OK, it is not quite Christmas yet, but you do need to get presents – for yourself or others. And there is nothing better than…
(Preface: I actually wrote this article over a year ago. I had spoken to the person behind it back then, and in an effort to…
The great thing about a democracy is that various groups can make their competing truth claims in public, and no one need lose their head…
Two recent news items offer a marked contrast in how we treat other people in general, and children in particular. Most people would have seen…
With the current round of leftist protests in the US, especially targeting Wall Street and the wealthy, I find it a continued source of fascination…
I never thought I would write an article locking horns with N.T. Wright. Certainly not on a political matter, since he is a New Testament…
It was the news the world has been waiting to hear for a decade now. Finally it has come, and celebrations have erupted around the…
Crossway, 2010. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) There have been a number of important treatments of the issue of war and peace coming from…
Baker, 2011. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) There is nothing really new about the new atheists. They simply regurgitate the same old objections which…
A commentator recently said he found the “poem Desiderata to be very beautiful. Its advice is not incompatible with the teachings of Christ, in my…
It is all rather common – almost to the point of being monotonous – for atheists to throw out the old chestnut, “Can we be…
Lenin spoke of those in the West who either wittingly or unwittingly ended up supporting the monstrous agenda of the godless Communists. He spoke of…
I guess it is the nature of wolves to be pro-death – certainly as far as sheep are concerned. And of course when a wolf…
Forty years ago Carl F.H. Henry, the dean of American evangelical theologians and thinkers at the time, wrote a very important little essay entitled “The…
It is amazing how much the Bible speaks about the walk of the believer as being one of a life of battle. And it is…
In 1941 C.S. Lewis wrote a brief but very important essay entitled “The Weight of Glory”. There is a play on words with his title,…
This is another in an irregular series on new books worth noting – this time just on theology and biblical studies. Of course hundreds of…
You expect secular activists to mangle and abuse Scripture. That is bad enough, but it is much worse when people who call themselves Christians misuse…
Jesus is “the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being” according to Heb 1:3. Or as Paul said in Col 1:15:…
If you knew the world was going to end in one week, would you do anything different? I recently posted a question quite similar to…