In 1994 Mark Noll wrote an important book entitled The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans). In it he argued that the scandal of the…
Blackwell, 2005. If T.H. Huxley was “Darwin’s bulldog” just over a century ago, surely Richard Dawkins would be Darwin’s pit bull terrier today. A leading…
Zondervan Publishing, 2004. Lee Strobel is an investigative journalist and a former atheist. When he started digging into the truth claims of Christianity, he found…
While we all shudder at the destruction wrought by the tsunami, we all can applaud the generosity of spirit and compassion that has poured out…
Since Joseph Wakim of the Australian Arabic Council has given us a public lecture on what Christianity is meant to be about, perhaps I can…
Phoenix 2003. Bernard Lewis is a leading Orientalist and expert on Islam. The author of dozens of books on the subject, spanning five decades, he…
There are many problems with vilification legislation, especially when applied to religion. I have documented ten such problems in my paper, The Problem with Vilification…
If you have seen the front page of this morning’s Sunday Herald Sun, you know of the story of a 14-year-old boy who has won…
Spence, 2003. Like Whittaker Chambers before him, David Horowitz must have thought he was abandoning the winning side for the losing side, when he embraced…
Regnery, 2003. It may be recalled that early on in the recent war in Iraq, an American soldier launched a grenade and small arms attack…
Two years ago on this day the Herald Sun featured an opinion piece by Andrew Bolt entitled, “Even heathens can learn from a man who…
When I was a new Christian, reading through the New Testament for the first time, I was quite fascinated with – and frightened by – …
The Melbourne Age’s regular anti-religion writer, Pamela Bone has issued another salvo against faith. Entitled “The most dangerous force in the world,” (Nov. 30), 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…
There are some fundamental differences between Islam and Christianity. For example, it could be argued that if a Christian kills a non-Christian in the name…
Tyndale House, 2001. As the days grow darker and it appears that the Christian faith is taking a beating in many parts of the world,…
A raft of new legislation is being passed throughout the Western world. These laws are called by various names, such as vilification or tolerance or…
Eerdmans, 2001. When one considers that the institutions of marriage and family were the first ordained by God, preceding even the State or the Church,…
Lime Grove House Publishing, 2001. This volume is about the Harry Potter phenomenon and how concerned parents should respond. With four volumes in the series…
In any number of social causes, extremism often enters the debate, with the result that truth and common sense get trampled on along the way.…