Currently we have Say Hello to my Little Friend‘s Glenn (plus wife and kids) staying with us which is very cool because we are all old friends. They normally live in the south island so catching up since we left has been rare. Anyway, Glenn does a lot of podcast’s on his blog and he […]
Entries from December 30th, 2008
Rawls on Religion and Public Life Part 2
December 27th, 2008 Comments Off on Rawls on Religion and Public Life Part 2
In part 1, I outlined Rawls’ position on Religion and Public Life and now I will offer some critical comments on this position drawing from Nicholas Wolterstorff. There are numerous problems with Rawls’ contention here. Wolterstorff sums some of them up. Suppose, then, that someone has followed that strategy; she has analyzed our political mentality […]
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Rawls on Religion and Public Life Part 1
December 26th, 2008 Comments Off on Rawls on Religion and Public Life Part 1
In a two part series I will reflect on John Rawls’ widely celebrated discussion on religion and public life. In part 1, I will outline Rawls’ position and then in part 2 I will offer some critical comments on this position drawing from Nicholas Wolterstorff. One common line of argument for excluding theological premises from […]
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Merry Christmas
December 25th, 2008 Comments Off on Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone 🙂
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New Zealand Christian Blog Rankings for November 2008
December 23rd, 2008 5 Comments
Extrapolating from Tumeke’s November 2008 stats, the top 10 Christian Blogs on Public Discourse in New Zealand are: NZ Conservative (23 + 0) The Briefing Room (31 + 4) Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (33 + 1) MandM (46 + 4) Samuel Dennis (62 + 17) Kiwi Polemicist (72 + 20) Contra Celsum (95 […]
November Rankings
December 23rd, 2008 Comments Off on November Rankings
Tim has finally published the November blog rankings for NZ blogs on public discourse – just in time for Christmas. November of course the was frenzied election month so naturally blogs with a strong political bent, delivering what the punters want, did well and others saw their traffic drop off. Many bloggers hung up their […]
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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.
