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Finally, one arrives at the place of the skull because there is nowhere else to go. And there before the face of bone one pauses in despair.   The culmination of all evil is displayed before [...]

A few years ago, a professor at Pasadena City College led a class discussion on the famous story “The Lottery.” In the story, a seemingly normal village carries out a bizarre ritual involving [...]

Although my family’s interest in Australian Idol has increased over recent months, my own interest has lessened a little. For I have to admit that my favourite part of the whole affair was the [...]

There are times when we’re reading the Bible when we come across bits that niggle us. Most of the time we skip past them in the hunt for something we can understand more easily. But if we paused [...]

The day after Christmas, cinemas began screening The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a film adaptation of one of the novels belonging to The Chronicles of Narnia written by CS Lewis. It [...]

I recently had the pleasure of sitting in on a preaching workshop with David Jackman from the London-based Cornhill Training Course. David made some telling points from a survey of apostolic [...]

Visitors to the London Zoo a couple of weeks ago saw what you might call an unusual exhibit. The eight new inhabitants of the zoo lived and ate and played in a cage in front of visitors, just [...]

What we saw this past week in the Islamic demonstrations over the Danish cartoons of Muhammad was another vivid depiction of the difference between Muhammad and Christ, and what it means to [...]

The Dispossessed – Stories Interactive Press in Queensland has published a collection of short stories by Andrew Lansdown. Titled The Dispossessed, the book contains 23 short stories (179 [...]

Summer and snakes go together in Australia, as I well know. When I was a boy my parents used to take my brothers and me camping during the Christmas holidays to a place called Meelup, south of [...]