Matt has been invited to speak at the annual Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS) Apologetics Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, USA which runs 18-20 November 2010. He will be speaking alongside some big names in contemporary Christian philosophy including Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig. Experience seasoned teaching by Alvin Plantinga, William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, Greg […]
Entries from July 9th, 2010
EPS Apologetics Conference: God and the Genocide of the Canaanites
July 9th, 2010 9 Comments
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Apologetics · Canaanites · Craig Blomberg · Craig Evans · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Frank Beckwith · Gary Habermas · God and Morality · Greg Koukl · Hermeneutics · Mike Licona · Old Testament Ethics · Paul Copan · Randy Newman · War Ethics · William Lane Craig
Clearing the Air: A Church Leaders Forum on Climate Change
July 6th, 2010 16 Comments
Matt has been asked to deliver the opening talk at the upcoming Clearing the Air Forum on 16-17 July 2010 at Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland. The forum has been organised by New Zealand Christian Network (visionnetwork) and its purpose is to look at the synthesis of science and faith on climate change try to […]
Tags: AGW · Climate Change · New Zealand Christian Network
Bread and Circuses: NZ’s Most Trusted People List
July 5th, 2010 6 Comments
Flicking through the New Zealand Herald the other day reminded me of one of my pet peeves, celebrities being touted as authorities. I found the results of the survey about who New Zealanders most trust. The Readers Digest “New Zealand’s Most Trusted People 2010” were ranked as follows: 1. Corporal Willie Apiata, Victoria Cross recipient 2. […]
Tags: AJ Hackett · Alison Holst · Colin Meads · David Bain · Fair Go · Irene van Dyk · Joe Karam · John Kirwan · Kevin Milne · Margaret Mahy · Most Trusted People · Peter Jackson · Peter Snell · Readers Digest · Valerie Vili · Willie Apiata
Ronald Hendel on Pascal, Evangelicals and The Society of Biblical Literature
July 3rd, 2010 5 Comments
Ronald Hendel, of the Biblical Archeology review, has written a critical piece entitled “Biblical Views: Farewell to SBL“. His beef appears to be that the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) is allowing into its membership, heaven forbid, various “evangelical and fundamentalist groups.” This, he suggests, compromises the group’s scholarly integrity. Much could be said about his […]
Tags: Faith and Reason · Pascal · Ronald Hendel · Society of Biblical Literature
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.
Just Nuke BP’s Oil Leak
July 4th, 2010 2 Comments
Milo Nordyke, one of the masterminds behind US research into peaceful nuclear energy in the 1960s and ’70s and Viktor Mikhailov, a Physicist who served as a Russian Minister of Nuclear Energy, agree on a comparitively cheap solution for BP’s oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico – just nuke it. In what admittedly sounds like […]
Tags: Bill Clinton · BP Oil Leak · Gulf of Mexico · Milo Nordy · Nuclear Bomb · Viktor Mikhailov