The more observant among you will have noticed that Matt has not written a blog entry for a while. It is not for lack of want but more for being completely inundated of late: His teaching course load this semester is heavier. His non-academic job continues to suck up his time and its hours limit [...]
Entries from August 23rd, 2008
Cultural Confusion and Ethical Relativism – Invitation to a Thinking Matters Event
August 19th, 2008 No Comments
Taken from Thinking Matters – Events & Announcements: Cultural Confusion and Ethical Relativism Dr Matthew Flannagan PhD, MSocSci, BSocSci When: Tuesday 2nd September Time: 7 – 9pm Where: Bethlehem Community Church Center – 183 Moffat Rd, Bethlehem, Tauranga Cost: Free Event Format: Live Presentation followed by Q&A and discussions Christian moral obligations are often seen [...]
Tags: Events · Faith and Reason · Relativism · Thinking Matters
Caller of the Week – Sexual Preference on Census Form
August 18th, 2008 2 Comments
When I was at work last week one of my colleagues said he thought he had heard me on the radio one Friday afternoon but he wasn’t sure if it was me. I had phoned into Newstalk ZB during the last week of the school holidays but it wasn’t a Friday, so we sort of [...]
Tags: Kinsey · Sexual Morality · Talkback
Surgery – Car Accident Update
August 15th, 2008 14 Comments
I got my MRI results on Tuesday. They show damage to two discs, both are compressed. One is more compressed than the other, the other is protruding and pushing on a nerve, hence all the pain. I have two choices. Do nothing and see if it fixes itself (its been almost 5 months). Have surgery [...]
Tags: Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery
Blogs We Like
August 6th, 2008 No Comments
We have finally sat down and revised our list of blogs we link to. Its something we have been meaning to do forever but haven’t so tonight we made a start. I am sure that we have missed heaps of blogs we intend to link to so if you think we should link to you, [...]
Tags: Blog Upgrades
Coming Events
August 6th, 2008 3 Comments
As the early bird rate expires on Friday, I registered Matt’s and my attendance at this years Forum on the Family. Being election year, the line up is mostly politicians all keen to vote catch but of the array of political parties being billed, one is most conspicuously absent. Can you spot which one? Its [...]
Tags: David Farrar · Elections · Events · Forum on the Family · Kiwiblog
Car Accident Update
August 5th, 2008 1 Comment
As you know I was involved in a car accident some months back and have had ongoing issues with my neck and back as a result rendering me unable to work and in pain daily. I have had a lot of support through this site and I wanted to take the time to thank those [...]
Tags: Car Accident
Laidlaw College
August 4th, 2008 19 Comments
On Saturday Madeleine and I attended the launch of Laidlaw College (formerly Bible College of New Zealand or BCNZ). It was an impressive event which was well attended; the Minister of Education Chris Carter, local MP Lynne Pillay, United Future’s Judy Turner, various Waitakere City Councillors and former BCNZ Principals were in attendance. The MC [...]
Tags: BCNZ · Laidlaw College · Mark Strom
Next time you want to tape a politician…
August 7th, 2008 No Comments
I will resist the urge the comment on the content of the recent taped conversations, well I might say *yawn* what political party does not contain MP’s that have ideas about where they would like their party to head in the future, in fact to swipe my 16 year old’s comments, there would be something [...]
Tags: Legal Advice · National Party