Multnomah Publishers, 2004. Dr James Dobson is head of the Christian-based Focus on the Family in the USA. It is probably the largest and most…
Basic Books, 2004. All over the world birthrates are falling. This may be most evident in the Western world, but falling fertility rates are found…
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,…
Encounter Books, 2004. It might seem odd to have to pen a book like this, but we live in odd times. Thus a book like…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Metropolitan Books, 2001. Motherhood is the most under-valued job in the Western world today, argues economics journalist Ann Crittenden. While everyone may give lip service…
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…
PublicAffairs, 2002. As in Australia and other Western nations, the United States has been involved in a lengthy and divisive debate concerning the new reproductive…
When I was a new Christian, reading through the New Testament for the first time, I was quite fascinated with – and frightened by – …
Norton, 2002. In this volume Middle East expert Daniel Pipes looks at the changing world since September 11. While some of the essays here were…
Fatherlessness is a growing problem in the Western world. Whether caused by divorce and broken families, or by deliberate single parenting, more and more children…
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…
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.…
Thirty years ago American Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a report called “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action”. In it he wrote these…
The first line of Carl F. H. Henry’s six-volume, 3,000 page work, God, Revelation and Authority says this: “No fact of contemporary Western life is…
Some statistics on the AIDS crisis, as of November 1998: -In 1998 there was a 10 per cent increase in the number of people with…
Australia has one of the highest youth suicide rates among the world’s developed nations, with 27.3 out of 100,000 Australian males aged 15 to 24…