On the first Thursday of every month bloggers who happen to be in Auckland gather for the B3 (Bloggers Bar Bash). What: Auckland Bloggers Drinks When: Thursday 5 August from 6.30pm Where: Galbraiths, 2 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland Who: Bloggers, blog readers, blog trolls Past blogging celebrities in attendance include bloggers, blog readers and […]
Entries from July 27th, 2010
Auckland Bloggers Drinks – First Thursday in August
July 27th, 2010 26 Comments
Tags: Bloggers Drinks
Middleton Grange, Free Exercise and the Gay Rights Movement UPDATED
July 26th, 2010 284 Comments
Over at GayNZ.com’s Proclamations of the Red Queen blog, Craig Young is in a celebratory mood. Middleton Grange, a Reformed Evangelical Christian school has been forced by law to pay reparations and have their management undergo “human rights education” because they dismissed a netball coach on the grounds that he openly engaged in homosexual conduct. Middleton […]
Tags: Craig Young · Free Exercise · Freedom of Religion · GayNZ.com · Homosexual Conduct · Human Rights · Human Rights Commission · Middleton Grange · Rights and Freedoms
Forum on the Family 2010
July 25th, 2010 8 Comments
This year’s Family First Forum on the Family is almost upon us. On Friday 6 August 2010 people will converge on the Life Convention Centre in Auckland and listen to various speakers, participate in discussion, down coffee, eat yummy food and network on issues surrounding policies that affect families. Matt and I have been going […]
Tags: Aric Sigman · Bob McCoskrie · Family First · Forum on the Family · Judy Bailey · Melinda Tankard Reist · Tuhoe Isaac
Epistemology 101: Clash of Authorities Part III
July 24th, 2010 26 Comments
This three-part blog series is essentially the talk I gave at the recent Clearing the Air Forum, which was entitled “Discovering Truth in the Synthesis of Science and Faith.” The audience was comprised of scientists, church leaders, journalists and other interested parties so this is a fairly lay introduction to epistemology. In my first post, […]
Tags: AGW · Alvin Plantinga · Climate Change · Epistemology · Faith and Reason · Science and Religion · Scientism
Hear Matt Preach on Acts
July 22nd, 2010 6 Comments
Matt will be preaching on a passage in the Book of Acts (he is still working on which passage) at our sister church, Riverhead Presbyterian on the corner of Arthur and Gt North Rds, Riverhead, Auckland at the 10am service this Sunday 25 July. It is a small congregation and a wee bit of a […]
Tags: Acts · Preaching · Riverhead Presbyterian Church
Finally! The Words I Have Waited 17 Years to See
July 22nd, 2010 22 Comments
I just logged into nDeva, the University of Auckland’s student records intranet and I just now read the words I have been waiting to read since my first day at Waikato Law School back on 1 March 1993: After everything I went through to get here, as I shared some of in my post In […]
Tags: Law Studies
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.
Epistemology 101: Science, Faith and Authority Part II
July 21st, 2010 12 Comments
This three-part blog series is essentially the talk I gave at the recent Clearing the Air Forum, which was entitled “Discovering Truth in the Synthesis of Science and Faith.” The audience was comprised of scientists, church leaders, journalists and other interested parties so this is a fairly lay introduction to epistemology. In my first post, […]
Tags: AGW · Clear · Climate Change · Epistemology · Faith and Reason · Greg Dawes · John Locke · Keisha Castle-Hughs · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Richard Dawkins · Roy Clouser · Science and Religion