There is a lot of clouded thinking on the issue of stem cell research. A good case in point is an editorial in today’s Australian…
Sometimes you read something that really gets your juices flowing. An article in yesterday’s Sunday Herald Sun is a case in point. The author made…
Labor has announced that it wants ISPs to be responsible for blocking Internet porn, especially to our children. All the media is carrying the story…
I have had a long standing concern for our children, and how certain activist groups are targeting them. And I have long held that the…
The abortion drug RU486 has caused quite a stir lately. With so much debate on the issue, the Federal Government recently held a public inquiry…
Zondervan, 2004. (Formerly entitled, Under the Influence, 2001). It is common today for the church to be on the receiving end of much criticism. The…
The issues of cloning in general and stem cell research in particular have swamped the media during the past several years. As in earlier debates…
The Victorian Government is currently holding a public inquiry as to whether a Charter of Human Rights (or a Bill of Human Rights) should be…
I just returned from the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in Melbourne, where the two Christian pastors have been found guilty of vilifying Muslims. The…
On Friday December 17 two Christian pastors were found guilty of vilifying Muslims. The decision, handed down in Melbourne, could mark the beginning of the…
The Age is not usually known as a journal of theological opinion. Thus one is curious as to why it featured Nicholas Kristof’s piece on…
Spence Publishing, 2004 The thesis of this book is simple: women can have it all, but not necessarily at the same time. That is, a…
Basic Books, 2003. This volume very nicely brings together four broad themes into one focused discussion. The nature of radical Islam, the threat of terrorism,…
The steady march of those who seek to undermine pro-family and pro-life values continues unabated. Various activist groups are making great headway in the face…
Mark Latham is partly right: there is a parenting crisis, but not exactly of the sort he envisages. Yes, children do seem to be more…
The Greens, along with the Democrats, are among the most supportive of the homosexual agenda, with Labor not far behind. Thus religious folk in general,…
A Latham-led government would introduce sweeping changes to give homosexuals special rights and privileges, according to Robert McClelland, the former shadow attorney-general. The Labor pledge…
Since a number of Australian states are currently looking at granting special rights to homosexuals, including adoption rights, and given some recent overseas victories for…
In late May the Federal Labor spokeswoman on children and youth, Nicola Roxon, introduced a child protection Bill into Parliament. The Bill, entitled A Better…
Eerdmans, 2003. How have the forces of modernization and globalization impacted on the institutions of marriage and family? Is the decline of marriage in the…