I was asked recently for my thoughts on a Melbourne Age article about homosexuals in the church. It had to do with the Anglican Church…
America is usually regarded as the home of the biggest and the best. Well, the biggest, at any rate. So it should come as no…
William Wilberforce is rightly remembered as the man who helped set the slaves free. The evangelical Christian and politician is especially honoured this year, since…
Jossey-Bass, 2007. Available from Koorong Books in Australia. Dick Staub does not like what he sees. Nor should we. Much of the Western world is…
We live in an age in which taking a strong stand for anything is frowned upon. About the only thing many people today are willing…
Regnery, 2007. There are three worrying trends which make this book necessary. The first is the hatchet job on the term fundamentalism, which had quite…
Often the church is its own worst enemy. Sure, there is plenty of opposition and animosity towards Christianity, but sometimes those calling themselves believers can…
I confess. I am writing this article for selfish reasons. You see, anyone who is in the public spotlight to a fair degree will be…
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…
We live in a pluralistic world, with a plurality of ideas, philosophies, beliefs and religions. How are we to treat these various belief systems and…
Encounter Books, 2007. David Blankenhorn is a world authority on the institution of marriage. One of the biggest debates concerning marriage today is whether we…
How often will the social engineers use taxpayer funding to sponsor their radical agendas? How many bits of misinformation, misleading facts and out and out…
Zondervan, 2006. Available in Australia from Koorong Books. “Faith and Jesus” is the first of a four-part DVD set meant to help answer some of the…
Individuals can have tremendous influence – for good or for evil. Some people live a life of integrity, humility and service for others. Other people…
The phrase ‘righteous indignation,’ which has been around for quite some time, is meant to convey the idea of getting a bit agitated, even upset,…
On and on go the atheist wars. They are out in droves, they never sleep and they want your children. Or so it seems from…
Not bad for a get rich quick scheme: peddle some old myths, repackage and cleverly promote them, and get Oprah Winfrey to gush about it,…
Anyone involved in public debates, the blogosphere, or discussion about controversial issues in the public arena will know that it can get pretty hot out there…
If someone says they hate you and plan to kill you, it is wise to take them seriously. Unfortunately, because many did not do this…
Kingsway, 2007. This is the second book-length response to Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. Like the other volume by Alister McGrath, this one is also…