Culture

In contemporary culture truth decay is a massive problem. That idea that there is fixed, absolute truth which applies to us all is rejected by most people. In terms of what we can know, black and [...]

Cory Bernardi, The Conservative Revolution, Connor Court, 2013. Unlike perhaps ninety per cent of the haters bashing Cory Bernardi on various websites, I actually have his new book and have [...]

I left school and went to my first job and then to University as, I think, a Deist. I believed it was quite obvious that there was a God, because it was self-evidently true that there could not [...]

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 [...]

Political correctness has now raised its head in what one would have thought a stronghold of traditional Christianity—the work of C. S. Lewis. To be precise, the new film of his Voyage of the [...]

Les Murray, one of the best English-speaking poets in the world, said recently that “Probably the only greater Australian Christian poet [than James McAuley] is Andrew Lansdown”. This statement, [...]

A woman who is a neighbour of one of my colleagues home schools her three kids. She does a great job—except for one thing: She won’t let them read novels. At worst, they might be trashy; at best, [...]

A review of Cruel and Usual Punishment by Nonie Darwish (Thomas Nelson, 2008) Nonie Darwish knows a fair amount about Islam. She was an Egyptian Muslim for the first 30 years of her life. Then [...]

Prince Caspian, the sequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, began screening in Australian cinemas in the first week of June and I went along with my family to see it on the first day of [...]

The Golden Compass has been a source of anxiety and anger for some Christians since it began screening in the cinemas in December last year. It is said to be a profoundly anti-Christian film that [...]