You know we have really entered a moral freefall when it actually appears reasonable to call black white, and white black; when we manage to…
Up until quite recently, societies benefited greatly by certain institutions which in fact predated the state. Marriage and family are two institutions which have been…
Ideas have consequences, and worldviews matter. If we happen to have a bad worldview, it will lead to bad results. For example, Hitler picked up…
In the recent film, The Children of Men (based on the 1992 P.D. James novel), illegal immigrants in a futuristic UK are rounded up and…
There was a rather atrocious discussion about Jesus on Melbourne’s ABC radio on March 9, 2007. Of course silly discussions about Jesus take place all…
Political conservatism and religious conservatism tend to go together. Not always. Not completely. But there does tend to be a connection. It can be said…
Regnery, 2006. Recent events have focused the world’s attention on the religion of Islam. A lot of ink has been spilled on the subject. But…
Several recent events surely spell the end of the Australian Democrats. Three in particular come to mind: their electoral decline of the last few years;…
We live in an age that is hesitant about, or indifferent to, the use of reason, study, mental discipline and religious education. Truth is under…
“All religions are basically the same.” That mantra is often heard from the secular media and our ruling elites. For those who know little about…
An editorial in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (September 19, 2006) nicely makes the case for why the remarks recently uttered by the pope were needed.…
Agnostic and religion-basher Pamela Bone makes many claims in her opinion piece (Australian, 15 August 2006), a few of them right, most of them wrong…
Isaac Publishing, 2004. Islamic terrorism is undoubtedly one of the most urgent problems facing the world today. As such it needs to be addressed and…
Phoenix 2003. Bernard Lewis is a leading Orientalist and expert on Islam. The author of dozens of books on the subject, spanning five decades, he…
Cambridge University Press, 1988. Just over a decade ago, one could ask whether the greatest threat to Christianity in particular and Western civilisation in general…