Few things are thought to be more morally pernicious than the practice of judging others. Sometimes this is given a theological spin with people citing the Sermon on the Mount “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure [...]
Entries from January 29th, 2010
Contra Mundum: The Judgmental Jesus
January 29th, 2010 22 Comments
Tags: Contra Mundum · Ethics · Hermeneutics · Investigate Magazine · Judging
Christian Carnival CCCXII
January 28th, 2010 6 Comments
Welcome to MandM, a New Zealand based philosophy of religion, ethics, theology, jurisprudence and social commentary blog and host of the CCCXXII edition of the Christian Carnival. This edition of the carnival features a great selection of Christian blog postings from the past week around the web, so take a look around, peruse what is [...]
Tags: Blog Carnival · Christian Carnival II · The Christian Carnival
John Loftus’ The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails
January 26th, 2010 9 Comments
John Loftus will soon release his new book The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails. As many readers will be aware John Loftus and the authors of this blog are not strangers to one another so it may not be much of a surprise to discover that the blurbs page of Loftus’ new book features very [...]
Tags: John Loftus
Distractions
January 26th, 2010 No Comments
I have a summer school assignment due in on Friday (US readers, I am not repeating anything I’m just getting ahead) and we have family stuff happening which is rather distracting to say the least, so sorry for the absence of posts, it shouldn’t last too much longer. Matt has written a lengthy followup post [...]
Tags: Announcements
Christian Blog Carnival CCCXI
January 21st, 2010 4 Comments
The Christian Carnival CCCXI is out now at Fish and Cans. There is a good range in this edition so check it out – it is a good way to discover new blogs. Matt’s post, Inerrancy and Biblical Authority, was featured. We here at MandM are hosting the next Christian Carnival, which will be out [...]
Tags: The Christian Carnival
Can State Appropriation of Minerals in Privately Held Land be Justified? Resources Needed
January 20th, 2010 18 Comments
I am currently undertaking my second-to-last paper in pursuit of my Bachelor of Law (LLB). Due to a complicated bunch of factors involving the potential staleness of my papers, if I do not apply to the New Zealand Council of Legal Education for a completion certificate with an LLB and a Professional Legal Studies certificate [...]
Tags: Jurisprudence · Law Studies · Minerals · Mining Law · Property Rights · Sub-Soil Land Rights
Sunday Study: Inerrancy and Biblical Authority
January 18th, 2010 45 Comments
Recently Glenn Peoples and Dominic Bnonn Tennant had an interesting exchange over the issue of biblical inerrancy, the doctrine, that the bible contains no errors. In his post, Errantly Assuming Inerrancy in History, Peoples makes this interesting comment, While there has always been a clear expression of the view that what Scripture teaches is correct, [...]
Tags: David Brink · Dominic Bnonn Tennant · Glenn Peoples · Inerrancy · Michael Tooley · Sunday Study
Methodology behind the Real Climate Change Science Hockey Stick Graph
January 16th, 2010 7 Comments
You’ll recall the groundbreaking announcement we made in our post Another Climate Change Science Hockey Stick Graph where we revealed the alarming hockey-stick shaped incline in the number of climate change scientists practising in the world today. In that post we suggested that if the trends continued the numbers were unsustainable. Yesterday we intercepted, stole, [...]
Tags: AGW · Climate Change · Climategate · Global Warming · Hockey Stick Graph · Murray Hill
The “Three Strikes Bill” Moves Forward
January 19th, 2010 2 Comments
I am cautiously optimistic at today’s announcement that the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill a.k.a. the “Three Strikes Bill” will be moving forward as part of the government’s legislative program. In my post Three Strikes: Proportion and Protection, which was published in the New Zealand Law Students Association publication LEX, I argued that the “apparent [...]
Tags: Justice · Public Policy · Punishment · Three Strikes Bill