I was recently at yet another annual National Prayer Breakfast in Canberra. It has been going on for over two decades now, and I have…
All around the Western world the Christian church is under attack, and along with it, the West’s Judeo-Christian heritage. It is not just a specific…
This is a brief bibliography on some notable books on the broad area of the environment, with subsections on climate change and population matters. What…
Bioethics has to do with moral reflection on biological and biotechnological developments. Such ethical thinking is certainly needed, since biotechnology is racing ahead, often impervious…
It always amazes me how those activist groups who most go on and on about tolerance and acceptance and peace and love are often the…
Throughout history civil disobedience (that is, the public, nonviolent conscientious resistance to, or breaking of, a law deemed to be unjust) has been engaged in.…
In the West the culture of death continues to grow. And there is a connection between the culture of death and the death of Christianity.…
We are now familiar with the culture wars raging in the Western world. Battles over such things as abortion, or the institution of marriage, are…
The various battles we find ourselves continuously embroiled in – be they political, ideological, cultural or social – all finally come down to one chief…
As we commemorate the tragedy of the Islamic assault on America seven years ago, there is still much fuzzy thinking about religion and terror. A…
There are at least two clear reasons why the secular left is absolutely foaming at the mouth over Sarah Palin, John McCain’s Republican running mate.…
In less than a week the Games of the XXIX Olympiad will begin. While the world’s attention will be on the athletes, the competitions, and…
After our recent gathering of experts in Canberra for the 2020 Summit, I did not recall seeing any reports about one very pressing social problem…
A recent article by Steven Pinker, reprinted in the Age last week, tried to explain morality from an evolutionary perspective. Steven Pinker is an evolutionary…
Some of the more radical elements of the environmental movement say some pretty weird things. Some of their proposals to make us all greener seem…
Living in a democracy today is no guarantee we will live in one tomorrow. People in democracies do not always value or protect the freedoms…
Even though it is still early days yet, there have been hundreds of analyses and discussions about the Democratic swing in the recent US midterm…
Today more than ever those concerned about the meaning of personhood and the dignity of human life need to be aware of the many developments…
When an American President champions its cause, an Australian Education Minister says it should be looked into, and the cover of Time magazine treats it…
InterVarsity Press, 2002. Peter Kreeft is a respected philosophy professor at Boston College. He has written many influential books, and is in many ways a…