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…
Chariot Victor 1998. Although this book is a few years old, and deals with the American scene, it is still quite a helpful resource on…
Spence, 2003. Like Whittaker Chambers before him, David Horowitz must have thought he was abandoning the winning side for the losing side, when he embraced…
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…
The steady march of those who seek to undermine pro-family and pro-life values continues unabated. Various activist groups are making great headway in the face…
Regnery, 2003. It may be recalled that early on in the recent war in Iraq, an American soldier launched a grenade and small arms attack…
The Greens, along with the Democrats, are among the most supportive of the homosexual agenda, with Labor not far behind. Thus religious folk in general,…
On Tuesday November 18 another scene from the culture wars was played out. The top court in the US state of Massachusetts declared that a…
I want to mention two films I have seen on television recently. How much you relate to what I am going to say will depend…
Paraclete Press, 1999. It is the stuff of every parent’s nightmare: the shrill scream, the loud screeching brakes, the heart pounding as you run out…
Broadman and Holman, 2003. Democracy is about balancing the needs and interests of the majority with those of the minority (or minorities). It is a…
Three guesses as to who said the following: “Even in purely nonreligious terms, homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty and, in the words…
Eerdmans, 2002. I was in a Protestant Christian bookshop recently and was talking about this book with the store’s manager. When he learned of 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…
Baker Books, 1993, 2002. Norman Geisler is one of America’s leading Christian apologists. He is also one of the most prolific, with well over sixty…
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…
Tyndale House, 2001. As the days grow darker and it appears that the Christian faith is taking a beating in many parts of the world,…
Strand Publishing 2001. There are two things that can safely be said about Fred Nile. One, most Australians have heard about him. Two, most of…
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…