A Better Story - a review
The sexual revolution has failed to live up to its promises. This book looks at how the Christian view offers a better story.
Using Popular Culture to Reach Postmoderns
The landscape within which we do apologetics has changed. Our arguments can be sound, our evidence convincing (at least to us), but…
Dr Who - More to Learn
A sample chapter from Back in Time: A thinking fan's guide to Doctor Who.
Horror and 3D
Rachel Helen Smith considers two recent developments in film: horror and 3D. Karl Marx famously claimed, "Religion is the opiate of the…
The Roots of Our Gender Identity Crisis
What cultural shifts have led to the current gender debate?
Margaret Atwood - Life Without Certainty
Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…
Transformational Suffering and The Karate Kid
How can we be transformed through suffering? Surprisingly, the eighties cult film The Karate Kid offers some insights. If you're unfamiliar…
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
One of the most moving films of 2008, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a powerful, haunting story about the horrors of the Holocaust.…