Bethyada explores the morality of lying. (This guest post is part of open mic week(s)) There are a range of Christian theories on the moral acceptability of lying. The issues around lying seem difficult to fully categorise in English. The problem is a lack of simple words to express subtle differences in meaning. To illustrate […]
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Guest Post: The Rise and Fall of the New Zealand Christian Blogosphere
October 24th, 2009 7 Comments
ScrubOne has gone back through the New Zealand blog rankings over the past year and documented the rise and fall of the Christan blogs to see if the launch of the MandM Top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings has had observable impact. (This guest post is part of open mic week(s)) A lot of people […]
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Guest Post: Dan Brown’s History of Science
October 23rd, 2009 135 Comments
This guest post was submitted by Dr James Hannam. Dr Hannam is a UK based historian with degrees in physics and history from the Universities of Oxford and London and a PhD in the history of science from the University of Cambridge. He blogs at Quodlibeta. The film adaptation of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons […]
Tags: Christian History · Dan Brown · Faith and Reason · Guest Post · James Hannam · Religious History · Science and Religion
Guest Post: Having a Beer… for the Glory of God!
October 18th, 2009 11 Comments
As it is still open mic (blog?!) week(s) here are MandM; here is another guest post from Jonny King who, if you have not visited his blog before, you’ll find has a rather distinctive style; he threatened to burn effigies of our blog if we didn’t publish him LOL! Having a Beer… for the Glory […]
Tags: Beer · Guest Post · Hermeneutics · Jonny King · Theology
Guest Post: Corruption Rampant in Student Unions Throughout New Zealand
October 16th, 2009 1 Comment
Andy Moore penned this guest post. It follows nicely on from ScrubOne’s: “Free hamburgers and sausage sizzle, $5 jugs of beer” read the advertisement in the student magazine CANTA, a week or so before the University of Canterbury Student Association’s (UCSA) AGM. The quorum for the AGM is 120 students as established in the constitution, […]
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Snowed
October 15th, 2009 8 Comments
Matt and I are really snowed this week (as alluded to recently). If anyone wishes to submit a guest post please do. If we like it enough to use it we’ll link to your blog so you’ll get some traffic, a link… the satisfaction of being a good samaritan… We have no issue with cross-posting […]
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Guest Post: Laidlaw College’s Mark Strom Responds to Critics
October 21st, 2008 14 Comments
Some weeks ago I wrote a review on the launch of Laidlaw College. I commented on the new vision for the future and my own reflections and frustrations of studying at its previous incarnation, Bible College of New Zealand. The comments section of this post saw the eruption of strong sentiment and criticism of Laidlaw […]
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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.
