Perspective

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 [...]

Do you ever think about heaven and how you will be received there? A song titled “This One’s With Me” by a Christian group called Newsong*encourages us to do just that. In the opening line the [...]

Does heaven exist? If it does, what it is like and how can we get there? Even among Christians, there seems to be uncertainty about the answers to these questions. And a general lack of biblical [...]

I have on occasions heard Christians tell non-Christians that in order to be saved they must be “born again”. This has always seemed to me to be a rather unhelpful thing to say to someone who [...]

Over the centuries Christians have used various terms to express their conviction that the Bible is the word of God and is therefore the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Below [...]

When our first son was little but “getting bigger” we used to sing “Jesus Loves Me” to him. When we came to the line, “I am weak but he is strong”, our boy would protest, “No I’m not!” Confidence [...]

In Marcel Proust’s classic novel Remembrance of Things Past, tasting a sponge cake dipped in tea triggers memories by which the narrator explores how the past, and our recalling of it, make us [...]

Summertime is snaketime in Australia. The reptiles become active—and dangerous!—as the weather warms up. Mulga, tiger, dugite, taipan, death adder—these are some of our better known venomous [...]

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 [...]

Last year, Dr. Marcia Angell began a two-part series in the New York Review of Books by writing, “It seems that Americans are in the midst of a raging epidemic of mental illness, at least [...]