Every November there is about a two week period in America where a number of professional academic conferences are held where the best of the best in the field gather. For the last two years Matt has been either accepted or invited to speak at them (I was accepted to speak at them last year […]
Entries Tagged as 'Conferences'
Matt to speak on Singer and Infanticide at 2012 Evangelical Philosophical Society Meeting in Milwaukee
June 18th, 2012 13 Comments
Tags: Evangelical Philosophical Society · Infanticide · Milwaukee · Peter Singer
Thinking Matters Youth Conference
February 16th, 2012 2 Comments
This Saturday is the first, of hopefully many, Thinking Matters Youth Conference, the schedule is below. I am leading a breakout session on Moral Relativism WHEN: Saturday, February 18 WHERE: Greenlane Christian Centre, 17 Marewa Rd, Greenlane, Auckland COST: $10 Schedule: 10am Registration 10.30am Jeff Tallon – Is Science a Threat to Faith? 11.30am Sean […]
Tags: Apologetics · God and Morality · Relativism · Thinking Matters · Tim McGrew
Back from San Francisco: A Belated Report
February 3rd, 2012 2 Comments
MandM has been quite of late, this is because Madeleine and I have been very busy. With moving house in the midst of Christmas and New Years and Madeleine working part-time in a law firm and so on, we’ve had little time to blog. We are now set up, to some extent, and so this […]
Tags: Biblioblog · David Baggett · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Jerry Walls · Paul Copan · Publication; San Francisco · Society of Biblical Literature · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong · William Lane Craig
“Confronting the Challenge of Secularism” Madeleine to Speak at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
August 11th, 2011 13 Comments
Not too long ago I wrote a post entitled We’re Going to San Francisco! In it I announced that in November 2011 Madeleine and I will jointly be giving a paper to the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, and that I will be giving a paper to the Evangelical Philosophical Association Annual Meeting and also […]
Tags: Notre Dame · Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture · Religion in Public Life · San Francisco · South Bend · Vincent Phillip Muñoz
Society of Biblical Literature: Blogger and Online Publication
July 30th, 2011 1 Comment
The Society of Biblical Literature’s program book for their 2011 meeting in San Francisco is now online. The blogger and online publication session for which Matt and I have had a joint paper accepted shows who we are sharing the session with and provides links to brief abstracts for each talk. Blogger and Online Publication […]
Tags: Academia.edu · Alice Bach · Juhana Markus Saukkonen · Richard Price · Robert Cargill · San Francisco · Society of Biblical Literature
The Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association Conference @ Auckland University
July 11th, 2011 4 Comments
The Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association (APRA) conference will be running at the University of Auckland from 16-17 July and will feature this blog’s own Matthew Flannagan and our good friend Glenn Peoples. The APRA conference is an annual event usually taking place over two days in mid July. Speakers include: John Bishop (University of Auckland) Trent Dougherty (Baylor […]
Naturalisms in Ethics Conference @ Auckland Uni
July 10th, 2011 10 Comments
The Naturalisms in Ethics conference will be running at the University of Auckland from 14-15 July and will feature this blog’s own Matthew Flannagan. Here is the blurb from organiser Chris Tucker’s page (which includes registration information – see also the Facebook Event page): ‘Naturalism’ is a multiply ambiguous term—hence the title Naturalisms in Ethics— but it is […]

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.




