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 […]
Entries from October 22nd, 2009
My Story: Lousy ACC Cover and Thoughts on the Proposed Changes
October 22nd, 2009 68 Comments
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
Guest Post: Corruption Rampant in Student Unions Throughout New Zealand
October 16th, 2009 1 Comment
Andy Moore penned this guest post. It follows nicely on from ScrubOne’s: “Free hamburgers and sausage sizzle, $5 jugs of beer” read the advertisement in the student magazine CANTA, a week or so before the University of Canterbury Student Association’s (UCSA) AGM. The quorum for the AGM is 120 students as established in the constitution, […]
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Guest Post: VUWSA’s VSM Violations
October 16th, 2009 7 Comments
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When ScrubOne sent us this offering as a guest post we couldn’t resist. This sort of thing has been happening for years and we saw it a lot back at Waikato University but that was pre-You Tube…gotta love the internet. DPF links to some videos of a student meeting held at the University of Wellington […]
Tags: Guest Post · Voluntary Student Membership · VUWSA
Christian Libertarian Blog Carnival September 09
October 15th, 2009 Comments Off on Christian Libertarian Blog Carnival September 09
The September 2009 edition of The Christian Libertarian Blog Carnival is out now; head on over to The Holy Cause and check out the good reads on offer. Matt’s Sunday Study, R 13: Romans, Revelations and the Role of the State was featured this month.
Snowed
October 15th, 2009 8 Comments
Matt and I are really snowed this week (as alluded to recently). If anyone wishes to submit a guest post please do. If we like it enough to use it we’ll link to your blog so you’ll get some traffic, a link… the satisfaction of being a good samaritan… We have no issue with cross-posting […]
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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.
