History

Hal Colebatch has generously allowed Life Ministries to use his articles in Life News for some years now. An award-winning poet and science fiction writer, Hal is also well known and respected [...]

I saw an excellent interview on Australia’s Channel 7 Sunrise program recently. Christian leaders were being asked about their opposition to proposals to redefine marriage, and were discussing [...]

The early Christians in Rome were renowned because they cared for all their own poor and needy and also for other people’s. While their care for outsiders brought them persecution, their care for [...]

I grew up with stories of the Titanic. My Grandmother and Uncles had seen the great ship sail out of Belfast Lough at the beginning of her doomed maiden voyage. One of the many stories I heard [...]

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 [...]

During October 2010, all the world was mesmerized by the ongoing “miracle” rescue of 33 miners trapped deep underground in the San Jose mine in Chile for 69 days, a process that took weeks to [...]

In October 1996 the novelist Thomas Keneally told the BBC that Pauline Hanson had put Australia on the train to Auschwitz.* You would, paraphrasing George Orwell, have to be an intellectual to [...]

Professor Thomas Madden chairs the history department at St Louis University, Missouri, USA. He is also the author of A Concise History of the Crusades. He says, “Since September 11, the Crusades [...]