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This Week in Auckland: Bloggers Drinks & Thinking Matters

August 31st, 2009 No Comments

Don’t forget: Tomorrow night’s Thinking Matters Auckland Seminar: David Lindsey on “Politics, Religion and Morality” at 7:00pm, Tues 1 Sept, in Lecture Room 2, Laidlaw College, 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson, West Auckland Thursday night’s Auckland Bloggers Drinks from 6.30pm at Galbraiths, Thurs 3 Sept, 2 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland. See you there

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Wet Paint: Forced to Echo UPDATE

August 26th, 2009 No Comments

This morning comments just would not even load in either Firefox or Explorer so I was forced to switch over to JS Kit’s Echo. Now now comments look awful but at least you can read them. I will do my best to modify the code today to make them look a bit tidier – I [...]

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Echo Comments UPDATED

August 7th, 2009 17 Comments

Sorry all, it appears that between last nights bloggers drinks and this morning JS-Kit have switched us over to their Echo upgrade for comments which has effectively wrecked the hours of work I, along with the help of Bethyada and Stephanie, put into making comments appear seamlessly integrated and appears to no longer give you [...]

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Sunday Study

August 2nd, 2009 No Comments

There will be no Sunday Study this week as the past week has been taken up with preparing for the memorial service on Waiheke Island, the Faith and Science conference I spoke at yesterday and two other deadlines for written work due Friday; and on top of all that, our family car blew its head [...]

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Hear Dr Matthew Flannagan speak on “In Defence of Divine Commands”

July 25th, 2009 No Comments

You’re invited to a Thinking Matters Auckland, God, Morality and Society, event: What: Dr Matthew Flannagan speaking on “In Defence of Divine Commands”When: Tuesday 4th August – 7:00pmWhere: Lecture Room 2, Laidlaw College, 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson, West AucklandFormat: Talk followed by questions, answers and discussion.Cost: Free but donations are appreciated Are God’s commands [...]

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Taking a Break

July 20th, 2009 6 Comments

My grandfather died last night from complications following the flu. We are not in the headspace to post just now, our focus is on family but don’t feel like you have to stop commenting or anything. Back soon

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April with MandM

May 2nd, 2009 2 Comments

April was another busy month for us. We had just over 4,500 unique visitors, another record high for us, and we had our highest ever stat day (since keeping stats) that saw us have 600 page views in one 24 hour period. Further, HalfDone’s half-April stats reported we were in the position of 6th most [...]

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March with MandM

March 31st, 2009 No Comments

March was a busy month for us; we had dipped in output through December and January following my surgery, and February was kind of the acceleration month where we regained speed, but this month was as close to top gear as we can realistically get given we have 4 kids, I am permanently injured, we [...]

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Quiet on the MandM Front

February 9th, 2009 No Comments

A regular reader complained over the weekend that MandM has been too quiet of late – not enough posts. I had explained some of the reason for this in a comment, but I will do so here so it is not missed. Matt is away in Tauranga doing his teaching diploma for the next two [...]

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Rest In Peace Richard Neuhaus

January 12th, 2009 No Comments

It is with sadness that I have just read that Richard John Neuhaus died on Thursday the 8th of January at age 72. There are various obituaries hereFor those New Zealand readers who won’t know. Neuhaus was a Lutheran turned Catholic priest who wrote and commented extensively on issues of religion and public life. His [...]

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