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Entries from January 31st, 2009

A New Chapter

January 31st, 2009 17 Comments

It is official. I have lost my job; termination due to medical incapacity. This happened last week, the same day I got my news about my recovery setback, but due to the details needing to be sorted I couldn’t say anything til it was official. Yesterday was my goodbye morning tea, Matt and I cleared […]

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Capital Punishment in the Old Testament: 2

January 27th, 2009 20 Comments

In Capital Punishment in the Old Testament: 1 I suggested that the capital sanctions found in The Torah in most cases were not intended to be carried out, that instead there operated an implicit assumption that a person who committed a serious crime had forfeited their life and hence was to pay a ransom as […]

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Top 10 NZ Christian Blogs December 08

January 26th, 2009 9 Comments

Two New Zealand blog sites run monthly stats ranking the top New Zealand blogs on public discourse, Tumeke and Half Done. Both use different formulae so the stats don’t always come out the same. Previously I have accorded Tumeke’s stats as the official ones and Half Done’s as the shadow report, comparing Half Done’s stats […]

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Christian Blog Rankings for December 2008 – Tumeke

January 26th, 2009 Comments Off on Christian Blog Rankings for December 2008 – Tumeke

Extrapolating from Tumeke’s December 2008 stats, the top 10 Christian Blogs on Public Discourse in New Zealand are as follows; these stats are used in the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for December 08: 1. NZ Conservative (22 + 1)2. Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (Half Done) (24 + […]

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Capital Punishment in the Old Testament: 1

January 25th, 2009 9 Comments

In “The Autonomy of Ethics,” David Brink writes that a literal reading of the Old Testament, [Y]ields problematic moral claims, such as Deuteronomy’s claims that parents can and should stone to death rebellious children (21:18-21) and that the community can and should stone to death any wife whose husband discovers that she was not a […]

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Recovery Update

January 22nd, 2009 2 Comments

I saw my surgeon this week and had confirmed what we expected; my recovery is outside the norm, I am not doing as well as expected. This means an extra month off work, at least, and no time frame as to when I can expect to return to work. Most people are back at work […]

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Bush’s Legacy

January 16th, 2009 42 Comments

I am always slightly disturbed when I encounter Bush-haters amongst my friends. Disturbed not because it surprises me that Bush-hater exist but because my friends are otherwise smart, informed, thinking people who have a healthy degree of scepticism towards the left-wing, anti-conservative values of the media and hollywood; I just don’t get how they can […]

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