A post by Glenn caught my eye the other day and I have not been able to stop thinking about it as despite knowing that Glenn knows what he is talking about in this field, I just am struggling to believe his numbers. It really is proof-positive of the socialist extent of Labour’s policies in [...]
Entries from October 31st, 2008
Statism and Wealth Re-Distribution
October 31st, 2008 6 Comments
Tags: Bad Policy · Elections · Glenn Peoples · Statist Mindset · Wealth Re-Distribution · Welfare
Is Abortion Liberal? Part 2
October 27th, 2008 27 Comments
In my previous post, Is Abortion Liberal? Part 1, I argued that liberals who support the non-initiation of force principle can support abortion only on two grounds; (a) the fetus is a person but its existence inside the mother without her consent constitutes a form aggression, and hence, the mother’s action of killing it is [...]
Tags: Abortion · Classical Liberalism · David Boonin · Feticide · Francis Beckwith · Liberalism · Libertarianism · Michael Tooley · Peter Cresswell · Rodney Hide
Exams Loom: Signing Out for Now
October 25th, 2008 3 Comments
My last lecture of the year was taped yesterday, my first final exam in 8 years is on Thursday (whatever happened to study week?) so I am signing out of the blogosphere until my last exam on 5 November. My Labour weekend will be nothing but intense study. I am not stressed though as I [...]
Tags: Law Studies · NZ Blog Rankings
New Zealand Christian Blog Rankings for September 2008
October 25th, 2008 13 Comments
Extrapolating from Tumeke’s Semptember 2008 stats, the top 10 Christian Blogs* in New Zealand are: NZ Conservative (24) The Briefing Room (30) Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (36) MandM (77) Samuel Dennis (80) Gavin Knight (91) Contra Celsum (94) Put up Thy Sword (115) Say Hello to my Little Friend (a.k.a Beretta Blog) (128) [...]
Some Autobiographical Remarks: How I Discovered Christian Philosophy
October 23rd, 2008 6 Comments
Increasingly so of late, I find myself in conversations, in the receipt of email requests or blog comments asking where to begin and how to expand one’s Christian philosophical understanding. I have been asked to recommend books and places to study and to share my own journey in this area. I started my studies at [...]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Apologetics · Bruce Reichenbach · Faith and Reason · Paul Helm · Philosophy of Religion · Richard Swinburne · Steve Kumar · Thomas Morris · William Lane Craig
Answering the New Atheism: Invitation to a Thinking Matters Event
October 23rd, 2008 2 Comments
Taken from Thinking Matters – Events & Announcements: Answering the New Atheism Dr Steve Kumar Dip Theo, BA, M Div, PhD When: Tuesday 28 October Time: 7.30 – 9.30pm Where: Bethlehem Community Church Center – 183 Moffat Rd, Bethlehem Cost: Free Event Format: Live Presentation followed by Q&A and discussions In this presentation, Dr Kumar [...]
Tags: Apologetics · Events · Steve Kumar · Thinking Matters
Guest Post: Laidlaw College’s Mark Strom Responds to Critics
October 21st, 2008 13 Comments
Some weeks ago I wrote a review on the launch of Laidlaw College. I commented on the new vision for the future and my own reflections and frustrations of studying at its previous incarnation, Bible College of New Zealand. The comments section of this post saw the eruption of strong sentiment and criticism of Laidlaw [...]
Tags: BCNZ · Guest Post · Laidlaw College · Mark Strom
Does Pluralism Make Faith Arbitrary?
October 20th, 2008 2 Comments
Recently I have been reading Timothy Keller’s book The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. (This is not like me because I don’t typically read popular apologetics books, and it is even more rare that I would lead a blog entry with one.) One thing that interested me is that when Keller [...]
Tags: Apologetics · Faith and Reason · Pluralism · Timothy Keller · William Alston
On Going Blonde for a Date
October 20th, 2008 5 Comments
I finally got a date for my impending cervical disc replacement surgery: 9 December 2008. I promptly changed my hair and went blonde – its one thing I get to control I guess. And no, I won’t be arguing the case for the rationality of changing one’s hair when faced with life changing events!
Tags: Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery
