In the old days things were much simpler, and much more direct. In the early days of the Christian faith, pagan rulers could say, ‘Hey,…
Fear-mongering about the environment is not new. And using our classrooms to terrorise our kids about supposed environmental catastrophes is not new either. The people…
Jesus mentioned the stones speaking out when the Pharisees told his disciples to keep quiet (Luke 19:40). Someone, or something, must testify to the truth,…
It is to GK Chesterton that we attribute the line, “When a man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing. He…
What a culture prioritises tells us a lot about its moral and spiritual condition. And what it doesn’t prioritise also tells us quite a bit.…
Every once in a while I am asked what I am reading, so I usually produce a column such as this. Now for those folks…
It is early days yet for the new Rudd government, but already we have been given some pretty good indications as to where and how…
The beginning of the Constitution of the United States reads, “We the people…” The basic idea of democracy is that the people rule. Of course…
It has been rightly said that perhaps the scariest phrase one can hear is this: “Hi, we’re from the Government and we’re here to help…
There have been plenty of false prophets when it comes to doom saying about overpopulation. In the 1800s British demographer Thomas Malthus got it wrong…
Angelina Jolie has just been voted the best celebrity humanitarian of 2007. With her role as a UN goodwill ambassador she topped the Reuters poll…
There is always a fine line between getting people to take their environmental responsibilities seriously, and simply resorting to scare-mongering. The environmental movement is often…
While many Christians may be apolitical or even look down on political involvement as being somehow not very “spiritual,” the truth remains that we live…
Another global rock concert, another major “cause,” and another set of questions the politically correct are afraid to ask. This time it was Live Earth,…
Many have noted the quasi-religious status of much of the environmental movement. Many seem to have elevated concern about the environment into a full-fledged religious…
From around the time of the Enlightenment, science began usurping the role of religion. Prior to then, most people had a high regard for Christianity,…
In these secular times, religion regularly gets a bad rap. And anti-Christian bigotry especially accelerates, with most of the world’s ills, from burnt toast to…
The debate about climate change is far from over. The issues are varied and complex, and there is no clear scientific unanimity on the subject.…
As has been frequently documented, our educational institutions have by and large been captured by the ideological Left and the forces of political correctness. The…
I wrote yesterday that there is little unanimity concerning global warming and man’s role in it. Given that Al Gore’s new film, An Inconvenient Truth…