This post is part update, part recycle. Earlier on in this blog’s life, I ran a small series of posts last year on common historical myths about the Church that are so pervasive in society that most Christians fall for them. Anyway, after receiving some correspondence, I have updated this post, More on the “Dark […]
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Common Historical Myths About the Church
October 19th, 2009 5 Comments
Tags: Christian Blogs · Christian History · Dark · Dark Ages · Faith and Reason · Science and Religion
Wet Paint: MandM Live at WordPress
September 3rd, 2009 22 Comments
Welcome to the WordPress version of MandM. We are now open for business, there are a few navigational things still under construction and being tweaked so please bear with us as we sort these but you should be able to read and comment with no problem.
Tags: Blog Upgrades · Wordpress
This Week in Auckland: Bloggers Drinks & Thinking Matters
August 31st, 2009 Comments Off on This Week in Auckland: Bloggers Drinks & Thinking Matters
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 Comments Off on Wet Paint: Forced to Echo UPDATE
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 16 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 Comments Off on Sunday Study
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 Comments Off on Hear Dr Matthew Flannagan speak on “In Defence of Divine Commands”
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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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.
