How to Deceive without Really Lying
Soon after falling into sin, Adam was confronted by the God whom he had offended: ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which […]
Book Review: Beyond the Fish Sticker (Ben Swift)
Sydney: Morning Star Publishing, 2019 Benjamin Swift is a Presbyterian freelance writer from Brisbane, who has written a short but wide-ranging book on seeking a deeper knowledge of God and […]
The One Thing Needful
Moderator’s Comments – Posted 15 June 2020 There are seasons in life when the light shines a little more brightly, and all looks rather clearer, even if all is not […]
Pressing On or Treading Water?
Moderator’s Comments – Posted 20 April 2020 There is still a strange eerie feeling about the community at the moment. It was present during the bushfires, and it is still […]
Beggars in Need of Help (Psalm 28:2)
We expect life to be normal, by which we think of something resembling Utopia. However, we find it full of troubles, and it dislocates our thinking. Christians have an explanation […]
Book Review: If I Could Speak (Mark Jones)
Fearn: UK, Christian Focus, 2019 Mark Jones has adopted an imaginative way to approach the abortion issue by calling himself Zoe who is an unborn girl and who writes fourteen […]
Book Review: The Bible in Australia (Meredith Lake)
Sydney: NewSouth Books, 2018 Meredith Lake has produced an intriguing and wonderfully-written work on a most significant subject. Her thesis is that the Bible is under Australian skin – quite […]
Book Review: Journeying with Bonhoeffer (Andreas Loewe & Katherine Firth)
Six Steps on the Path of DiscipleshipSydney: Morning Star Publishing, 2019 The martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, hanged by the Nazis in 1945, is often portrayed in political terms, but he was […]
Christians Responding to the Pandemic
Moderator’s Comments – Posted 14 April 2020 It seems that there is but one topic of conversation these days: COVID-19. If we are not suffering from the virus, we must […]
Book Review: Is Jesus History? (John Dickson)
United Kingdom: The Good Book Company, 2019 In an age when supposedly intelligent pundits can openly question whether Jesus even existed, this is a work to be welcomed and studied. […]
Book Review: Where to Start with Islam (Samuel Green)
Sydney: Matthias Media, 2019 In learning of their own faith, Muslims learn something of Christianity – however erroneous that turns out to be – but Christians are not necessarily raised […]
Book Review: John Newton’s Diary, 1764 (Edited by Marylynn Rouse)
The John Newton Project, 2020 1764 was the year in which John Newton took up his ministry at Olney, and this is his diary. Those who have appreciated the earlier […]
Living in an Age of Anxiety
In 1965 E. R. Dodds wrote an historical work entitled Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety where he dealt with the period between the Roman Emperors, Marcus Aurelius, […]
The Curse of Plague: The Blessing of Faith
Moderator’s Comments – Posted 19 March 2020 Dr Samuel Johnson is supposed to have written to a hopeful would-be author: ‘Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part […]
Paedocommunion: Children at the Lord’s Table?
There are many things in life that remind us that we look through the glass darkly. We wish we understood more than we do. The classic Presbyterian view is that […]
Religious Discrimination or Religious Revival?
Moderator’s Comments – Posted 2 March 2020 In any society the legal system plays an important role in steering people in the way we should treat one another. Increasingly, in […]