Living for Eternity
‘All that is not eternal is eternally out of date,’ said C. S. Lewis. It is one of those fresh and startling comments that Lewis was prone to make. We […]
ETHICS BY OURSELVES
Before he died of cancer in 2011, Christopher Hitchens spoke for many a modern atheist – and ancient one for that matter – when he declared: ‘We believe with certainty […]
Review of Catherine F. Vos, The Child’s Story Bible, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2021
Catherine Vos (1865-1937) was the wife of Geerhardus Vos, who was Professor of Biblical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. This story Bible was a labour of love which she finished […]
Changing Scenes of Life
Ecclesiastes 3 sets out a poetic and memorable reminder that life has its seasons, and there is a time for everything – to be born and to die, to plant […]
Dane Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly; The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers, Wheaton: Crossway, 2020.
Dane Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly; The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers, Wheaton: Crossway, 2020. Matthew 11:29 tells us that Jesus is gentle and lowly of heart, and […]
HISTORY AND THE HUMAN HEART
Heresies do not appear as mushrooms overnight. The Presbyterian Church in America – a body whom we would regard as a sister Church – has gone through a few disturbances, […]
God As God: Justice And Mercy
In explaining the cross, the apostle Paul demonstrates that it reveals both God’s righteousness and His mercy, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has […]
Review: Free to Change: Survey of 78 Ex-LGBT People
Cause, Free to Change: Survey of 78 Ex-LGBT People, available through cause.victoria@gmail.com Before the Victorian government passed its oppressive laws banning ‘conversion therapy’ in February 2021, it drew on a […]
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 […]