The Top 10 New Zealand Christian Blogs for August 09 are as follows: [1.] MandM 15 (5 – 25) [3.] NZ Conservative 17 (10 – 24 ) [2.] MacDoctor Moments 18.5 (18 – 19) [4.] Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 22 (13 – 31) [6.] Say Hello to my Little Friend (Beretta Blog) […]
Entries from September 30th, 2009
Christian Blog Ranking Report for August 09 – Tumeke
September 30th, 2009 10 Comments
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on Tumeke’s NZ blog stats for August; these stats are used in the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for August 09: NZ Conservative 24 MandM 25 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 31 Say Hello to my Little Friend (Beretta […]
Hamilton: Public Meeting on S59
September 29th, 2009 1 Comment
John Boscawen is holding a series of Public Meetings in various locations around New Zealand promoting his Bill to amend s59 of the Crimes Act to legalise the use of some types of reasonable force for the purposes of parental correction. Whilst the government would like everyone to think that this debate is over, Boscawen’s […]
Tags: Bob McCoskrie · John Boscawen · Larry Baldock · s59 · Smacking · Tim Macindoe
Tauranga: Public Meeting on S59
September 29th, 2009 Comments Off on Tauranga: Public Meeting on S59
John Boscawen is holding a series of Public Meetings in various locations around New Zealand promoting his Bill to amend s59 of the Crimes Act to legalise the use of some types of reasonable force for the purposes of parental correction. Whilst the government would like everyone to think that this debate is over, Boscawen’s […]
Tags: Bob McCoskrie · John Boscawen · Larry Baldock · s59 · Simon Bridges · Smacking
Sunday Study: The Bible and Rape – A Response to Michael Martin
September 27th, 2009 9 Comments
A little while ago I wrote a post criticising Michael Martin’s contention that the Bible commands a rape victim to marry her rapist, Does the Bible Teach that a Rape Victim has to Marry her Rapist? To summarise briefly, Martin cited Deuteronomy 22:28-29 and interpreted it as, Here the victim of rape is as treated […]
Tags: Bible · Ethics · Hermeneutics · Michael Martin · Old Testament Ethics · Rape · Sexual Morality · Sunday Stu · Sunday Study · Theology
Auckland Bloggers Drinks Feat. Pamela Anderson and John Key – This Thursday!
September 25th, 2009 7 Comments
Following on from the success of last week’s packed out impromptu Auckland Bloggers drinks featuring blogging celebrity David Farrar, Peter Cresswell and I have decided that we should feature celebrity guests more often. This week Pamela Anderson is in Auckland for Fashion Week and John Key is back from New York, fresh from his success […]
Tags: Anna Woolf · Bloggers Drinks · John Key · Pamela Anderson · Peter Cresswell
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.
