When ScrubOne sent us this offering as a guest post we couldn’t resist. This sort of thing has been happening for years and we saw it a lot back at Waikato University but that was pre-You Tube…gotta love the internet. DPF links to some videos of a student meeting held at the University of Wellington […]
Tags: Guest Post · Voluntary Student Membership · VUWSA
Flat out busy as the end of semester approaches and deadlines and exams loom we thought we’d link to some blog posts we’ve recently found interesting rather than actually write anything ourselves: Wintery Knight has a video for which his blog post title sums up the content: MUST-SEE: Megyn Kelly of Fox News exposes the […]
Tags: ACORN · Bethyada · Cactus Kate · David Farrar · Mentionables · Notre Dame · Samoa Tsunami · The Prosblogion · Voluntary Student Membership · Wintery Knight
Following on from More Evidence of Student Association Delusions of Grandeur, where I shared Auckland University Students Assocation’s (AUSA) unfathomable intentions to incorporate the UN Declaration of Human Rights into their constitution, a fellow student and reader of this blog, brought my attention to today’s email to all University of Auckland students which he described […]
VUWSA (the Victoria University of Wellington Students Association) are at it again. Just last week David Farrar slammed them for their intended ANZAC day flag burning protest and this week they put Dave Crampton on notice for defamation and then retracted it at the 11th hour confessing that it was them at fault. I wouldn’t […]
In case you have noticed and wondered at the recent flurry of arrivals from Kiwiblog in the Live Traffic Feed you might click here and then once on the page use “control f” then type in “abortion” and then read the defamatory statement about me (and Matt) and the ensuing debate that began on Friday. […]
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 […]
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.
Today's New Atheists proclaim themselves our culture's party of reason. It is a claim they cannot sustain. Reason is the New Atheists' weakness, not their strength and in fact, the Christian faith is a far better place to look for True Reason. Making their case accessible to the first-time inquirer as well as the serious student, this top-flight team of writers presents a sound defense and a strong introduction to the true reason uniquely found in Christianity.
The book begins by examining foundational philosophical approaches to the Bible as well as the methodological challenges those philosophies create for interpreting the Bible. It then addresses textual and historical challenges and how to deal with them. Finally it looks at ethical, scientific, and theological challenges demonstrating the Bible's moral integrity in relationship to contemporary moral emphases.
Many philosophers have considered the strengths and weaknesses of a virtue-centered approach to moral theory. Much less attention has been given to how such an approach bears on issues in applied ethics. The essays in this volume apply a virtue-centered perspective to a variety of contemporary moral issues.
The challenge of a seemingly genocidal God who commands ruthless warfare has bewildered Bible readers for generations. A range of expert contributors engage in a multidisciplinary approach that considers this issue from a variety of perspectives: biblical, ethical, philosophical and theological.
The nineteen essays here raise classical philosophical questions in fresh ways, address contemporary challenges for the church, and will deepen the thinking of the next generation of apologists. Packed with dynamic topical discussions and informed by the latest scholarship.
While New Atheists like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and others proclaim loudly their rationality, clear thinking, and incontrovertible scientific arguments, others are beginning to wonder how genuinely rational they are. Have they proved anything? Have they argued convincingly? Have they pinpointed any real challenges to the credibility of Christian faith?
VSM Bill off to Select Committee
September 25th, 2009 3 Comments
The VSM Bill has passed its first reading and is off to Select Committee. Predictably the student associations have freaked out and David Farrar has an interesting fisk of the various press releases they’ve issued in response here. Given that Madeleine and I were involved in the move to make student associations voluntary in the […]
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