There is perhaps no greater battleground than that of the education arena. He who can educate (or indoctrinate) our children will win not only our…
Thirty years ago the American Christian musician, singer, songwriter and evangelist Keith Green died in a tragic airplane crash, along with two of his children.…
A number of different pro-life things have crossed my path recently so I just want to throw them together here in a rather haphazard fashion,…
Given the miserable state of so much of the world, it seems that most people do not really care very much. Apathy and indifference reign,…
OK, it is the middle of the year, so it is not much good speaking about New Year’s resolutions. But it seems to me that…
P&R, 2012. I have worked with young people, but I am not a youth pastor or a youth worker. However I have often stated that…
There are all sorts of contest shows on television now, where a whole bunch of people compete for the prize of top spot. These include…
Consider this headline to an opinion piece in today’s Age: “Religious classes in state schools must be about teaching, not preaching”. The Melbourne academic also…
We live in a world where there are very few real heroes or positive role models. Hardly anyone today comes to mind of whom I…
Every single one of us either worships the one, true, living God, or we worship something else. It is that simple. Jesus once said that…
I became a Christian in mid-1971, the same time that a groundbreaking work appeared. Saul Alinsky’s influential Rules for Radicals came out then, so I…
Lessons from what? Or who? OK, so I have once again caught many of you off guard – and I am referring to Christians here.…
A bit of my feminist side must be coming to the fore here, all because of three episodes in the past 24 hours. All have…
The uproar over religious education in schools is reaching fever pitch, with all the usual suspects (the ABC, the Age, etc.) going ballistic as they…
SaltRiver, 2010. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) In this illuminating and moving volume we get an inside look at the world of Planned Parenthood,…
Anyone with a passion for Christ and his work will be less than thrilled with how his church is going about its affairs. While many…
Hollywood has a big problem. It is constantly facing a major dilemma involving two well-established facts. Fact number one: The denizens of Hollywood are overwhelmingly…
It is perfectly predictable: have a politician from the conservative side of politics make a quite sensible remark about family issues, and the secular left…
Baker, 2009. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) A. W. Tozer once rightly said, “Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aid to the life…
An ad in a church bulletin recently caught my attention. It was advertising an upcoming ‘Self-Esteem Seminar’. Nothing unusual about that. There must be zillions…