Taking Designer Babies To The Next Level

Taking Designer Babies To The Next Level

by Stephen McAlpine Life has changed a lot. When I was born, my mum knew she was having twins. This was back in 1967. What she didn’t know – and wasn’t able to know – was the sex of each twin.   Mum was hoping for a boy and a girl. Apparently I was going to be Pamela...

In Times of Grief

by Amy Butler The first time I had seen a corpse, it belonged to my father-in-law. I was in my early 20s, a newlywed. The gravity of loss hit me, as I awoke to the reality of our corporate mortality. The fleetingness of our humanity was tangible, right in front of me,...

Heaven Will Be Full. Not Merely of People, but of Men and Women.

by Stephen McAlpine I was speaking with a young Christian woman recently at a writers’ event I was attending, when the topic of our bodily resurrection sparked a little more reaction than I expected.  I casually mentioned that we are headed towards a bodily...

The news we are not hearing

By Sandy McMillan Nearly one in three children in Africa currently are malnourished and failing to thrive. Why are we not hearing about it?  It was nearly two years ago that I added ‘Famine in Africa’ to my prayer list. There may have been some item hidden in the back...

Five Lies of our Anti-Christian Age: an unsettling but essential read

By Amy Butler There’s something deeply refreshing about reading a commentator who is prepared to critique her own advice. That’s what I got with my recent holiday read (actually, as an audio book), Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age by Rosaria Butterfield. It...