Does anyone have a Sid the Sloth toy from the Ice Age movie series? Sid is our son Noah’s favourite character and his McDonalds Sid toy is his favourite toy. Whilst away at Mt Maunganui this weekend, Sid has vanished. He was last seen flying off the top of the 6 storey apartment building we […]
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Moderation
October 19th, 2010 9 Comments
Apologies everyone, it has become necessary to turn comment moderation on. There is a limit to how much time we want to spend removing off-topic, sexually loaded and personally abusive comments left by school-boys each day. We will try to clear and release comments a few times a day. I am working through my Certificate […]
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Moving
August 16th, 2010 8 Comments
Due to MandM’s steady growth in traffic it has become necessary to move to a gruntier server. So stand by as we are moving forthwith! There is a risk that any comments left in the next few hours might be lost so for the next 24 hours please save a copy of your comments in […]
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Oxford Calling… Can you Help Glenn Peoples?
April 9th, 2010 11 Comments
The 18th Conference of the European Society of the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Oxford is on “Religion in the Public Square” and will feature my favourite philosopher (next to Matt of course) Professor Nicholas Wolterstorff and New Zealand’s own Glenn Peoples who blogs and produces brilliant podcasts at Say Hello to my […]
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Happy Birthday Madeleine
April 2nd, 2010 8 Comments
Today is Madeleine’s 37th birthday. I write this to say to Madeleine, from myself and the kids, that we love you, we are proud of you and we hope you have a great day. Matt
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Where are we?
March 25th, 2010 4 Comments
The observant will have noticed that we have not been blogging much lately. Sorry about that but we are so flat out it is ridiculous! Matt is working full-time teaching and I have a really full-on study load at the moment. I am Mooting this semester and have mooting deadlines coming at me head on […]
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Distractions
January 26th, 2010 Comments Off on Distractions
I have a summer school assignment due in on Friday (US readers, I am not repeating anything I’m just getting ahead) and we have family stuff happening which is rather distracting to say the least, so sorry for the absence of posts, it shouldn’t last too much longer. Matt has written a lengthy followup post […]
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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.




