Now that the Winter Olympics are on, one thing that has struck me is what gross iniquities and inequalities appear to be going on there…
Want to be a first-rate Olympic athlete? You gotta work at it and practice incessantly. Want to be the best pianist around? You have to…
OK, so Christmas is coming up, and what better gifts are there than books? And theological books have to be pretty high on the list…
One of the great dangers of the Christian life is presumption. Specifically, it is always dangerous to presume that one is in fact a genuine…
OK, so this article is not entirely about this Hollywood power and glamour couple, but I did get your attention right? So now that I…
One major mistake of some believers in general, and the prosperity gospel in particular, is to equate a person’s economic and material standing with his…
OK, it is not quite Christmas yet, but you do need to get presents – for yourself or others. And there is nothing better than…
With 39 Old Testament books, and numerous new commentaries pouring off the press each year, it is hard to keep up with the latest and…
This is another in an irregular series on new books worth noting – this time just on theology and biblical studies. Of course hundreds of…
For years now when asked what I thought to be the main task of the church – revival or reformation – I have always answered:…
Barack Obama has been in office for just one year, but already it is beginning to look like he may be a one-term wonder. He…
It would be rather easy – and appropriate – for me to change the name of my website from CultureWatch to PersecutionWatch. To watch Western…
There are all sorts of reasons why I should not be writing this article. First, I will not only flummox most non-believers looking at this…
Thomas Nelson, 2007. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) It is common today to question not only what we know about Jesus, but how we…
The broad issue of the relationship between science and faith, and the more particular issue of the debate over creation and evolution are of course…
The devotees of Dawkins are working overtime to promote their militant anti-theism. The latest full-frontal assault comes from Australian playwright David Williamson. Writing in the…
In the past several years many thousands of books have been published. Hundreds of those are important. Dozens are quite significant, at least from a…