Yay! Tax cuts come into force today! It’s only a small amount but when your budget requires every cent to count it is welcome relief to be able to keep a little more of what we earn. Now the government just need to keep on going, increase the point the top tax tiers kick in […]
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Belief without Proof – Tonight!
March 31st, 2009 Comments Off on Belief without Proof – Tonight!
Just a reminder that Matt is speaking on Belief without Proof tonight in Auckland. more…
Tags: Events · Thinking Matters
Daniel Hannan v Gordon Brown the "Brezhnev era Apparatchik" UPDATED
March 30th, 2009 4 Comments
This is a must view; if only New Zealand politicians could debate and insult each other with this level of panache (and reason this well as well) then people other than David Farrar might tune in to parliament TV (ok, I watch it too). Daniel Hannan is a writer and journalist and has been Conservative […]
Tags: Humour · International Politics
Blue is the New Green: National’s Bag Tax UPDATE
March 30th, 2009 5 Comments
Just like a bad sitcom National has its own token greenie, MP Nick Smith. Presumably because we are in the wake of Earth Hour, he’s announced a new token green policy proposal – bag tax. I say token, because we all know where the money will go, into the pockets of the supermarkets; it doesn’t […]
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Top 10 NZ Christian Blogs – February 09
March 30th, 2009 2 Comments
The MandM Top 10 New Zealand Christian Blogs for February 09, in the category of public discourse, are ranked by identifying Christian blogs then comparing Half Done’s February 09 stats with Tumeke’s February 09 stats and averaging them to obtain their overall February 09 ranking. Rank. [previous top 10 rank] Blog MandM (Half Done Tumeke) […]
Coming Events This Week
March 29th, 2009 2 Comments
Two things to make sure you put into your calendar for this week: This Tuesday come to the Thinking Matters Auckland seminar: What: Dr Matthew Flannagan speaking on Belief without ProofWhen: Tuesday 31th March – 7:00pmWhere: Lecture Room 2, Laidlaw College, 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson, West AucklandFormat: Talk followed by questions, answers and discussion.Cost: […]
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Christian Blog Rankings Report for Feb 09 – Tumeke
March 29th, 2009 Comments Off on Christian Blog Rankings Report for Feb 09 – Tumeke
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on Tumeke’s NZ blog stats for February; these stats are used in the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for February 09: The Briefing Room 25 NZ Conservative 30 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 31 Keeping Stock 35 MandM 39 […]
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.
