This message was apparently received by Auckland Salvation Army. It has been published in the Western Leader and Rodney Times: “A friend just got a text message from her brother asking her to shower him and his parish in prayer. “He is part of a mission and ISIS has taken over the town they are […]
Entries Tagged as 'Social Commentary'
The New Zealand Herald and Memory Loss
October 16th, 2014 5 Comments
Tags: Media · New Zealand Herald
Ad Homonym: MandM are not suing the National Party
September 17th, 2014 Comments Off on Ad Homonym: MandM are not suing the National Party
For the record MandM are not suing the New Zealand National Party over their election advertisement. Rumours to the contrary we hereby reject as an ad homonym.
Tags: Eminem · Humour · National Party
Open Letter to Maurice Williamson
May 2nd, 2014 3 Comments
Dear Maurice Williamson, I hear you are having some troubles in the media at the moment. Apparently there are moral questions swirling around you about honest disclosure, potential abuse of power, unduly influencing the police in favour of a person who donated money to you, and so on. Don’t let judgmental people like Prime Minister John Key […]
Tags: Big Gay Rainbow · Maurice Williamson
Dialogue on Unbelievable? Now Online
February 10th, 2014 Comments Off on Dialogue on Unbelievable? Now Online
I recently participated in a dialogue on the UK radio show Unbelievable?, which is hosted by Justin Brierley. The dialogue was with Ryan Bell, a former Seventh Day Adventist pastor who made headlines recently when he announced that he is trying atheism for a year . The show aired in the UK on Saturday and is now online […]
Tags: Debates · Justin Brierley · Podcast · Ryan Bell · Unbelievable?
Cultural Priorities?
November 14th, 2013 1 Comment
The New Zealand herald reports that New Zealand teenagers Ella Yelich-O’Connor (aka Lorde) and Lydia Ko have made the top two spots in Time Magazine’s Most Influential Teenagers of 2013 list. The New Zealand media have been reporting this story over and over, celebrating the wonderful achievements of our very own Lorde and Ko. I am sorry to break it […]
Tags: Kardashians · Lorde · Time Magazine
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.
An Interesting Comparison
February 4th, 2016 5 Comments
This from Occupy Democrats: This from the Unites States Founding Fathers: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Christian History · Declaration of Independence