Capital punishment is certainly one hotly contested ethical issue. It draws passionate responses from all sides. Indeed, often there can be far more heat than…
In Part One of this article I looked at three frequently-heard objections to the death penalty. Here I will examine three more. In each of…
While libertarians like Ron Paul want to legalise prostitution, those who have actually been involved with this sordid trade know just how wretched it is,…
Two recent news items tell us a lot about Australians and what they consider to be important. Indeed, what we spend heaps of money on…
In the Western world we have abandoned belief in God, so with that goes a number of other long-standing beliefs. One is the concept of…
I think it is safe to say that there are probably as many Catholics who are unaware of what their own church teaches on a…
A common argument made by pacifists and/or those who really do not know their Bibles very well is that all killing is wrong because it…
For both religious and non-religious reasons, history is vitally important, and it is imperative that we do not forget the lessons of history. As the…
It is not just in the futurist, dystopian novels such as Brave New World and 1984 that the totalist state seeks to punish thoughts as…
This week the Parliament of the World’s Religions (PWR) meets in Melbourne. Thousands of delegates from all over the world are expected to attend this…
I have been utterly amazed to discover that a major newspaper recently carried an opinion piece by a Muslim spokesman advocating polygamy in Australia. If…
Christians know that in this world they will suffer persecution and tribulation. Jesus promised this would happen to all true followers of his. But one…
There was a lead letter in today’s Melbourne Age which caught my attention. It is a letter so very typical of the Age. The newspaper…
The unfortunate remarks made by the Archbishop of Canterbury recently were fairly widely condemned, and rightly so. However, there were some individuals who sought to…
More than once I have been involved in debates with fellow believers over the broad issue of God’s forgiveness and what that entails. More specifically,…
The recent squabble within Labor Party ranks as to whether the Bali bombers should be executed raises the old issue of capital punishment, and the…
As has already happened in Western Europe and Canada, and some American states, the US as a nation is now on the verge of passing “hate-crime”…
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…
Why is it that on a daily basis we seem to hear of outlandish crimes, and equally outlandish sentences handed out by our courts? Why…
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…