Peter Cresswell has an update on blogger Anna Woolf‘s battle with cancer which is very near the end. We met Anna on my and her birthday in April this year at bloggers drinks and have enjoyed her company and shared laughs and swapped pain meds at each bloggers drinks since. We have not known her […]
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This one’s for Anna Woolf
December 1st, 2009 Comments Off on This one’s for Anna Woolf
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Auckland Bloggers Drinks – This Thursday UPDATE
November 27th, 2009 2 Comments
On the first Thursday of every month, Auckland bloggers gather for the B3 (Bloggers Bar Bash). This one will be the last one of 2009 and will be an opportunity to toast Anna Woolf so be there! What: Auckland Bloggers Drinks When: Thursday 3 December from 6.30pm Where: The Cavalier, 68 College Hill Road, Ponsonby, […]
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Wellington Bloggers Drinks on Friday!!
November 26th, 2009 Comments Off on Wellington Bloggers Drinks on Friday!!
The Wellington bloggers drinks are this Friday and we’ll be there so come along! What: Wellington Bloggers Drinks When: Friday 27 November from 7:00pm Where: Backbencher Pub, 34 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington See you there!
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Of Papers, Jobs, Weddings and TV Shows
November 19th, 2009 2 Comments
We have had, and are in for, an interesting few weeks. Last week I finished my studies for 2009 with my Legal Ethics exam and enrolled to complete the final two papers of my LLB (bachelor of law) in 2010. This week Matt handed in his final piece of assessment for his post graduate diploma […]
Tags: Abortion · Filia Day · Law Studies · Teaching Diploma · TV Shows
Richard Dawkins on Thinking Matters
November 13th, 2009 44 Comments
According to Richard Dawkins, New Zealand apologetics blog, Thinking Matters Talk, “makes for some interesting browsing.” The recommendation of Rob Ward’s blog post, Sarfati reviews Dawkins’ ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’, has seen a deluge traffic arrive. (This pleases us because we are part of Thinking Matters and are listed as contributors to Thinking Matters […]
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Guest Post: The Common Good – An Emergent Phenomenon
November 12th, 2009 13 Comments
This guest post comes from Nyokodo of And All These Things…. Catholic social teaching stresses that civil government should seek the common good. This post contains some critical commentary as to how to understand and apply the common good. The documents of the Church and the writings of most socially minded scholars are replete with […]
Tags: Common Good · Guest Post · Nyokodo · Public Policy
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.
The NZ Herald on Cactus Kate and Priorities in Journalism Ethics
November 17th, 2009 8 Comments
There is an interesting story unfolding in the blogosphere. Cactus Kate published extracts of APN News and Media’s guidelines for publication on her blog in, APN Chicken Out, and inserted her own commentary and spin on them based on email correspondence from staff members working for APN’s publications. Where it gets really interesting is that […]
Tags: Cactus Kate · Journalism Ethics · New Zealand Herald