The public arena is not neutral, with rival religions competing for hegemony: We are told – at least in theory – that in the West…
Some will ignore the evidence even when it stares them in the face: When folks are captivated by particular ideologies and belief systems, and are…
This important speech defending religious liberty is a must read: All over the West there is a major assault on religious freedom. It takes many…
There was a somewhat unhelpful article in the National Review recently entitled “Why Baptists Should Support Muslims’ Right to Build Mosques.” The link to it…
A High Court ruling has declared that government funding of the school chaplaincy program is invalid according to the Australian constitution. This ruling raises many…
The uproar over religious education in schools is reaching fever pitch, with all the usual suspects (the ABC, the Age, etc.) going ballistic as they…
I have written before about the new development known as Chrislam in which some misguided Christians believe they can somehow combine the two religions (Christianity…
This week the Parliament of the World’s Religions (PWR) meets in Melbourne. Thousands of delegates from all over the world are expected to attend this…
These are not easy days for atheists. Not only is their worldview a minority viewpoint, and a relatively recent one at that, but it may…
It is not hard to produce solid reasons as to why our school system is in need of a major overhaul. On a daily basis…
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…
Activists who push for things like homosexual “marriage” routinely rely on falsehoods, sloppy thinking, emotionalism, and the endless promotion of myths. And one of the…
Sometimes the moonbattery from the secular humanists, the sexual revolutionaries, and the social activists comes in so fast and so furiously, that dealing with each…
InterVarsity Press, 2006. We are told that religion and politics don’t mix. But it is often the irreligious who make such claims. Secularists do not…
The devotees of Dawkins are working overtime to promote their militant anti-theism. The latest full-frontal assault comes from Australian playwright David Williamson. Writing in the…
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…
In the March 29 Melbourne Age there appeared an article by Peter Singer entitled “Why we should ignore the Catholic Church on stem cells”. In…
What we can learn from this great thinker: We are all impacted by others for good or ill. Some are quite aware of this while…
Should believers bury their dead only? While many believers may never have given this a passing thought, some others might think quite a lot about…
A century ago this important work appeared: OK, I am a bit off by a few weeks, or a few months, but we can still…