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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 [...]

If there is no such thing as truth, as we are so often told today, then it must also be the case that there is no such thing as lies or falsehood. And it also follows that there can be no such [...]

Every four years the lead up to the Olympic Games is marred by complaints by athletes who have failed to win selection for their events. Most unsuccessful athletes accept their exclusion on the [...]

God loves us. Of the million things that point to this, one that is particularly wonderful is found in Psalm 68:6, where King David states, “God sets the lonely in families”. This is a strangely [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]