In today’s edition of Canvas, the free magazine that one finds inside each Saturday’s edition of The New Zealand Herald, one can find, on page 12, an article entitled “The F Word.” This article features interviews with five prominent New Zealand women on the issue of shifting perceptions of contemporary feminism. Madeleine was one of […]
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The F Word UPDATED Cactus Comments
March 27th, 2010 5 Comments
Tags: Cactus Kate · Canvas · Caroline Fergusson · Emma Joyce · Feminism · Julie Fairey · New Zealand Herald · Sandra Coney
Contra Mundum: Secular Smoke Screens and Plato’s Euthyphro
March 2nd, 2010 35 Comments
In “Religion: A Barrier to Clear Thinking,” the final article in the award winning series of lay philosophy articles published in the Christchurch Press, Canterbury based Philosopher Simon Clarke addressed the question, “what is the biggest obstacle to thinking clearly about social and political issues?” Predictably he answered “Several answers suggested themselves but time and […]
Tags: Contra Mundum · Euthyphro Dilemma · God and Morality · Investigate Magazine · Peter Geach · Plato · Simon Clarke · William Lane Craig
Contra Mundum: The Judgmental Jesus
January 29th, 2010 22 Comments
Few things are thought to be more morally pernicious than the practice of judging others. Sometimes this is given a theological spin with people citing the Sermon on the Mount “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure […]
Tags: Contra Mundum · Ethics · Hermeneutics · Investigate Magazine · Judging
Contra Mundum: Confessions of an Anti-Choice Fanatic
January 5th, 2010 76 Comments
If current media is to be believed opposition to legal abortion comes from misogynist fundamentalist fanatics who want to impose their religious mores onto others. This string of pejorative terms is amusing; however, it does not actually address the more crucial question of whether laws against feticide (the killing of a fetus) are just. I […]
Tags: Abortion · Contra Mundum · David Boonin · Feticide · Investigate Magazine · Peter Singer · Selection
New Years Eve Antics: MandM – One News Anchors
January 1st, 2010 5 Comments
Last night a friend took us behind the scenes at TVNZ to watch live broadcasts of One News and Channel 7 News. As everyone was too busy partying they threw us in to anchor at the last minute. No one noticed – I mean who watches the 6-o’clock news on New Years Eve anyway right? […]
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View Episode 2 Pacific Viewpoint TV Panel on Abortion & Parental Consent Here (Feat. Madeleine)
December 17th, 2009 17 Comments
Episode two of the television panel discussion I participated in on parental consent/notification for abortion is now available for viewing online here at Pacific Viewpoint TV. (Episode one can be viewed here). The show runs for 30 minutes; in this episode I appear as a panel member (last time I was an audience member). Panelists […]
Tags: Abortion · Bev Adair · Cushla McNabb · MandM on Video · Pacific Viewpoint · Paul Hutchison · Reverend Tavale Matai’a · Setita Millar · Sex Education · Ula Sangyum
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.
The New Zealand Herald prints “The F Word”
March 30th, 2010 Comments Off on The New Zealand Herald prints “The F Word”
The New Zealand Herald published “The F Word” in their online lifestyle section today. No need to head over to Cactus Kate’s now to read the whole thing online… [“The F Word” was an article on the shifting perceptions of contemporary feminism published in Saturday’s Canvas (NZ Herald magazine insert). At least six women were […]
Tags: Cactus Kate · Feminism · MandM in Print · New Zealand Herald