I just had a quick look at KiwiBlog and noted David’s piece on the media not properly crediting stories broken by bloggers. This has happened to us on occaision, the Labour Moron sign springs to mind (which, since he put his head above the parapet, David himself failed to hat tip us properly on – […]
Entries from February 9th, 2009
Quiet on the MandM Front
February 9th, 2009 Comments Off on Quiet on the MandM Front
A regular reader complained over the weekend that MandM has been too quiet of late – not enough posts. I had explained some of the reason for this in a comment, but I will do so here so it is not missed. Matt is away in Tauranga doing his teaching diploma for the next two […]
Tags: Announcements
Brink on Dialectical Equilibrium
February 5th, 2009 2 Comments
In my last two posts, I have criticised David Brink’s appeal to scripture in order to argue against the appeal to divine commands in ethics. Brink anticpates the kind of argument I have offered and states, A common theistic response to these interpretative puzzles is to endorse the interpretation of tradition and scripture that yields […]
Tags: David Brink · Ethics · Faith and Reason · God and Morality · Hermeneutics
Christian Blog Rankings for Jan 09 – HalfDone
February 4th, 2009 Comments Off on Christian Blog Rankings for Jan 09 – HalfDone
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on HalfDone’s NZ blog stats for January; these stats are used in the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for January 09: NZ Conservative 7 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone)14 Keeping Stock 23 MandM 25 The Briefing Room 27 Samuel […]
A New Chapter
January 31st, 2009 17 Comments
It is official. I have lost my job; termination due to medical incapacity. This happened last week, the same day I got my news about my recovery setback, but due to the details needing to be sorted I couldn’t say anything til it was official. Yesterday was my goodbye morning tea, Matt and I cleared […]
Tags: Car Accident · Career · Disc Replacement Surgery
Capital Punishment in the Old Testament: 2
January 27th, 2009 20 Comments
In Capital Punishment in the Old Testament: 1 I suggested that the capital sanctions found in The Torah in most cases were not intended to be carried out, that instead there operated an implicit assumption that a person who committed a serious crime had forfeited their life and hence was to pay a ransom as […]
Tags: Capital Punishment · David Brink · David Instone Brewer · Ethics · Gordon Wenham · Hermeneutics · Old Testament Ethics · Theology
Top 10 NZ Christian Blogs December 08
January 26th, 2009 9 Comments
Two New Zealand blog sites run monthly stats ranking the top New Zealand blogs on public discourse, Tumeke and Half Done. Both use different formulae so the stats don’t always come out the same. Previously I have accorded Tumeke’s stats as the official ones and Half Done’s as the shadow report, comparing Half Done’s stats […]
Tags: NZ Christian Blog Rankings · Top 10 NZ Christian Blogs
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.
