You are invited to the next MandM speaking engagement: Apologetics: Answering Objections to the Christian Faith Dr Matthew Flannagan BSocSci, MSocSci (Hons), PhD When: Sunday 8 MarchTime: 6.30 pmWhere: Massey Presbyterian Church – 510 Don Bucks Rd, Massey, West AucklandCost: FreeEvent Format: Presentation followed by Q&A In this presentation, Dr Flannagan will speak on the […]
Entries from February 28th, 2009
Top 10 NZ Christian Blogs – January 09
February 28th, 2009 10 Comments
The official MandM Top 10 NZ Christian Blogs for January 09 (public discourse) are ranked by identifying Christian blogs then comparing Half Done’s January 09 stats with Tumeke’s January 09 stats and averaging them to obtain their overall January 09 ranking. Rank. [previous top 10 rank] Blog Average (Half Done Tumeke) [1.] NZ Conservative 17 […]
Christian Blog Rankings for Jan 09 – Tumeke
February 28th, 2009 1 Comment
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on Tumeke’s NZ blog stats for January; these stats are used in the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for January 09: Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 23 NZ Conservative 27 The Briefing Room 32 Keeping Stock 35 MandM 54 […]
They Just Want Your Money (and your Voice)
February 27th, 2009 2 Comments
My post about student association membership reminded me that just yesterday I stumbled accross this article that I wrote for Critic’s diatribe column when we were at Otago. Despite the fact that OUSA membership has probably increased since we were there, that NZUSA’s annual budget is now almost certainly much more than the figure I […]
How to Put Twitter Feeds Into Blogger
February 27th, 2009 6 Comments
We have just discovered Twitter. Twitter is the new thing that everyone online seems to be getting into. Its heaps of fun, free to sign up and you can communicate with a lot of people with very little effort which is always attractive with our busy lives. You can get your Twitter updates through your […]
Tags: Tech-Tips
My Conscience Cannot be Bought with a Jelly-Shot
February 27th, 2009 5 Comments
On Monday a new University year begins for thousands of New Zealand students. If you are a student, you probably don’t even realise that when you paid your fees to enrol at University, most of you joined a political organisation; a political organisation with strident viewpoints on all sorts of controversial hot potatoes that speaks […]
Studying at Otago University no Riot
February 25th, 2009 20 Comments
From 2002-06 I had the pleasure of studying at Otago University. I also taught there in various roles as a researcher, tutor and fill-in lecturer for the Theology, Philosophy and Law schools. Otago was an intellectually rigorous and stimulating place; it’s reputation for being the one of the best Universities in New Zealand and the […]
Tags: Student Associations · Student Riots · University of Otago · Voluntary Student Membership
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.
