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Christians agree on almost everything. I have found some have different attitudes on the death penalty, a few on abortion, and some on the method of baptism, but basically we agree on everything – except in our attitudes to Israel. Why is this so?

In the Middle East, the conflict between Jew and Muslim, between Israel and Lebanon, between Israel and the Palestinians, and also between the ‘coalition of the Western-willing’ and the regimes of Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan, has centred on military attacks upon cities.

We have seen every night on television the ruins of cities, the [...]

Many people seek a promised land somewhere. It is the place of their dreams. It may be a new country. After every war there are hordes of refugees travelling from one country to another seeking their promised land. Today in Australia we have Iranian refugees, Iraqi illegal immigrants and detained boat people who have [...]

Many people seek a promised land somewhere. It is the place of their dreams. It may be a new country. After every war there are hordes of refugees travelling from one country to another seeking their promised land. Today in Australia we have Iranian refugees, Iraqi illegal immigrants and detained boat people who have [...]

Recently my wife Beverley and I followed in the footsteps of Charles Sturt. Sturt was that heroic Australian explorer, who from 1828 to 1846, charted some of our greatest rivers including the Darling, the Murray, the Brogan, the Castlereagh, and the Murrumbidgee.

I was always captivated by how he led his small band of starving men [...]

It is an amazing fact of history that three of the biggest religions in the world call one man ‘father’. That man is Abraham who lived 4000 years ago – about 2000BC.

The name Abraham means, “father of a multitude.” Abraham certainly became the father of a multitude: he is regarded as the father of all [...]

Some women live incredibly full lives. They possess multifaceted characters and are attractive people. Such a woman of our generation was Princess Diana. In the earliest annals of history, we read of Sarah the Princess, the wife of Abraham. She was such a woman. She was an intriguing woman, full of strength and character, marked [...]

Everybody knows that Jews, when speaking of their faith and culture, refer to the patriarchs of their land and faith as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Isaac is the second of the patriarchs. He was the son of Abraham (Gen. 17:18; 21:3) and the father of Jacob (Gen. 25:26).

Isaac is mentioned seventy times in the [...]

A number of scholars, looking at the international conflicts between Jew and Arab, Christian and Muslim, have turned to Abraham, hoping to find some points of mutual understanding that could lead to possible inter-racial reconciliation. Their search has been in vain. Jews and Muslims, who control the source material, cannot agree on the source material [...]