The 37 million cheaters caught out by a hacked adultery website have a lot to worry about at the moment. There they thought they could…
The case against legalised euthanasia needs to be spelled out in detail. This is especially urgent since there seems to be so much moral and…
There are many myths about Islam being circulated, not just by Muslim apologists but by Western dhimmis. Take for example the idea that science, culture,…
ISI, 2014. There are some authors you know will not disappoint, and you so very eagerly await their next volume. Historian and sociologist of religion…
The words Sodom and Gomorrah have become standard terms in everyday conversation, even though referring to events which occurred many thousands of years ago. What…
So how should conservatives think about homosexual marriage? Lest it be thought that this is a no brainer, bear in mind that part of the…
We live in an age of ever escalating rights’ claims, but with ever decreasing emphasis on responsibility and obligation. Every day new claims to rights…
Way back in 1956 Harvard sociologist Pitirim Sorokin wrote an important volume called The American Sex Revolution. In it the noted academic warned of the…
In my back yard – and in many others – there is an ongoing battle with Dutch elm disease. These little varmints (elm bark beetles)…
Thomas Nelson, 2011. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) The broad-brush thesis of this book is this: without the Judeo-Christian worldview, there would be no…
With five days of anarchy on the streets, buildings burning, streets unsafe, looters running amok, and already a billion pounds in damages, it is not…
Islam is a political faith. It sees no separation between the sacred and the secular. Everything is religious, and everything is political. Westerners have a…
Palliative care is one of the great overlooked issues in the euthanasia debate. What the terminally ill want and need is pain relief, not an…
If modernism and secularisation have convinced pagans of God’s nonexistence, they have convinced many Christians of God’s manageability. That is, God has become less of…
With a newly elected Green MP, and four more Green Senators set to join the existing five in July, the nation and the media are…
George Orwell once said, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Quite so. It has always been a…
A core feature of the Enlightenment project was the twin concepts of optimism and progress. Modernism’s infatuation with science led to the idea that human…
We have plenty of examples of green Chicken Littles insisting that the sky is falling. The trouble is, when we listen to them, heed their…
This is another in my irregular series on notable books that you should be aware of. There is always an endless supply of new books…
Bioethics has to do with moral reflection on biological and biotechnological developments. Such ethical thinking is certainly needed, since biotechnology is racing ahead, often impervious…