Thinking Matters Youth Conference

February 16th, 2012 by Matt

This Saturday is the first, of hopefully many, Thinking Matters Youth Conference, the schedule is below. I am leading a breakout session on Moral Relativism

WHEN: Saturday, February 18
WHERE: Greenlane Christian Centre, 17 Marewa Rd, Greenlane, Auckland
COST: $10

Schedule:

10am	Registration
10.30am	Jeff Tallon – Is Science a Threat to Faith?
11.30am	Sean McDowell – Is Faith Blind? (via Skype)
12.15pm	Lunch
1pm	Breakout Sessions 1 Stream 1: Is morality relative and does it matter? – Matt Flannagan Stream 2: How can one religion be “right” and the others “wrong”? – Trevor Mander Stream 3: Why doesn’t God do something about the evil in the world? – Ben Carswell Stream 4: Does God get mad when we doubt? – Jason Kumar and Dominic Bnonn Tennant
1.45pm	Breakout Sessions 2 (repeated)
2.30pm	Tim McGrew – Is the Bible Reliable? (via Skype)
3.30pm	Q&A Panel – Jeff Tallon, Ben Carswell, Matt Flannagan, and Trevor Mander
4.15pm	Conference closes

Tags: Apologetics · God and Morality · Relativism · Thinking Matters · Tim McGrew2 Comments

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2 responses so far ↓

Steven
Feb 17, 2012 at 5:15 am

Hi M&M! Interesting blog. The subject ‘Is Faith Blind?’ is an important one and I discuss that very topic in my most recent blog post at http://perfectchaos.org/. I used to be a Christian but found some real problems with Christian theology that I couldn’t overcome. Love to talk it through with people though! Best wishes, Steven
Dicky P
Feb 17, 2012 at 2:52 pm

No Glenno? I would have thought he could have contributed greatly to such a project.