It seems that in each generation, especially the really dark ones, God raises up a prophetic voice to speak into them. It may be a…
One very significant – yet often neglected – Old Testament passage is Numbers 11:29. There Moses says this: “I wish that all the LORD’S people…
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…
Zondervan, 2009 (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Well-known Christian apologist Greg Koukl here offers a popular-level approach to defending the faith. The California-based apologist…
The march of science and the outworking of Enlightenment thinking has been a mixed bag. There has been both progress and regress during the past…
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.…
The various battles we find ourselves continuously embroiled in – be they political, ideological, cultural or social – all finally come down to one chief…
Actually this is mostly the tale of one important man. But since I have discovered many parallels with his life and my own, I will…
The dean of evangelical theologians during the post-war period, Carl F. H. Henry wrote his magnum opus, God, Revelation and Authority, between 1976 and 1983.…
About a week ago a group of American Evangelicals released a 20-page document called “An Evangelical Manifesto”. Subtitled “A Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public…
Moody, 2008. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) These two young guys are sceptical about megachurches, how-to-sermons, legalism, the effects of modernity, marketing gimmicks, and…
With all the zeal and energy of a religious crusade, the new atheists have come out in force, rattling their secular sabres. They are on…
Apologetics comes from a Greek word meaning reason or defence. It has to do with defending the Christian faith and answering objections to it. Since…
All worldviews have to wrestle with the problem of evil. New Agers, secularists, atheists and theists all must come up with some sort of account…
Baker, 2006. The role of evangelical Christianity in the public arena is a contentious and hotly debated topic. How should evangelicals engage with politics, culture…
CultureWatch is many things, but it is certainly about engaging in the culture wars we find ourselves in. Not everyone is convinced this is a…
The theological issue of the relationship between law and gospel is far too complex and has had way too much ink spilled over it for…
Apologetics seeks to do several things: present the attractiveness of the Christian faith; demonstrate the reasonableness of Christianity; and clear up misconceptions and faulty understandings…
Harper, 2005. This is a very important book. That is because this is a very important subject tackled by an important author. Indeed, Guinness is…
An interesting article/interview with Peter Singer appeared in the December 1 Sunday Age. Entitled, “In a softer light,” the sympathetic article tried to portray the…