Old friends Roger and Donna were woken in the night by the tornado that tore through Cambridge last night and realised that their back fence and two trees were gone. This was their backyard: The tree took out their fence and their neighbour’s roof: When they went outside there was debris everywhere and there was […]
Entries from October 17th, 2008
MandM go Private
October 16th, 2008 13 Comments
Two years on from our very first post, In Remembrance of the Religious Right, the MandM blog has come to a place where it is officially grown up enough to warrant its own domain name. Our readership has grown considerably since we started. We now feature on the top 100 New Zealand blogs – we […]
Tags: Announcements · Blog Upgrades · NZ Blog Rankings
Questions you Would Like to Ask God: Invitation to Matt’s Next Speaking Event
October 16th, 2008 4 Comments
Matt is scheduled to speak for Unitec Salt and Light; here is the text from their advertisement of the event: Questions for God Dr Matthew Flannagan Ph.D, MSocSci (Hons), BSocSci When: Tuesday 21 October Time: 4-5 pm Where: Gold Lecture Theatre (Beside the Hub) – Unitec Mt Albert Campus Cost: Free Event Format: Presentation followed by […]
Tags: Apologetics · Events · Salt and Light · Unitec
Election Lollies: Labour Vote Buys with Student Allowance
October 16th, 2008 Comments Off on Election Lollies: Labour Vote Buys with Student Allowance
Socialism is an easy disease to catch. Labour roll out their election bribe for students and our daughter Sheridan (Sherry) gets excited. She starts Uni in March and at that point will have to quit her part-time job as the hours will conflict with her studies. For a 16 year old she earns a fair […]
Tags: Elections · Personal Responsibility · Student Debt
Back in the Land of Blogging
October 16th, 2008 Comments Off on Back in the Land of Blogging
I missed the ACT and National party launches. I missed the leaders debate and with no TV, radio or internet – save only Tuesday’s herald the old guy in the bed next to mine gave me – I have no clue whats new with the election and current events. Frantically trying to catch up, thank […]
Tags: Car Accident
Did Not Make It
October 13th, 2008 Comments Off on Did Not Make It
In the last post I noted our intention to attend the ACT party launch on Sunday. We would love to have posted a review of what we saw today, however, unfortunately we never made it. Madeleine has, it appears, had an adverse reaction to the pain meds she has been on since her car accident. […]
Tags: Car Accident
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.
ACT Party Launch: Why on a Sunday Morning?
October 11th, 2008 4 Comments
Given we are exploring our short list of political party’s at the moment attending the ACT Party Official Launch is something we are interested in doing. However the details below make the decision to attend difficult, from ACT’s website: The official launch of the ACT Party campaign for the 2008 election will held be at […]
Tags: ACT Party · Elections