The Top 10 New Zealand Christian Blogs for August 09 are as follows: [1.] MandM 15 (5 – 25) [3.] NZ Conservative 17 (10 – 24 ) [2.] MacDoctor Moments 18.5 (18 – 19) [4.] Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 22 (13 – 31) [6.] Say Hello to my Little Friend (Beretta Blog) [...]
Entries from September 30th, 2009
Christian Blog Ranking Report for August 09 – Tumeke
September 30th, 2009 10 Comments
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on Tumeke’s NZ blog stats for August; these stats are used in the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for August 09: NZ Conservative 24 MandM 25 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 31 Say Hello to my Little Friend (Beretta [...]
Hamilton: Public Meeting on S59
September 29th, 2009 1 Comment
John Boscawen is holding a series of Public Meetings in various locations around New Zealand promoting his Bill to amend s59 of the Crimes Act to legalise the use of some types of reasonable force for the purposes of parental correction. Whilst the government would like everyone to think that this debate is over, Boscawen’s [...]
Tags: Bob McCoskrie · John Boscawen · Larry Baldock · s59 · Smacking · Tim Macindoe
Tauranga: Public Meeting on S59
September 29th, 2009 No Comments
John Boscawen is holding a series of Public Meetings in various locations around New Zealand promoting his Bill to amend s59 of the Crimes Act to legalise the use of some types of reasonable force for the purposes of parental correction. Whilst the government would like everyone to think that this debate is over, Boscawen’s [...]
Tags: Bob McCoskrie · John Boscawen · Larry Baldock · s59 · Simon Bridges · Smacking
Sunday Study: The Bible and Rape – A Response to Michael Martin
September 27th, 2009 9 Comments
A little while ago I wrote a post criticising Michael Martin’s contention that the Bible commands a rape victim to marry her rapist, Does the Bible Teach that a Rape Victim has to Marry her Rapist? To summarise briefly, Martin cited Deuteronomy 22:28-29 and interpreted it as, Here the victim of rape is as treated [...]
Tags: Bible · Ethics · Hermeneutics · Michael Martin · Old Testament Ethics · Rape · Sexual Morality · Sunday Stu · Sunday Study · Theology
Auckland Bloggers Drinks Feat. Pamela Anderson and John Key – This Thursday!
September 25th, 2009 7 Comments
Following on from the success of last week’s packed out impromptu Auckland Bloggers drinks featuring blogging celebrity David Farrar, Peter Cresswell and I have decided that we should feature celebrity guests more often. This week Pamela Anderson is in Auckland for Fashion Week and John Key is back from New York, fresh from his success [...]
Tags: Anna Woolf · Bloggers Drinks · John Key · Pamela Anderson · Peter Cresswell
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Infantile Religious Morality
September 24th, 2009 71 Comments
In “Why Traditional Theism Cannot Provide an Adequate Foundation for Morality” Walter Sinnott Armstrong criticises William Lane Craig’s contention that theism, if true, provides an adequate foundation for morality. Armstrong contends that Craig’s position is “incredible”[1] and subject to a “cavalcade of devastating objections.”[2] He goes on to conclude that his criticisms do not just [...]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Ethics · God and Morality · Patrick Nowell Smith · Philosophy of Religion · Richard Mouw · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
MandM win M&M’s
September 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Over the weekend Matt entered one of those count the number of lollies in the jar competitions and won the competition. So last night he brought home his prize, a jar full of jaffa M&M’s. I couldn’t resist sharing a pic of MandM with the M&M’s especially now that we live in Auckland. They are [...]
Tags: M&Ms
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 [...]
Tags: David Farrar · Voluntary Student Membership