Time was when a man could be praised for having discriminating tastes. It was a mark of being able to make fine differentiations. Discernment, judgment…
In his famous work of fiction, The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky observed, through his character Smerdyakov, “For if there’s no everlasting God, there’s no such thing…
Last week a peak UN body approved a motion by Islamic nations, declaring that Muslims be protected from criticism of their religion. The U.N. Human…
The Rudd government has just announced that it has overturned the ban on foreign aid funds going to abortion services. Following in the wake of…
Historian Arnold Toynbee once said “Civilizations die from suicide, not murder”. I don’t think there is much debate about that. There might be some debate…
Crossway, 2008. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) There was a time when it was a virtue to be known as discerning and discriminating. That was…
Keeping up with cultural decline and mental erosion has now become a full time occupation. Simply listing all the cases of Political Correctness would fill…
By now most people would have seen this news item of interest: “NZ priest marries boyfriend”. According to the press accounts, the Kiwi priest wed…
It is to GK Chesterton that we attribute the line, “When a man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing. He…
Eerdmans, 2008. (Available in Australia from Koorong books) David Wells has trained his incisive intellect on the big issues of theology, the life of the…
You know we have really entered a moral freefall when it actually appears reasonable to call black white, and white black; when we manage to…
For most of human history people have accepted the fact that life is “nasty, poor, brutish, and short”, to use Hobbes’s phrase. But advances in…
Truth hurts. That is, it is hurtful to those who want to deny the truth, distort the truth or cover up the truth. The best…
We live in a culture that is biblically illiterate. Most people have no or very little idea of what is actually in the Bible. Unfortunately,…
Doubleday, 2006. It is no surprise that so many home burglaries take place at night. Because the home owners are asleep, the defence and protection…
If you want to know what’s wrong with the West, a good way to begin is simply to watch a bit of so-called Reality TV.…
March 25, 2007 marks a very important anniversary. Two hundred years ago the British Parliament voted to abolish slavery, and on that date the Abolition…
Regnery, 2006. This is a very important book. Its analysis of geo-political conditions is top rate, and its assessment of the crisis we are in…
Atheism has been around, in various forms, for some time now. At the risk of oversimplification, one can speak of three phases or periods of…
Regnery, 2003. How can someone possibly manage to fill a 400-page book with example after example of Christians being persecuted in the United States? Only…