The news of the downfall of a major Pentecostal Christian leader in Australia has most of the Christian community abuzz. And given that the story…
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…
Last month a number of leading Muslims issued the document “A Common Word Between Us and You.” The letter, delivered to world Christian leaders, was…
Heroes are in short supply nowadays. We don’t seem to have a need for them. Or we find them off-putting. Indeed, if anything, we seem…
There was an interesting piece in today’s papers, just a very brief item. It was about a poor chap in northern Vietnam who had become…
St. Martins Press, 2006. Lebanon used to be a bright spot in a very dark Middle East. It was a rare democracy with a Christian…
We are in a real war. Radical Islamists are stepping up their efforts to destroy the West, and Christians are a primary target. A number…
It is to be expected that followers of Jesus will encounter persecution, abuse and vilification. Jesus had to endure it, and he told us that…
Harvard Business School Publishing, 2006. The fact that this book is published by the Harvard Business School and the author is a professor there tells…
Regnery 2005. Blankley’s thesis is quite simple: America (and other Western nations like Australia) have an enormous amount to lose if the West does not…
Eerdmans, 2004. The issue of the relationship between men and women is a vexed and complex issue. Plenty of volumes have been written on this…
On Tuesday November 18 another scene from the culture wars was played out. The top court in the US state of Massachusetts declared that a…
Often when I make an appeal for Christian social involvement, I get some Christians who bring up various objections, most of which boil down to…
Martin Niemoller was a decorated submarine commander in WW I, an ardent nationalist and a pastor in Germany. At first he welcomed the rise to…
The Rockford Institute, 1988. “We are busily unmaking one of the proudest social achievements in the nineteenth century, which was to take married women out…