InterVarsity Press, 2005. This book is about how a good concept – tolerance – has been redefined and subverted by the secular left. Tolerance, properly…
In the busyness of fighting the many skirmishes in the culture wars, be it the stem cell debate, the battle over marriage and family, the…
Ignatius Press, 2005. Existentialism was a leading expression of Western philosophy in the 20th century. And Jean-Paul Sartre was a major figure in the existentialist…
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002. Roger Scruton is one of England’s best conservative writers and philosophers. He is the author of several important volumes, and for…
Blackwell, 2005. If T.H. Huxley was “Darwin’s bulldog” just over a century ago, surely Richard Dawkins would be Darwin’s pit bull terrier today. A leading…
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…
In 1984 the American social commentator Richard John Neuhaus wrote an incisive book entitled The Naked Public Square. In it he argued that in the…
Spence, 2001. We live in an age where virtues have become vices, and vices have become virtues. What most societies shuttered at just decades ago…
Australian Federation of Right to Life Associations, 2003. Recent developments in medical technology, the increasing secularization of society, and the return of eugenics have combined…
Twenty years ago the term Political Correctness was not found in any standard dictionary. Now both the term, and examples of it, are ubiquitous. The…
An interesting article/interview with Peter Singer appeared in the December 1 Sunday Age. Entitled, “In a softer light,” the sympathetic article tried to portray the…
InterVarsity Press, 2002. Peter Kreeft is a respected philosophy professor at Boston College. He has written many influential books, and is in many ways a…
Eerdmans, 2001. In the past few decades the advances in bio-technology and genetics have been astounding. The scientific and technical breakthroughs have far out-stripped our…
There exists an awful lot of conceptual confusion and definitional inexactitude concerning Christianity in general and fundamentalism in particular. Mind you, I’m speaking about the…
Although Australia is in many ways a thoroughly secular nation, it is interesting to note how biblical literacy comes to the fore when issues of…
In the brave new world of the 1990s, a number of emerging technological possibilities pose a threat to the family unit. The ability to ascertain…
Several recent newspaper articles underscore the intellectual confusion that is so rampant in our society. Writing in the Melbourne Herald Sun, for example, a staff…
As one who has grown up in, and been a part of, the counter-culture of the 60’s and 70’s, I want to examine the way…
Fontana Press, 1993. When Edwin Abbott wrote his turn-of-the-century minor classic, Flatland, he introduced us to a two-dimensional land where all activity was lived out…