Category Archives: Culture

Should we write ‘Christian’ fiction?

Review

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Wisdom Hunter
By Randall Arthur

I like computers. Eight years ago I bought one on which to write talks and to catalogue books and articles. Four computers later, I have disks full of talks, and have finally begun to catalogue my library. Like many computer users, I have tried out a few of the thousands and thousands of public domain or ‘shareware’ programs that are available for computer users. Basically, these programs are written by people with various degrees of expertise who then circulate their program in the public domain. If you like what they’ve done and would like to use it on a regular basis, you pay a reasonable registration fee and receive a manual and any upgrades that might be forthcoming.

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From every nation: A Christian multiculturalism

Thought

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Sir William Keys, the past president of the RSL, maintains that “meeting the challenge of multiculturalism is the single most important task facing Australia today”. If this is so, what contribution will Australian Christians make to this challenge? Will the Gospel of Jesus Christ contribute to this task in any way? Peter Bolt examines the issues.

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Speaking the truth in love

Everyday Ministry

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Cross-cultural evangelism is hard work, but is that what we’re faced with here in Australia?

Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible … I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. (1 Cor 9:19, 22)

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Ford Dodges History

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Was it Henry Ford who observed that “History is bunk”? Henry, of course, has long since laid down in his own bunk, but perhaps his idea is worth considering. (more…)