The Evangelical Alliance has recently released a paper entitled “Same-Sex Relationships and the Law”. The nine page document also has a five-page “Statement on Marriage…
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…
Regina Orthodox Press, 2002. (Available from Crossroad Books in Melbourne – crossroadbooks.com.au) There has been a flood of books on Islam penned in the past…
Baker, 2006. There are many differences between Islam and Christianity. One of the major differences concerns what happened to Jesus at Calvary. Did Jesus die…
It seems that the historical revisionists and terrorist appeasers are at it again. A recent Victorian textbook has made a comparison between the Crusades and…
The current debate about RU486 has resulted in a flurry of claims and counter claims over the abortion issue. It is worth examining several of…
In the busyness of fighting the many skirmishes in the culture wars, be it the stem cell debate, the battle over marriage and family, the…
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002. Roger Scruton is one of England’s best conservative writers and philosophers. He is the author of several important volumes, and for…
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…
Blackwell, 2005. If T.H. Huxley was “Darwin’s bulldog” just over a century ago, surely Richard Dawkins would be Darwin’s pit bull terrier today. A leading…
Since Joseph Wakim of the Australian Arabic Council has given us a public lecture on what Christianity is meant to be about, perhaps I can…
Presbyterian Church of Victoria, 2004. Quiz time. When was the last time you read a book on the ten commandments? Indeed, when was the last…
Regnery, 2003. It may be recalled that early on in the recent war in Iraq, an American soldier launched a grenade and small arms attack…
Encounter Books, 2002. As the Western world grows increasingly secular, the attacks on religion in general and Christianity in particular become ever more shrill and…
Eerdmans, 2002. I was in a Protestant Christian bookshop recently and was talking about this book with the store’s manager. When he learned of the…
When I was a new Christian, reading through the New Testament for the first time, I was quite fascinated with – and frightened by – …
The Melbourne Age’s regular anti-religion writer, Pamela Bone has issued another salvo against faith. Entitled “The most dangerous force in the world,” (Nov. 30), the…
A raft of new legislation is being passed throughout the Western world. These laws are called by various names, such as vilification or tolerance or…
Multnomah, 2000. There may be as many non-believers who have heard of this book as believers, thanks to its phenomenal sales. In May this year…
There are many ways to think about the recent American tragedy. One can discuss international relations and global politics. One can dissect end time prophecies.…