Michael Laws has written a strong piece in the Sunday Star times on child abuse which pulls no punches and calls for a return of the death penalty. Most of what he says is spot on (well there is a bit of the ‘someone else should be doing something’ going on) but this statement is […]
Entries from November 23rd, 2008
In Defence of the Defence
November 23rd, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: Child Abuse · Due Process · Human Rights · Jurisprudence · Michael Laws · Nia Glassie
New Zealand Christian Blog Rankings for October 2008
November 21st, 2008 1 Comment
Extrapolating from Tumeke’s October 2008 stats, the top 10 Christian Blogs on Public Discourse in New Zealand are: NZ Conservative (23 +1) Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (34 +2) The Briefing Room (35 -5) MandM (50 +27) Samuel Dennis (79 +1) Kiwi Polemicist (92 new) Gavin Knight (95 – 4) Put up Thy Sword […]
October Blog Rankings: MandM Crack the Top 50
November 21st, 2008 Comments Off on October Blog Rankings: MandM Crack the Top 50
The October NZ blog rankings are out and MandM, as predicted, is one of the top 3 movers and shakers, climbing 27 places to number 50: Unfortunately whilst Tim did update our URL to http://www.mandm.org.nz/ he failed to do so for our Alexa and Technorati Stats and went off our old and defunct blogspot url […]
Tags: NZ Blog Rankings
What About the Poor? More on Sustenance Rights
November 19th, 2008 9 Comments
In my last post, What About the Poor? Sustenance Rights Examined, I noted the position of Nicholas Wolterstorff that, “If a rich man knows of someone who is starving and has the power to help that person, and chooses not to, then he violates that person’s rights as surely and reprehensively as if he had […]
Tags: Christian History · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Role of the State · Welfare
Homosexuality and the Right-Wing Socialists
November 18th, 2008 27 Comments
Lately I have been thinking I must write a post about the sacred cow of homosexuality and how it can turn the most ardent liberal into a lefty. I am not the only person to have noticed this phenomena. As Matt once commented, “Christians should be very concerned with people who will sell out their […]
Tags: Cactus Kate · Glenn Peoples · Grant Robertson · Homosexual Conduct · Stephen Franks
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
The Special Votes Give a Seat to the Greens
November 22nd, 2008 1 Comment
The Special Votes have been counted, the official result of the New Zealand 2008 Election is in; see the effect they have made on the provisional results: Final results in bold, (provisional results in brackets) National 44.93% (45.45%) – 58 (59) seatsLabour 33.99% (33.77%) – 43 seatsGreen 6.72% (6.43%) – 9 (8) seatsACT 3.65% (3.72%) […]
Tags: Elections · Green Party