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Entries from June 29th, 2012

Blogging as a Supplement to Peer Review: My 2011 SBL & ASOR Paper

June 29th, 2012 6 Comments

At the 2011 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion in San Francisco I gave a paper in the Blogger and Online Publication session entitled “Blogging as a Supplement to Peer Review“. It occurred to me today that I have never published it on MandM so here it is. This […]

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Matt on “The Panel” on Pat Brittenden Mornings – with David Slack

June 26th, 2012 Comments Off on Matt on “The Panel” on Pat Brittenden Mornings – with David Slack

If you tuned in to Radio Rhema at 11:45am (NZ time) on 26 June 2012 you would have heard this blog’s Matthew Flannagan and David Slack discuss topical issues such as the plight of the South African grandmother who may be forced to go back home, and also, the last few days of TVNZ Seven, among other […]

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Singer on Matthew Flannagan in “Peter Singer Under Fire: The Moral Iconoclast Faces His Critics”

June 24th, 2012 7 Comments

Yesterday Matt went the library and did a little reading for his upcoming Evangelical Philosophical Society paper “Peter Singer, Human Dignity, and Infanticide“ and he discovered that email exchange he’d had with Peter Singer in 2006 had resulted in a few paragraphs in Singer’s book Peter Singer Under Fire: The Moral Iconoclast Faces His Critics. Here is […]

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Madeleine and Matt to speak on “Being Good: Christian Virtues for Everyday Life” at the 2012 Evangelical Philosophical Society Meeting in Milwaukee

June 23rd, 2012 5 Comments

I have had to revise my earlier statements about not going to the November 2012 academic conferences in Milwaukee on the grounds that when you are personally invited to participate in a panel discussion by Doug Geivett and Mike Austin at the Evangelical Philosophical Society (“EPS”) you do not say no 🙂 (If I said […]

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My Faith Journey

June 22nd, 2012 8 Comments

Like Jacob in the book of Genesis, my spiritual journey has been one of wrestling with God. Not physical wrestling, like that engaged in by Jacob, but wrestling intellectually with the questions and implications that have arisen from my realisation that God exists and Jesus Christ actually, in reality, rose from the grave. I was […]

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Madeleine on “The Panel” on Pat Brittenden Mornings – with Craig Heilmann

June 21st, 2012 Comments Off on Madeleine on “The Panel” on Pat Brittenden Mornings – with Craig Heilmann

If you tuned in to Radio Rhema at 11:45am (NZ time) on 21 June 2012 you would have heard this blog’s Madeleine Flannagan and Craig Heilmann discuss topical issues such as the first car to be crushed under the new laws and whether it is a deterrent or not, whether Matariki should be a public holiday, and […]

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Matt to speak on Singer and Infanticide at 2012 Evangelical Philosophical Society Meeting in Milwaukee

June 18th, 2012 13 Comments

Every November there is about a two week period in America where a number of professional academic conferences are held where the best of the best in the field gather. For the last two years Matt has been either accepted or invited to speak at them (I was accepted to speak at them last year […]

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