If you tuned in to Radio Rhema at 11:45am (NZ time) on 16 August 2012 you would have heard this blog’s Matthew Flannagan and Craig Heilmann discuss the ethics of euthanasia, the Beast of Blenheim – if not Whanganui then where should he live, and should all Olympic countries have anti-doping systems on “The Panel” on Pat […]
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Matt on Euthanasia, the Beast of Blenheim, Olympic Anti-Doping on “The Panel” – with Craig Heilmann
August 16th, 2012 Comments Off on Matt on Euthanasia, the Beast of Blenheim, Olympic Anti-Doping on “The Panel” – with Craig Heilmann
Tags: Craig Heilmann · Media · Pat Brittenden · Radio Rhema · The Panel
Ethics in Journalism – Hear Matt’s Interview on Radio Rhema
July 23rd, 2011 6 Comments
On Thursday Matt was interviewed on Radio Rhema by their breakfast host, Tim Sisarich, on the topic of ethics in journalism. This was in the wake of the media frenzy over the Israelis killed in the Christchurch earthquake and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key’s rebuttal to claims that they were spies. The Murdoch saga was […]
Tags: Journalism Ethics · Radio Rhema · Tim Sisarich
Klingon Cloaking Devices Unmasked by Boat People
July 15th, 2011 15 Comments
It was inevitable. Sooner or later a boat filled with desperate people would set out from India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, whatever, for New Zealand. We have been “protected” to date only by an accident of geography–New Zealand’s relative distance. Australia has faced the problem for decades. A group of Sri Lankan poor (allegedly Tamils previously […]
Tags: Human Rights · Rights and Freedoms · Sri Lankan Boat People
Macsyna King, Representative of the Coming Race
July 8th, 2011 13 Comments
We are simple souls, and so find ourselves “conflicted” (to use pop psych jargon) over the public vituperate venting about one Macsyna King. How we love a mob. All heat and no light. A dirty bomb. Macsyna is coming out of the closet via a book, Breaking Silence: The Kahui Case, written by Ian Wishart. The mob […]
Tags: Chris and Cru Kahui · Due Process · Ian Wishart · Investigate Magazine · Macsyna King · Welfare
Easy Dupes: Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari “Gay Girl in Damascus”
July 3rd, 2011 7 Comments
Narratives are powerful. They control what we identify as significant data or facts, how we empirically apprehend the data, what interpretations and shades of significance we place upon the evidence, and the conclusions drawn. Absolute objectivity is impossible. Only relative neutrality and disinterestedness are possible. The cut of our jib determines the winds we catch […]
Tags: Amina Abdallah Arraf al Omari · Gay Girl in Damascus · Homosexual Conduct · Islam · Israel · Palestine · Paula Brooks · Syria · Tom MacMaster
Aslan is Not a Tame Lion: The Christchurch Earthquake Beyond Our Questions
April 16th, 2011 14 Comments
In the aftermath of the second Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand, “official” Christian spokesmen were exercised to assure people that God, the Living God, had nothing to do with earthquakes. They defalcated. Their theodicy was that their god was absent. In the face of likely outrage, church officials revealed that they worship, in fact, the […]
Tags: Aslan · Chris Trotter · Christchurch Earthquake · Problem of Evil
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.
Matt on the Waitangi Tribunal, Confessional Confidence on “The Panel” – with Craig Heilmann
July 20th, 2012 Comments Off on Matt on the Waitangi Tribunal, Confessional Confidence on “The Panel” – with Craig Heilmann
If you tuned in to Radio Rhema at 11:45am (NZ time) on 19 July 2012 you would have heard this blog’s Matthew Flannagan and Craig Heilmann discuss topical issues such as the latest with the Waitangi Tribunal and whether priests should disclose crimes to police after confession, among other issues, on “The Panel” on Pat Brittenden mornings. You […]
Tags: Craig Heilmann · Pat Brittenden · Radio Rhema · The Panel