Does anyone have a Sid the Sloth toy from the Ice Age movie series? Sid is our son Noah’s favourite character and his McDonalds Sid toy is his favourite toy. Whilst away at Mt Maunganui this weekend, Sid has vanished. He was last seen flying off the top of the 6 storey apartment building we […]
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Flannagans Leave the Deep South
June 14th, 2007 4 Comments
In our online absence we have been rather busy relocating ourselves from Dunedin to Auckland. After 5 years down south we have left to be closer to family. Its kinda funny cause I used to complain so much about it when we were there but we really miss Dunedin’s antarctic blasts and all the snow […]
A day at the beach in Dunedin
December 29th, 2006 2 Comments
We took the kids to the beach this morning since the sun came out and our 5 year old son had a new red bucket and spade he was eager to make sandcastles with. We found a spot between the flags as close to the water as we could sit, about 8 m, while still […]
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Christmas stockings and kids who won’t sleep!
December 25th, 2006 1 Comment
Just now Matt brought out youngest child, age 5, down to the office. As they approached I could hear that he was sobbing and hysterical and Matt was laughing which I thought odd until I saw him. Each of the kids have oversized, home made Christmas stockings – a stupid idea I came up with […]
Dear Hell Pizza
December 21st, 2006 5 Comments
My kids get taught about sex when I decide to teach them about it. As their parents I get to decide what and how I tell them about it. No one else gets to infringe my right to educate my kids, not the state, not family planning and not the local pizza company. I used […]
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Home Education
December 1st, 2006 Comments Off on Home Education
We are fans of home education and we home educate our kids. We cop a lot of flak at times from people who assume that they will be better off in school – usually because they went to school and they have taken on the false assumptions about home education. Often it feels as if […]
Tags: Family · Historical Ignorance · Home Education · Humour
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.
