You are invited to a Thinking Matters Auckland, God, Morality and Society, event: What: Jason Kumar and Stuart McEwing speaking on “Do we need God to be good?”When: Tuesday 18th August – 7:00pmWhere: Lecture Room 2, Laidlaw College, 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson, West AucklandFormat: Talk followed by questions, answers and discussion.Cost: Free but donations […]
Entries from August 8th, 2009
In Pursuit of an LLB – Some News!
August 7th, 2009 19 Comments
I have some news!!! Official as of this morning: this semester, instead of doing one of the elective papers on offer to 4th year law students, I will be undertaking Supervised Research on freedom of religion with the Academic Dean, Professor Paul Rishworth, described on the Law School’s faculty page as “the country’s leading legal […]
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Echo Comments UPDATED
August 7th, 2009 16 Comments
Sorry all, it appears that between last nights bloggers drinks and this morning JS-Kit have switched us over to their Echo upgrade for comments which has effectively wrecked the hours of work I, along with the help of Bethyada and Stephanie, put into making comments appear seamlessly integrated and appears to no longer give you […]
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Transport Stress UPDATED
August 5th, 2009 3 Comments
The last few days have really been stressful in terms of transport issues. As Matt mentioned on the way to my grandfather’s memorial our family car broke down and was diagnosed with a fairly major condition. Then when I got to the memorial late I was loaned my grandfather’s car which I then had to […]
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Christian Blog Ranking Report for July 09 – HalfDone
August 3rd, 2009 4 Comments
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on HalfDone’s NZ blog stats for July; these stats make up part of the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for July 09: MandM 5 NZ Conservative 13 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 17 MacDoctor Moments 18 Keeping Stock 21 […]
This Week in Auckland
August 3rd, 2009 Comments Off on This Week in Auckland
Don’t forget: Tomorrow night’s Thinking Matters Auckland Seminar: Dr Matthew Flannagan speaking on “In Defence of Divine Commands”at 7:00pm in Lecture Room 2, Laidlaw College, 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson, West Auckland Thursday night’s Auckland Bloggers Drinks from 6.30pm at Galbraiths, 2 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland. See you there 🙂
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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.
Jim Evans Decisively Smacks John Roughan
August 6th, 2009 11 Comments
On Saturday the NZ Herald’s John Roughan demonstrated why journalists should not engage in legal interpretation in his widely criticised piece on the smacking referendum, “Sinister undertones to referendum instigator.” At the time I struggled to ascertain whether Roughan was being deliberately deceptive or he just didn’t get it. He essentially quoted the non-controversial, much […]
Tags: Jim Evans · John Roughan · Referendum · s59 · Smacking