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In this new book by award-winning poet Andrew Lansdown, limericks and haiku jostle with rhymed verse and free verse to bring to life crazy critters, odd bods, fantasy worlds and the natural [...]

“The foundation of all our preaching is, and must be,” John Wesley claimed, “whosoever believeth on Him shall be saved”.1For over fifty years, from his conversion in 1738 to his death in 1793, [...]

In my last essay in this series I noted that Christian advocates of social justice seem to think that “conservative Christians should not make an issue of homosexuality because (1) there are not [...]

Several years ago, Tim Costello, “the most public face of Christian social justice in the country”,1 neatly summed up the way in which social justice advocates view themselves and their [...]

Once a year, thanks to the holiday attached to the holy-day of Easter, even non-Christians mark the death of Jesus Christ on a cross in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago. We Christians, however, do not [...]

Advocates of social justice are quick to impugn the motives of those who disagree with them. But what of the motives of social justice advocates themselves? Are they always and only noble and [...]

John Wesley was a Methodist minister through whose preaching and teaching God brought revival to England in the eighteenth century. As a young man John Wesley believed that salvation had to be [...]

Prostitution harms prostitutes. The magnitude of the harm is vividly depicted in an autobiographical book by Sarah Priesley called The Prostitution Trap.* Sarah came to Australia from England in [...]

This is the second of several essays on social justice by Andrew. God willing, the others will appear in coming issues of Life News. Conservative politicians are unconcerned about poverty and the [...]

War and the menace of war is a constant reality in the world today. Peace seems always to be under threat from one quarter or another. The Bible has a great deal to say about peace. It teaches [...]