We are getting glimpses of the future, and it is not looking too good. We are seeing how radical political agendas are being implemented throughout…
The mainstreaming of sleaze and porn has been going on for some time now. As is often the case, it involves little, gradual, and often…
In the minds of many, there are no more scarier words than these: “Hi, we’re from the government and we’re here to help you”. Patronising…
Recent headlines have made the suggestion that marriage is on the way out, with alternative relationship arrangements becoming the norm. While such announcements often have…
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…
The current conflict in southern Lebanon raises a number of issues. Moral and political clarity is needed to understand what the fighting is really all…
In 1994 Mark Noll wrote an important book entitled The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans). In it he argued that the scandal of the…
Ivan R. Dee, 2003. Subtitled Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age, this book features a number of incisive essays on the perils and pitfalls…
Lifeline Press, 2002. Epidemic may not be too strong of a word to describe the crisis in teen sexuality we face in the Western world.…
The recent remarks by Health Minister Tony Abbott concerning promiscuity and abortion have triggered heated reactions from all the usual suspects: the feminists, the sex…
An extremely revealing and disturbing television documentary was aired on America’s Public Broadcasting System in February of last year. Entitled The Merchants of Cool, the…
Australia has one of the highest youth suicide rates among the world’s developed nations, with 27.3 out of 100,000 Australian males aged 15 to 24…
These are not good days for our children. Most adults can simply compare their own childhoods with those of today’s young people to see that…
“It is children’s right to be children, to enjoy the pleasures of a childhood. . . . In the end, a childhood is the most…
The West Australian Labor Opposition has called for the establishment of a children’s rights body. Various elements have been proposed, including a children’s advocate, a…
The Australian Education Union has just proposed that AIDS and sex education classes become compulsory from the earliest years of primary school. It wants homosexuality…
Harvest House Press, 1990. “In our time,” wrote George Orwell, “political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuation…