This morning on my way to work I turned on Newstalk ZB to find that Madeleine and her recent ACC victory were the topic of Leighton Smith’s morning show – Kerre McIvor was filling in. Madeleine ended up speaking to Kerre on air – you can listen here: Or download here: NewstalkZB have also reported on the […]
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Madeleine speaking to Kerre McIvor on Newstalk ZB re Flannagan v ACC
September 12th, 2013 24 Comments
Tags: ACC · Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery · Newstalk ZB
Flannagan v ACC – Victory
September 12th, 2013 13 Comments
Long time readers of this blog will remember than 5 1/2 years ago I was in a car accident that saw me suffer a herniated cervical (neck) disc and require disc replacement surgery. Readers will also be aware that the pain I lived (live) with did not end after that surgery and that when the […]
Tags: ACC · Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery
Flannagan v ACC: 5 Years on, an Update
March 23rd, 2013 5 Comments
On Tuesday 26 March 2013 it will be 5 years since I was in a car accident that destroyed a cervical disc and saw me need surgery to have an artificial disc inserted and which left me with an ongoing pain condition and a habit of dropping things and having tingly episodes in my hands – still! […]
Tags: ACC · Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery
Christian Flannagan Placed in The Trusts Art Scholarship 2012
August 10th, 2012 2 Comments
Matt and I were very proud that last night at the Lopdell House Art Gallery our son Christian Flannagan was awarded 3rd place in the The Trusts Art Scholarship 2012 for West Auckland students who intend to enter go to Art School next year. Christian entered one of his animations as he intends to study animation at […]
Tags: Christian Flannagan · Oblivion Fall · The Trusts Art Scholarship 2012
Jesus, Hot Cross Buns, Easter Eggs, Ishtar and Constantine: Is Easter Pagan? Tim McGrew says No!
April 6th, 2012 24 Comments
Easter can be annoying. My kids all want chocolate, this year the hot cross buns sold out and Matt brought crumpets home from the supermarket instead. People who don’t normally have any time for Christianity suddenly feel they must go to church, whilst some of my Christian friends refuse to let their children eat chocolate […]
Tags: Constantine · Easter · Ishtar · Pat Brittenden · Radio Rhema · Tim McGrew
Alvin Plantinga Calling for an Argument
February 4th, 2012 6 Comments
We moved house recently but before we got the telephone services disconnected at our old house we rescued this answer-phone message left by our then 9 year old son Noah for Matt – note the attempted American accent: Alvin Calling (Noah had no idea how we worked out it wasn’t really Alvin Plantinga.)
Tags: Alvin Plantinga
Madeleine Admitted to the Bar
June 24th, 2011 25 Comments
This morning my children and I sat in the Auckland High Court to watch Madeleine be admitted to the Bar. The ceremony had the solemn pomp and formality of Barristers wigs, robes and when Madeleine spoke for the first time in open court as an enrolled Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand she […]
Tags: Law Studies
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.
