Just a reminder (and announcement) of the various upcoming events you can catch Matt speaking at, in Auckland and in Hamilton, over the coming month: Friday 4 Feb @ 3 pm Auckland Reason & Science Society “Divine Command Theory” Saturday 5 Feb @ 3.15 pm Pro Life Tour 2011 – Auckland Workshops “Pro-Life Apologetics: Answering Arguments for Abortion” […]
Entries from February 4th, 2011
Don’t Miss Matt in February UPDATED
February 4th, 2011 2 Comments
Tags: Events · Pro Life NZ · Reason and Science Society · Riverhead Presbyterian Church · Takanini Community Church
Category 5 Cyclone Yasi About to Land in Queensland – My Parents are in Port Douglas UPDATE 2
February 2nd, 2011 2 Comments
Last night my mother contacted me to tell there was a cyclone warning in Port Douglas and she was doing the whole preparedness thing – checking food supplies, elevating important furniture and household documents and so on. At this time of the year in Port Douglas, where she and my stepfather live this is nothing […]
Tags: Cyclone Yasi · Port Douglas · Queensland
Top 50 Biblioblogs for January 2011
February 2nd, 2011 9 Comments
Every month the list of the top 50 Biblioblogs on the web gets published. Here are the top 10 for January 2011: Rank Blogger Blog Name 1 Jim West Zwinglius Redivivus 2 Joel L. Watts Unsettled Christianity 3 Brian LePort Near Emmaus: Christ and Text 4 Marc Cortez Scientia et Sapientia 5 Matt & Madeleine […]
Tags: Biblioblog · Blog Rankings
Contra Mundum: Is God a 21st Century Western Liberal?
February 1st, 2011 15 Comments
On 11 September 2001 Islamic terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Centre killing thousands of innocent people. Ostensibly they did this because they believed God commanded them to do so. This event has invigorated a fear latent in the Western psyche since the 17th century when wars of religion tore Europe apart, the […]
Tags: 9/11 · Contra Mundum · God and Morality · Hermeneutics · J J Finkelstein · Raymond Bradley · Raymond Westbrook · Robert Adams · World Trade Centre
Pro Life Tour: Hear Jill Stanek, Bryan Kemper, Glenn Peoples, Brendan Malone and Matthew Flannagan
January 31st, 2011 305 Comments
Student group Pro-Life New Zealand brought have popular pro-life speakers Jill Stanek and Bryan Kemper out from the US for a nationwide tour of New Zealand. Pro Life Tour 2011 31 Jan Wellington 1 Feb Palmerston North 2 – 3 Feb Christchurch 4 Feb Dunedin 5 Feb Auckland 7 Feb Hamilton Most centres will have day workshops […]
Tags: Abortion · Brendan Malone · Bryan Kemper · Ethics · Feticide · Glenn Peoples · Jill Stanek · Pro Life NZ
Maori Animism: New Zealand’s Established Religion
January 30th, 2011 293 Comments
New Zealand, along with all nations, is acutely religious. But, more than most Western countries, the dominant religion is now the Established Religion. We are using “established” in the historical sense of a religion prescribed and protected, so that all citizens must respect and honour that particular religion’s beliefs and practices. Established religion is the […]
Tags: Maori Animism · Phil Mohi · Religion in Public Life · State Religion
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.
Atheist Posters: University Intolerance is Suddenly News?
February 3rd, 2011 32 Comments
Last night I watched a section on TV3’s Campbell Live about the treatment of a campus atheist club at the University of Lincoln entitled “Atheist uni students’ posters torn down” (follow the link to view the video). This story went into detail about how the clubs posters have been regularly ripped down and defaced. The […]
Tags: Atheist Club · Campbell Live · Natasha Utting · University of Lincoln