Last night my mother contacted me to tell there was a cyclone warning in Port Douglas and she was doing the whole preparedness thing – checking food supplies, elevating important furniture and household documents and so on. At this time of the year in Port Douglas, where she and my stepfather live this is nothing […]
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Category 5 Cyclone Yasi About to Land in Queensland – My Parents are in Port Douglas UPDATE 2
February 2nd, 2011 2 Comments
Tags: Cyclone Yasi · Port Douglas · Queensland
Pro Life Tour: Hear Jill Stanek, Bryan Kemper, Glenn Peoples, Brendan Malone and Matthew Flannagan
January 31st, 2011 305 Comments
Student group Pro-Life New Zealand brought have popular pro-life speakers Jill Stanek and Bryan Kemper out from the US for a nationwide tour of New Zealand. Pro Life Tour 2011 31 Jan Wellington 1 Feb Palmerston North 2 – 3 Feb Christchurch 4 Feb Dunedin 5 Feb Auckland 7 Feb Hamilton Most centres will have day workshops […]
Tags: Abortion · Brendan Malone · Bryan Kemper · Ethics · Feticide · Glenn Peoples · Jill Stanek · Pro Life NZ
Maori Animism: New Zealand’s Established Religion
January 30th, 2011 293 Comments
New Zealand, along with all nations, is acutely religious. But, more than most Western countries, the dominant religion is now the Established Religion. We are using “established” in the historical sense of a religion prescribed and protected, so that all citizens must respect and honour that particular religion’s beliefs and practices. Established religion is the […]
Tags: Maori Animism · Phil Mohi · Religion in Public Life · State Religion
Transitioning to University
January 20th, 2011 1 Comment
What is university like? Is it possible to be a Christian there? What does it mean to live well as a student? If you know someone heading off to university this year, they may be asking themselves these kinds of questions. If they’re not asking these, it’s definitely to be encouraged. To help, I’m pleased […]
Progressive Enslavement: The Seductions of Scientism
January 18th, 2011 138 Comments
One of the silly characteristics of our age is the credulous and naive veneration of science. It has led to the emergence of what we call scientism–faith in science as the ultimate source of truth and wisdom. This faith is pervasive. How many social issues or ethical questions are falsely claimed to be resolved by […]
Tags: J Judd Owen · John Dewey · R J Rushdoony · Science and Religion · Scientism · Stephen Prickett
Not Surprising . . . Gog and Magog are Showing Signs of Life
January 13th, 2011 22 Comments
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Greenists believe that these are desperate times–acutely so. The future of mankind is at stake. Therefore, it is not surprising that they are calling for desperate measures. We are not now talking about the lunatic fringe of the movement. We are referring to those in the Greenist mainstream, the […]
Tags: Climate Change · David Shearman · Enviro Myths · Global Warming
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.
Atheist Posters: University Intolerance is Suddenly News?
February 3rd, 2011 32 Comments
Last night I watched a section on TV3’s Campbell Live about the treatment of a campus atheist club at the University of Lincoln entitled “Atheist uni students’ posters torn down” (follow the link to view the video). This story went into detail about how the clubs posters have been regularly ripped down and defaced. The […]
Tags: Atheist Club · Campbell Live · Natasha Utting · University of Lincoln