On the first Thursday of every month, Auckland bloggers gather for the Bloggers Bar Bash: What: Auckland Bloggers Drinks When: Thursday 5 November from 6.30pm Where: Galbraiths, 2 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland Open to anyone who happens to be in Auckland. Past attendees include bloggers and bloupies from Annie Fox, Not PC, Interest.co.nz, [...]
Entries from October 31st, 2009
Power Cuts and Deadlines
October 30th, 2009 7 Comments
At 12pm today I handed my supervised research project “Religious Restraint and Public Policy” across the counter at the University of Auckland Law School. It felt like quite a moment and it had been quite a morning. Last night I was feeling quietly confident about heading to bed at a sane hour. Matt had given [...]
Tags: Law Studies
Guest Post: Israel – Definitely One Subject Where One “Size-R” Does Not Fit All!
October 27th, 2009 15 Comments
This guest post, part of open mic week(s), is a long, uncharacteristically straight-forward and very interesting submission from Jonny King on Israel. Israel – Definitely One Subject Where One “Size-R” Does Not Fit All! Warning! Reading this could induce uncontrollable urges to spontaneously desire sleep! Recommended for Insomniacs and other freaks! Now I thought that [...]
Tags: Hamas · Israel · Jonny King · War Ethics
Re The Pain in my Neck
October 27th, 2009 7 Comments
I have just come from seeing my orthopedic surgeon to get the results of my recent MRI scan (following injuries sustained in a car accident in March 08). He has recommended more surgery. He wants to remove the disc replacement that was done Dec 08 and replace it with a spinal fusion. I am pretty [...]
Tags: Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery · Spinal Fusion
Guest Post: The Rise and Fall of the New Zealand Christian Blogosphere
October 24th, 2009 7 Comments
ScrubOne has gone back through the New Zealand blog rankings over the past year and documented the rise and fall of the Christan blogs to see if the launch of the MandM Top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings has had observable impact. (This guest post is part of open mic week(s)) A lot of people [...]
Tags: Guest Post · NZ Blog Rankings · ScrubOne
Guest Post: Dan Brown’s History of Science
October 23rd, 2009 135 Comments
This guest post was submitted by Dr James Hannam. Dr Hannam is a UK based historian with degrees in physics and history from the Universities of Oxford and London and a PhD in the history of science from the University of Cambridge. He blogs at Quodlibeta. The film adaptation of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons [...]
Tags: Christian History · Dan Brown · Faith and Reason · Guest Post · James Hannam · Religious History · Science and Religion
My Story: Lousy ACC Cover and Thoughts on the Proposed Changes
October 22nd, 2009 69 Comments
Yesterday I applied for and got a one week extension on my research project as I couldn’t keep up with the necessary pace to finish it by Friday – I was getting too sore. This means that open mic week(s) needs to continue a little longer so please bear with us and do submit a [...]
Tags: ACC · Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery
Common Historical Myths About the Church
October 19th, 2009 5 Comments
This post is part update, part recycle. Earlier on in this blog’s life, I ran a small series of posts last year on common historical myths about the Church that are so pervasive in society that most Christians fall for them. Anyway, after receiving some correspondence, I have updated this post, More on the “Dark [...]
Tags: Christian Blogs · Christian History · Dark · Dark Ages · Faith and Reason · Science and Religion
Guest Post: Having a Beer… for the Glory of God!
October 18th, 2009 11 Comments
As it is still open mic (blog?!) week(s) here are MandM; here is another guest post from Jonny King who, if you have not visited his blog before, you’ll find has a rather distinctive style; he threatened to burn effigies of our blog if we didn’t publish him LOL! Having a Beer… for the Glory [...]
Tags: Beer · Guest Post · Hermeneutics · Jonny King · Theology
