolly was released: The Man Who Sued God. So the idea…
While flying airplanes into skyscrapers is one good way to kill off a lot of infidels, there are other more subtle ways in which Islam…
How are we to think of the influx of masses of Muslims into the Western world? From a Christian point of view, there are at…
I could have entitled this piece, “Let my people think” except I believe I have already used that one before. On a regular basis I…
Lenin called gullible Western supporters of communism “useful idiots”. They were utterly naive about the real nature of bloodthirsty communism, and they became terrific apologists…
Since I have written several articles about the big Islamic Peace Conference in Melbourne, asking people to pray for it and engage in some spiritual…
We live in distressing times. But given our historical amnesia, we forget that so have many other people. Indeed, history is full of desperate and…
Stealth jihad is ever active and relentlessly making inroads all around the Western world. On a regular basis we learn of new moves to implement…
We have in our society today entire groups of people who have decided that they exist to take offence at things. Not only that, but…
Believe it or not, Christians are to think critically. Now before you drag me off and stone me, let me remind you that there are…