
NO PRIME MINISTER
No Prime Minister Most of what I learned about politics came from Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby, and not least from the Principal Private Secretary of their office in […]
Reformed Thought for Christian Living
No Prime Minister Most of what I learned about politics came from Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby, and not least from the Principal Private Secretary of their office in […]
The biggest news out of America this week is the leakage of a US Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe vs Wade. But what is Roe vs Wade? In January […]
In Finland on 24th January 2002 a landmark legal trial of a prominent Christian politician began, charged over her public expression of Christian beliefs about marriage and sexuality. This is also […]
Watching the Australia Day celebrations whilst on holiday was much more interesting and revealing than I had anticipated. Normally I am bored to tears by these kinds of events however I […]
Sin has a way of undoing itself. Jacques Mallet du Pan was a Huguenot who saw the folly of the French Revolution, and in 1793 made the acute and oft-repeated […]
Commenting on celebrities and social events has its hazardous side. We are warned that even a fool can be considered wise if he keeps silent (Prov.17:28). The death of Archbishop […]
Kevin Connolly is one MP who has spoken strongly for life when so many have equated killing with compassion. Here he is interviewed by Patrick Jason of Evangelicals for Life, […]
Some of the frogs in the marsh came to think that they needed someone to lead them. It is true that they already had a parliament of owls, but, although […]
Peter Barnes has shared his view from the bleachers about the Religious Discrimination Bill, with a series of criticism and concerns. I am no apologist for the Bill. It would […]
There are those who thought that Statler and Waldorf were the funniest part of The Muppet Show. Whether a jaundiced bleat from the bleachers always gets it right is another issue, […]
In her own delightful and resilient way, the quadriplegic Joni Eareckson Tada commented, without a hint of self-pity: ‘Perhaps I cannot stand on the shoulders of great saints, but I […]
The euthanasia and assisted suicide bill (formally known as the ‘Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill” 2021) has been passed in the lower house last Friday. Mr Kevin Conolly gives an eye-opening look […]
The Australian universities—especially in the area of the humanities—are failing to educate the next generation. And we are now at a point where the existing tertiary institutions cannot be saved, […]
Even as I pressed the send button I knew it was a risky moment. And so it proved to be. As soon as the article was published on a Christian website, there […]
When I read the article about Bishop Rod Chiswell in The Australian, I knew nothing of him. If I believed the article I would have thought that he was at best […]
We live in strange times when stupid and unreasonable ideas are accepted as normal to the extent that governments hasten to endorse and implement them in legislation. Why do LGBTI’s want […]