Brian Auten of Apologetics 315 has run an essay series through the month of April on the topic “Why is Christianity True?” Brian has accepted 23 submissions from various apologetics bloggers from around the world and has each day posted 1 essay in the series along with a podcast of each. At the end of […]
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Showing Christianity is True at Apologetics 315
May 1st, 2010 9 Comments
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Apologetics · Brian Auten · Faith and Reason · William Alston
Guest Post: Does Tax Exemption for Churches Directly Cost Taxpayers?
April 17th, 2010 152 Comments
Bethyada of True Paradigm offers us this guest post. I find it interesting because I wrote some thoughts about the New Zealand Association of Rationalist Humanist’s position on the issue of religious trusts having tax exemption in Equality or Hegemony: NZARH and Religious Trusts back in 2008. There I pointed out that humanist trusts that […]
Tags: Bethyada · Charity · Ken Perrott · Tax Exemption
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 […]
Tags: European Society of the Philosophy of Religion · Glenn Peoples · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Religion in Public Life
Auckland Bloggers Drinks – This Thursday
April 5th, 2010 5 Comments
On the first Thursday of every month (except for this month because the first Thursday fell on the eve of Good Friday and people tend to go away for Easter weekend) Auckland bloggers gather for the B3 (Bloggers Bar Bash). What: Auckland Bloggers Drinks When: Thursday 8 April from 6.30pm Where: Galbraiths, 2 Mt Eden […]
Tags: Bloggers Drinks · Events
Inerrancy and The Originals: A Response to John FH
April 4th, 2010 3 Comments
John FH of Ancient Hebrew Poetry has written a thoughtful hazing of some of my posts on inerrancy, Inerrancy and Biblical Authority and Two Forms of Inerrancy. The points he raised are issues worth taking up. John’s first concern is that the two conceptions of inerrancy I set out, those of Verbal Plenary Inspiration (VPI) […]
Tags: Ancient Hebrew Poetry · Inerrancy · John FH
Can State Expropriation of Minerals be Justified? Part II
March 9th, 2010 6 Comments
In Can State Expropriation of Minerals be Justified? Part I, I set out a common law property rights argument drawing from the writings of jurists Blackstone and Locke as well as contemporary philosopher Ed Feser. I looked at what circumstances, if any, might justify the state taking of real property, looking specifically at minerals from […]
Tags: Case of Mines · Crown Minerals Act 1991 · Edward Feser · James Parcell · John Locke · Kevin Counsell · Lewis Evans · Neil Quigley · Property Rights · Rights and Freedoms · Sub-Soil Land Rights · Takings · William Blackstone
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 New Zealand Herald prints “The F Word”
March 30th, 2010 Comments Off on The New Zealand Herald prints “The F Word”
The New Zealand Herald published “The F Word” in their online lifestyle section today. No need to head over to Cactus Kate’s now to read the whole thing online… [“The F Word” was an article on the shifting perceptions of contemporary feminism published in Saturday’s Canvas (NZ Herald magazine insert). At least six women were […]
Tags: Cactus Kate · Feminism · MandM in Print · New Zealand Herald