Are Christians Better People Than Others?
Peter Abelard (1079-1142) managed to get himself into theological and moral trouble throughout most of his life. When he wrote Sic et Non (‘Yes and No’) to argue that the […]
Book Review: C. S. Lewis, The Reading Life
C. S. Lewis, The Reading Life, edited by David C. Downing and Michael G. Maudlin, London: William Collins, 2019. By the age of ten, C. S. Lewis had read Milton’s […]
The Character of Christ and the Person of Christ
John Stuart Mill is known as the great liberal political philosopher of nineteenth century England. He was also an atheist, but later in life he came to write of Christ: […]
Wrong Paradigm, Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Solution
Our response to the world needs to embrace more than lament, but a deep malaise has descended upon contemporary Western society. There is a hardness of heart, but a softness […]
Review of Glenn Sunshine, Slaying Leviathan, Idaho: Canonpress, 2020.
In fewer than two hundred pages, Glenn Sunshine has produced an overview of law and liberty down through the ages. The title comes from Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan in 1651, which […]
Review of Geoffrey Thomas, You Could Have It All, Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2020
This is an unusual but potentially most effective little book to use to reach the unbeliever. Geoff Thomas writes: ‘The greatest proof for the existence of God is the Lord […]
What Is Certain
The common saying is that only death and taxes are certain; everything else is up for grabs. Actually, there is some doubt about taxes. Jonathan Riley-Smith says that it was […]
Review of Jonathan Gibson, The Moon is Always Round, Canada: New Growth Press, 2019
There are fewer sadder events in life than a stillbirth. This is a book designed to convey to children that God is always good in every situation (Psalm 100:5). Jonathan […]
Goodness and God
In 1797, with the battle against the slave trade under way, William Wilberforce wrote the first of his three books, with the imposing title A Practical View of the Prevailing […]
Frayed about the Edges
Moderator’s Comments – Posted 15 March 2020 It is a common failing of any writer, teacher or preacher to impose one’s individual circumstances on a whole community – to assume […]
Book Review: A Spectacle of Glory (Joni Eareckson Tada with Larry Libby)
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016 John Newton once commented: ‘Some Christians are called upon to endure a disproportionate amount of suffering.’ Joni is one such Christian, as a quadriplegic with cancer […]
Praising and Criticising
One of the surest indications of our own corruption is the universal experience that if someone ventures to praise us, we tend to heartily agree, but if someone criticises us, […]
Book Review: The Story of the Church (A. M. Renwick)
London: IVP, Fourth Edition, 2020. The Preface to this fourth edition of The Story of the Church contains a short biography of A. M. Renwick, who wrote the first edition […]
Moderator General Statement: Victorian Legislation, Feb 2021
To the congregations of the Presbyterian Church of Australia9 February 2021The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill – Victoria The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill has now […]
Three Lessons from John Colapinto, As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who was Raised as a Girl
New York: HarperCollins, 2002 This would qualify as one of the saddest, most appalling stories I have ever come across concerning the whole issue of transgenderism. It tells of twin […]
To Be Madly in Love with Oneself
In Paul’s warning against ungodliness in the last days, between the two comings of Christ, he heads the list with those who will be ‘lovers of self’ (2 Tim.3:2). Recently […]