December 1 is World AIDS Day. This is a worthy cause no doubt. But in so much of the Western world AIDS has in effect…
Thomas Nelson, 2011. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) The broad-brush thesis of this book is this: without the Judeo-Christian worldview, there would be no…
Back in June 2009 President Obama gave a speech in Cairo. In it he said, “I consider it part of my responsibility as President of…
The Christian’s relationship to the surrounding culture can take many different forms, but for simplicity’s sake I would like to argue that there are basically…
The Islamification of the UK and Europe is well under way. Creeping sharia continues unabated, and the indicators of this transformation are everywhere to be…
H.G. Wells could write about The War of the Worlds, in which Martians and earthlings battled for supremacy. But the real battles today really come…
Encounter Books, 2010. In the West we are involved in a war of worldviews. On the one side is the Judeo-Christian worldview. Opposed to it…
In terms of amazing techniques, stunning visual imagery, and incredible special effects, Avatar is certainly a winner. While the blockbuster film may be breaking box…
Very soon the Parliament of the World’s Religions will meet here in Melbourne. The week-long event (Dec. 3-9) will be attended by many thousands of…
We live in very dark times. This website provides hundreds of examples of the gathering gloom which is overtaking much of the Western world. As…
We are now familiar with the culture wars raging in the Western world. Battles over such things as abortion, or the institution of marriage, are…
Modern man is in a bad way. Everywhere we see people in the modern Western world in crisis and chaos. The signs of disintegration and…
Crown, 2005. Since the 1960s, the Western world has embarked upon a novel and large scale social experiment: the demolition of marriage and the elevation…
Hollywood often cranks out films which are far from friendly toward the free market. The 1987 Wall Street (with the memorable Michael Douglas line, “Greed…
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…
David Wells is one of our more perceptive commentators on church and culture. In his newest book he looks at modernism, postmodernism, and the crisis in Evangelicalism. An excellent commentary on church trends.
Zondervan, 2004. (Formerly entitled, Under the Influence, 2001). It is common today for the church to be on the receiving end of much criticism. The…
Twenty years ago the term Political Correctness was not found in any standard dictionary. Now both the term, and examples of it, are ubiquitous. The…
Fontana Press, 1993. When Edwin Abbott wrote his turn-of-the-century minor classic, Flatland, he introduced us to a two-dimensional land where all activity was lived out…
We must heed the warnings of Solzhenitsyn: Many of my readers know about the very important book Live Not by Lies released in 2020 by…