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.

Bus advertisements by evangelistically-minded atheists are urging people to wake up and enjoy the godless life, but I often get the opposite response when people discover that I have a faith. “I’m jealous of your beliefs — I wish I could be certain like you.”

In a society where abortion is so common and enjoys such extensive legal and political protection, we suggested that Christian resistance might aim to create a child- and woman-friendly culture, where pregnant women under adverse circumstances really can become mothers. We wanted to see churches become ‘oases of welcome’ for women and their babies. But we have to admit that our suggestion has remained merely theoretical... until now

The Australian Human Rights Commission has begun a ‘Freedom of Religion and Belief in the 21st Century Project’ to map the state-of-play for freedom of religion and belief in Australia. The project seeks to address the experiences and place in civil society of every religious belief (including ‘secular belief’), and especially that of Muslim communities. This project is extremely important to Christians...

We can be very glad that this society does not support abandoning people with disabilities to street begging, or killing off the elderly and frail, or allowing the very ill to expire alone in some corner. But the problem with this fine sentiment is what we fail to see. In some ways our society does allow these practices to occur, and when they don’t occur it is precisely because there are carers who care.

As we approach the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seems fitting to move into unusual terrain and spend some time thinking about the place of nuclear weapons in today's world.

In early May NSW Attorney General John Hatzistergos introduced the Miscellaneous Acts Amendment (Same Sex Relationships) Bill 2008 into the Legislative Council of the NSW parliament. (This NSW State Bill is not to be confused with a recent Federal Bill introduced by the Federal Attorney General, Senator Robert McClelland; see link below.) John Hatzistergos described how the Amendment Bill is a further step in a long process of NSW legislative reform.

As the opening of the Olympic Games on 8 August approaches, world attention is on China, and this attention is persistently on issues other than sport. Human rights abuses and environmental concerns are top of the list. All of this begs the question: should Christians be more active on these moral issues?