Matt’s mother lost her battle with cancer on Wednesday so we will be offline for a while. Madeleine
Entries Tagged as 'Personal'
Congratulations
November 12th, 2007 1 Comment
I want to take this opportunity to offer congratulation to my friend Glenn People’s over at Beretta on the successful examination of his PhD thesis entitled Religion in the Public Square. In this work Glenn criticizes contemporary liberal thinkers who maintain that religion should be excluded from public life in a liberal democracy. Glenn and […]
Tags: Glenn Peoples · Graduation · Religion in Public Life
Published
October 10th, 2007 Comments Off on Published
This morning I received word that my article Abortion and Capital Punishment : No Contradiction, will be published in one of the next 3-4 issues of Think. I would like to thank Perfect Man whose comments motivated me to submit this section of my thesis for publication.
Tags: Abortion · Feticide · Published · Think Magazine
Not Madeleine Setchell
July 30th, 2007 2 Comments
I wish to clarify that I am not Madeleine Setchell. My maiden name is Richards. Apparently, after I commented on kiwiblog the other day under my usual posting name which is simply ‘Madeleine’ a lot of people jumped to the conclusion that I must be the Madeleine in the story. Whilst there have been instances […]
Tags: David Benson Pope · Madeleine Setchell
Flannagans Leave the Deep South
June 14th, 2007 4 Comments
In our online absence we have been rather busy relocating ourselves from Dunedin to Auckland. After 5 years down south we have left to be closer to family. Its kinda funny cause I used to complain so much about it when we were there but we really miss Dunedin’s antarctic blasts and all the snow […]
A day at the beach in Dunedin
December 29th, 2006 2 Comments
We took the kids to the beach this morning since the sun came out and our 5 year old son had a new red bucket and spade he was eager to make sandcastles with. We found a spot between the flags as close to the water as we could sit, about 8 m, while still […]
Tags: Family
Christmas stockings and kids who won’t sleep!
December 25th, 2006 1 Comment
Just now Matt brought out youngest child, age 5, down to the office. As they approached I could hear that he was sobbing and hysterical and Matt was laughing which I thought odd until I saw him. Each of the kids have oversized, home made Christmas stockings – a stupid idea I came up with […]
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.
