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…
Without question there is no more beautiful, loving and wonderful person to have walked the earth than Jesus Christ. He is known even by his…
When a politician today talks about the importance of the Bible, you can expect there to be a swift and stern reaction. Federal Opposition leader…
Why is it that those who seem to know the least about biblical Christianity will often pontificate so freely on the subject? It becomes clear…
Very few people – at least Westerners – would be unaware of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man just found guilty of kidnapping, rape, murder and…
Reformation Trust, 2007. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Perhaps the most crucial and basic of Christian doctrines also happens to be the most neglected…
Jesus once said that a prophet is without honour, except in his own country. One of the greatest Australian prophets of the past century has…
Crossway Books, 2008. (Available in Australia at Koorong books) William Lane Craig is one of the premier evangelical apologists around. He is amply qualified to…
For some years now, each new Christmas season is greeted with further outrages and attacks. There are all the usual incidents: banning nativity scenes, refusing…
As the saying goes, “Jaw jaw is better than war war.” Thus getting warring factions together to talk through their differences instead of killing one…
It is amazing, when you think about it, that a major newspaper like the Melbourne Age actually pays people to do little more than write…
In the best-selling diatribe by Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, the evangelist for atheism argues that people who claim to believe in God are deluded.…
Is the Kingdom of God present or future? If Jesus defeated Satan at Calvary, why is there still suffering and sin? Why aren’t more people…
What is the responsibility of believers to social need? Should churches be involved in various works of social service? Is the government alone to be…
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,…
Tom Cruise, well-known proponent of Scientology, has been compared to Christ by the current Church of Scientology leader, David Miscavige. He believes the two share…
David Wells is one of our more perceptive commentators on church and culture. In his newest book he looks at modernism, postmodernism, and the crisis in Evangelicalism. An excellent commentary on church trends.
This volume does a good job of showing the various shortcomings of science, and debunking the myth of the neutrality of science.
There are many problems with vilification legislation, especially when applied to religion. I have documented ten such problems in my paper, The Problem with Vilification…