Given the noise from the US Presidential campaign, one understandable reaction might be that there’s been too much linking of the Bible with politics – and that maybe it’s time to take a break from linking the two. Politics appears… Continue Reading
The answer to the question “Is sexuality dividing the church in Australia?” is a decided “yes!” for Mark Durie, a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne School of Theology. He makes the case in his new book Double Minded: How… Continue Reading
Scott Morrison is unafraid to add to his daggy suburban dad image. He begins his recently released memoir Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness with the story of his family being blessed by their dog,… Continue Reading
I owe a youth movement called Christian Endeavour a big debt. Because it was at one Sunday meeting of Christian Endeavour that I fist declared myself to be a follower of Jesus Christ. You won’t find Christian Endeavour in many… Continue Reading
Peter Bentley’s review of Christopher Watkin’s Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture Given the sheer volume of reviews around, I did wonder if I could say anything of use, and up… Continue Reading
By Peter Bentley A Review of Keeping Faith: How Christian Organisations Can Stay True to the Way of Jesus (2023) by Stephen Judd, John Swinton, Kara Martin. One could think this is a perennial topic, but it has only had… Continue Reading
BOOK REVIEW by Penny Reeve Raising Tech-healthy Humans was a well-deserving shortlisted book in this year’s Australian Christian Book of the Year. Written by productivity consultant Daniel Sih, this book encourages families to pre-empt the screen/tech balance before things get… Continue Reading
Fizkes/Shutterstock Hugh Breakey, Griffith University Yasha Mounk’s new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, explores a radical progressive ideology that has been taking the world by storm. From its unlikely beginnings in esoteric… Continue Reading
Most Christians are more concerned with heaven and the narrow path to get there, but what of the broad path that Jesus told us leads to destruction? (Matthew 7:13-14 KJV) What “destruction” means is at the centre of what the… Continue Reading
Launching his book “Being Christian After Christendom” Rietveld explained that one effect of the radical change in the social landscape after the fall of Christendom – the time when Christian assumptions pervaded society – has been to make Christianity less… Continue Reading