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The West has a schizoid attitude toward children. Though ostensibly treasured, childhood is under attack. It was Dietrich Bonhoeffer who is purported to have said: “The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” Whether this is [...]

Few poets have explored the weight and wonder of fatherhood like Andrew Lansdown. Over the years, Andrew has established a high reputation for his subtle, insightful poems about his wife and children. I have known Andrew Lansdown for over two decades. As a songwriter [...]

Some choice quotes from this important book by Lewis: In February of 1943 C. S. Lewis gave three lectures which set out to do several things: examine the philosophical follies of modern education and reductionistic scientism, and make the case for objective values and natural law. They were published [...]

A Review of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry. Over the past few decades, there have been a number of excellent works critiquing the sexual revolution, the porn culture, sexuality divorced from morality, and so on. While many of these are penned [...]

One can never get enough of Leonard Ravenhill. There is always so much we can glean from the words of Ravenhill – though he is dead, yet he still speaks. He has brought a very strong and anointed word for the Body of Christ today. Sure, many [...]

Memorable quotes from Chesterton’s memorable book. OK, I confess. I have a copy of G. K. Chesterton’s 1908 classic Orthodoxy in my hands once again. It is never far from my side, and I revisit it regularly. I have often said that Chesterton is my all-time favourite author and Orthodoxy is my all-time favourite [...]

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) is one of my favourite writers, and his 1908 volume Orthodoxy is one of my favourite books. He was an English writer, apologist, poet, essayist, and journalist. He was extremely prolific, having penned some 80 books, 400 essays, and many short stories, [...]

Them Before Us is the name of a breakthrough book about the need for a global children’s rights movement written by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning. The team at Dads4Kids had the joy of helping organise Australia’s first Voice 4 Kids Summit in 2015. Katy [...]

This is a helpful antidote to so much of what ails us. The other day I penned a piece noting two radically different lifestyles. I noted that we can judge a culture by some of its more popular television programs, including hit reality TV shows. [...]

Anyone who has read the account of Lewis’ conversion in Surprised By Joy will know that the penultimate chapter is titled “Checkmate”. There he discusses some of the final steps that led him to abandon his atheism and move through from theism to Christianity. If, by some [...]

Where does one begin in writing up such a remarkable Christian? His impact has been monumental, and he has left an indelible legacy for generations to come. As Thomas Howard wrote, “We all have the same difficulty here: how to tap into some shape the [...]

Here are five moving stories of those who renounced their disdain of Christianity. The Roman leaders, the Jewish leaders, and Satan himself all thought that this troublemaker Jesus was finally out of their hair. Falsely accused of trumped up charges, he was punished and then [...]

Here are 22 must-read books on the very real threat that is China. Many people seeing a recommended reading list on China might think that this has mainly to do with politics, international relations, history, geopolitics and the like. Well, it does involve all that, [...]

“Sex is either consecration or desecration, with no neutral territory in between.”     - Roger Scruton “Sex is in its pleasure, its joy, its “well being”—the image throughout the Old Testament of the beatific vision—the nearest we come to God.”   - Dorothy Day [...]

I recently wrote a piece on how we can view sin via the new book by Christopher Watkin. And I more recently looked at a chapter from a newish book on biblical doctrine by Paul David Tripp. The former book is Biblical Critical Theory, and Tripp’s [...]

The topic of holiness is not one many Christians gravitate towards. Yet it is perhaps the key feature of the God we serve, and the attribute of God we most need to understand and aim for. And millions of words have been written on this [...]

The book by Eric Tonjes, Either Way, We’ll Be All Right: An Honest Exploration of God in Our Grief, offers much wisdom and comfort. Because we all suffer, we all grieve. But we suffer and grieve in different ways. Sometimes we can identify with and [...]

More useful cultural and biblical analysis from this noted Christian philosopher. See part one here. There are many ways to describe and discuss sin. Perhaps one definition of major significance is to speak in terms of autonomy. In its simplest form this means self-law or self-government. However, if there is [...]

This is the last of a three-part series inspired by the novel Armageddon by Leon Uris (1963). (Read parts one and two here.) A remarkable, fictional story based on actual history, from the American perspective, of the end of WWII in Germany with a particular [...]

This is the second of a three-part series inspired by the novel Armageddon by Leon Uris (1963). (Read part one here.) A remarkable, fictional story based on actual history, from the American perspective, of the end of World War II in Germany, with particular focus [...]