It is that time of the year for those of us engaged in study; deadlines are imminent, exams loom, stress abounds and tunnel vision sets in. For us here are MandM this directly affects 3 members of our family, Matt, Sheridan and myself, all engaged in tertiary study and to a lesser degree, Christian in […]
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MandM win M&M’s
September 23rd, 2009 Comments Off on MandM win M&M’s
Over the weekend Matt entered one of those count the number of lollies in the jar competitions and won the competition. So last night he brought home his prize, a jar full of jaffa M&M’s. I couldn’t resist sharing a pic of MandM with the M&M’s especially now that we live in Auckland. They are […]
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Published – Three Strikes: Proportion and Protection
September 22nd, 2009 2 Comments
The editor of the New Zealand Law Students Association (NZLSA) publication LEX has just advised me that she has published my article “Three Strikes: Proportion and Protection.” In it I argue that the objections to the The Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill (a.k.a the “Three Strikes Bill”) on the basis that it affronts the proportionality […]
Tags: Public Policy · Publication · Punishment · Three Strikes Bill
In Pursuit of an LLB – Some News!
August 7th, 2009 19 Comments
I have some news!!! Official as of this morning: this semester, instead of doing one of the elective papers on offer to 4th year law students, I will be undertaking Supervised Research on freedom of religion with the Academic Dean, Professor Paul Rishworth, described on the Law School’s faculty page as “the country’s leading legal […]
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Transport Stress UPDATED
August 5th, 2009 3 Comments
The last few days have really been stressful in terms of transport issues. As Matt mentioned on the way to my grandfather’s memorial our family car broke down and was diagnosed with a fairly major condition. Then when I got to the memorial late I was loaned my grandfather’s car which I then had to […]
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Tribute to Mark Richards: Poet, Writer, Teacher, Sailor, Musician and My Grandfather
August 2nd, 2009 Comments Off on Tribute to Mark Richards: Poet, Writer, Teacher, Sailor, Musician and My Grandfather
On the ferry to Waiheke Island yesterday as I watched all the Hauraki Gulf’s islands pass me by I remembered the hours I had spent on those waters as a child on my Grandfather Mark’s boat. I told my children as they too looked out the ferry window that I had been on that beach, […]
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Taking a Break
July 20th, 2009 6 Comments
My grandfather died last night from complications following the flu. We are not in the headspace to post just now, our focus is on family but don’t feel like you have to stop commenting or anything. Back soon 🙂
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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.
