There are all sorts of good reasons why Christians should gravitate toward the more conservative side of politics, economics, and social thought. The case for…
“Our” ABC is nothing of the sort. Sure, we are all forced to fund it through our hard-earned tax dollars, but it is certainly not…
Back in 2005 Phyllis Chesler wrote an important volume entitled The Death of Feminism: What’s Next in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom (Palgrave Macmillan). It…
Just imagine what the response would be if I publicly told someone to go to hell. The outrage would be instant and incessant. Christians especially…
Anyone who has actually studied both Islam and Christianity knows how radically different they are to each other. It has rightly been argued that Islam…
This passage as such is not so problematic – it only becomes so when one realises what Jesus is quoting from. He seems to cite…
Historically it has always been the church and other mediating agencies which have mainly helped the poor. Only recently have expanding states significantly usurped that…
Admittedly, that has got to be one of the weirdest titles to be found – at least on my website. One does not usually associate…
Real biblical Christians should be interested in everything God made, and that includes politics. The state is a creation of God (see for example Romans…
Take any controversial issue of the day, be it abortion, the death penalty, nuclear energy, pornography, and so on, and you will make this discovery:…
Consider this headline: ?“An equal opportunity commission board member who signed a submission against same-sex marriage has resigned.” A respected doctor and community leader has…
The battle over same-sex marriage is perhaps the most momentous and far-reaching debate we face at the moment. There is very much at stake in…
It looks like the Greens and Labor are having a competition to see who can win the homosexual booby prize. They are stumbling over each…
My side did not start this fight – the other side did. But as long as they keep raining missiles down on me, my family,…
In Part One of this article I offered some general considerations as to how the Christian might approach the rather troubling imprecatory psalms. To properly…
Because we live in such a topsy-turvy world, we can’t count on anything always being safe, or be assured of any unchanging verities. In a…
“The crust of the earth is soaked with the tears of suffering.” That is how philosopher Eleonore Stump once described the problem of evil and…
If you buy the version of events from uber-atheist Christopher Hitchens, then you will believe that “religion poisons everything”. If you take his word –…
I am an evangelical. So let me for the moment confine my remarks to fellow evangelicals. If you are a non-evangelical, but want to read…
Whenever a time of crisis erupts, more than ever, there is a pressing need for individuals to take a stand, and to do so courageously.…