Yesterday Matt went the library and did a little reading for his upcoming Evangelical Philosophical Society paper “Peter Singer, Human Dignity, and Infanticide“ and he discovered that email exchange he’d had with Peter Singer in 2006 had resulted in a few paragraphs in Singer’s book Peter Singer Under Fire: The Moral Iconoclast Faces His Critics. Here is […]
Entries Tagged as 'Personal'
My Faith Journey
June 22nd, 2012 8 Comments
Like Jacob in the book of Genesis, my spiritual journey has been one of wrestling with God. Not physical wrestling, like that engaged in by Jacob, but wrestling intellectually with the questions and implications that have arisen from my realisation that God exists and Jesus Christ actually, in reality, rose from the grave. I was […]
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On fearing God more than men
June 16th, 2012 6 Comments
I do a lot of things that seem to scare other people. I run this blog; I think up ideas and put them forward in public in a context where I invite criticism on them, I risk falling flat on my face and looking stupid as I do so. I engage in this blog and […]
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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
Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics – Available on Kindle or Pre-Order the Book, Feat. William Lane Craig, Paul Copan, JP Moreland, Gary Habermas, Matthew Flannagan et al.
March 22nd, 2012 12 Comments
The kindle edition of Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics, published by B&H Academic, edited by William Lane Craig and Paul Copan and featuring Craig, Copan, JP Moreland, Gary Habermas, Craig Keener, Mary Jo Sharp, this blog’s Matthew Flannagan, and others, with the foreword written by Rick Warren, is now available at the […]
Tags: Amazon · Apologetics · Craig Keener · Gary Habermas · JP Moreland · Kindle · Mary-Jo Sharp · Paul Copan · Philosophy of Religion · William Lane Craig
True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenges of Atheism – on Kindle
March 21st, 2012 63 Comments
The kindle edition of new book featuring responses to the New Atheists, aimed to be readable at the popular level entitled True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenges of Atheism is now available on Amazon. This blog’s Matthew Flannagan contributed to a chapter in it alongside William Lane Craig, Sean McDowell and others. Matt’s chapter […]
Tags: Amazon · Carson Weitnauer · Chuck Edwards · David Marshall · David Wood · Glenn Sunshine · John DePoe · John Loftus · Matthew Flannagan · New Atheists · Peter Grice · Randy Hardman · Richard Dawkins · Sam Harris · Samuel Youngs · Tom Gilson · True Reason · William Lane Craig
Madeleine Registered
February 19th, 2012 6 Comments
News that many may have missed while we were in our moving house and not blogging mode is that Madeleine has been admitted to the Register of Lawyers, this means that she may now practice law and work in the areas restricted by law for lawyers. You can even go to the New Zealand Law […]
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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.
