While Christmas is steadily becoming secularised, it is still a time when Christianity and the wider culture experience a temporary convergence.

The Melbourne Cup gives Christians insights into Australian culture.

This may surprise you – but many consider it a bit cheeky to use Luke 4:18 in a discussion about prisoners.

In a significant legal judgment in the Supreme Court in Perth (Australia) a 49-year old man, Christian Rossiter, has been granted the right to starve himself to death.

Australia is ageing. There are more older Australian now than ever before, and their numbers are rising. Does this prospect excite you, or worry you?

Richard Schumack investigates the in-vogue assumption that since 9/11 the relationship of the Muslim world and the West has been overshadowed by tension and conflict.

Even among Christians, some have exclaimed in disbelief "What love is this?" with regard to the theological system known as "Calvinism."

Moon-walker Jim Irwin suggests that most of the astronauts involved in those early days of space walks and moon visits, had either become Christians, or gone mad.

Apologies to science teachers, but I hated science at school. However, I’m becoming increasingly convinced that, as a Christian, ignorance is not the best policy.

When do people find the time to read 40-50 blogs and to write regular comments? Could it sometimes be at work? Could this be a new web-based form of theft?

He’s been the subject of countless news stories, but Marcus Einfeld's lasting legacy will be encapsulated in the headlines of the past week: ‘A Man Without Honour’.

Don Carson, while pointing out the obvious errors of postmodernism, concedes that there is at least one thing that we can learn from it.

A couple of shark attacks in recent weeks, in Sydney Harbour and at Bondi Beach have left me feeling a tad nervous - about more than meeting an underwater predator.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the term ‘quality of life’. I guess that’s what having an elderly, unwell relative does to you.