The final part of a four part review of a small but important book. That Hideous Strength – How the West Was Lost – Melvin Tinker Part 1 That Hideous Strength – Part 2 – The Gender Agenda That Hideous Strength – Part 3 – Barbarians Through the Gates – The Destruction of the Family “At least five times the Faith has to all appearances … Continue reading That Hideous Strength – Part 4 – Bringing Down Babel
This is the last Quantum for 2018. I wanted to do a review of the year but as I looked at the most popular blog posts for this year I realised that they covered most of the main issues so I thought I would combine the two. You can listen by clicking on the link below. (there is a fair amount of music in this … Continue reading Quantum 22 – 2018 – End of Year Review
The cancer of cultural Marxism in the Church, the World and the Gospel of change. This is a short (117 pages) but important book which in my view gives a depressing but accurate summary of the current state of Western society and the the Church. Yet it does not leave us without hope. Tinker bases much of what he says on the prophetic novel by … Continue reading That Hideous Strength – How the West Was Lost – Melvin Tinker Part 1
Last night I had the privilege of gathering with a couple of hundred others in the centre of Sydney to hear Os Guinness give the Smith lecture on the future of humanity. It was a gathering of the great and good in Sydney evangelicalism – from the Archbishop to the former Vice Prime Minister…It was an incredibly encouraging event organised by City Bible Forum. The … Continue reading Ozzie Observations – Week 10 – Os Guinness and the Future of Humanity
So near. Yet so far. In this final part of my review of Murray’s brilliant book we come to consider the heart of the matter. What can be done to stop Europe, as we know it, dying? Murray has a sort of answer but it is not nearly adequate enough. In part 1 we looked at the overall thesis of the book – that Europe … Continue reading The Strange Death of Europe – Part 4 – Christianity
Today I begin a new series on the Christian Today website – we will also be following this up through the Solas ‘Fleabytes’. You can access the first article here – Five Bad Reasons Christians Avoid Apologetics (I guess they didn’t like my original title).. This was also discussed on Janet Parshall Show on Moody Radio The text is below: “You can’t argue people into the Kingdom” … Continue reading An Apologia for Apologetics
Happy New Year! May 2016 be a year of renewal, revival and reformation for the church throughout the world! The following is my New Year article for Christian Today It includes a list of my top five books for 2015. “When I look at my sins (and if I think they’re sins, then they are sins), I can see the appeal of born again Christianity. … Continue reading New Year – Five Books for the Renewal of the Church
I write a regular column for Christian Today – which is a British based Christian news website, with a large number of American followers. Today when the British parliament is about to vote on yet another war/bombing campaign I find it interesting and depressing that the following are the top (ie. most popular) items on the website Why Brad Pitt’s an atheist and why the … Continue reading The Theology of Bombing ISIS in Syria
Welcome to this weeks Quantum of Solas 45 in which we discuss Xi Jinping | British Values | David Cameron’s ‘If you are teaching intolerance. we will shut you down’ | Gender Identity politics | Wealth fatigue | Virtue Signalling | Solas Connect & SolasMagazine.com website | Os Guinness: Fool’s Talk. Enjoy, subscribe and pass on…. Continue reading Quantum of Solas 45 – Xi Jinping, British values, Intolerance, Gender identity politics, Wealth fatigue, Virture signalling, Solas Connect, Solas Magazine and Os Guinnness’s latest book
The view from the sauna window and pool! Wisla The final day. I didn’t get much sleep and had the usual mentoring meeting at the ridiculous hour of 7am. So I was pretty tired when I went to our seminar. It was a panel discussion which was ambling along fine until a question was asked about homosexuality. The Dutch panelist mentioned in passing that … Continue reading ELF Poland – Day 6
