Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on Tumeke’s NZ blog stats for May; these stats are used in the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for May 09: NZ Conservative 22 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 31 Being Frank 33 MandM 35 Keeping Stock 36 Say […]
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Mount Maunganui Adventures
July 9th, 2009 1 Comment
Yesterday I took my youngest two kids for a walk around The Mount (as Mt Maunganui is referred to by locals) as we are staying about a 2 minute walk from it at the moment. As we left I told them that when I was younger and I had done this walk with my parents […]
Tags: Holiday
BOP Bloggers Drinks – Tonight!
July 8th, 2009 Comments Off on BOP Bloggers Drinks – Tonight!
Ozy Mandias, Matt and I will be meeting up at Latitude 37, in Mount Maunganui tonight at 7.30pm. Any other Bay of Plenty bloggers or readers are most welcome.
Tags: Announcements · Events
Christian Blog Ranking Report for June 09 – HalfDone
July 2nd, 2009 Comments Off on Christian Blog Ranking Report for June 09 – HalfDone
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on HalfDone’s NZ blog stats for June; these stats make up part of the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for June 09: MandM 5 NZ Conservative 7 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 15 MacDoctor Moments 21 The Humanitarian Chronicle […]
John Loftus on Madeleine Flannagan and Women and Other Red Herrings
July 1st, 2009 7 Comments
A few days ago I posted, Sunday Study: Slavery, John Locke and the Bible; in this post I defended an argument proposed by John Locke that the Bible does not support slavery. In that article I quoted from John Loftus’ book “Why I Became an Atheist” as an example of what is typically meant by […]
Tags: Atheism · Christian History · Ethics · John Loftus · Religious History · Theology
Bloggers Drinks this Thursday
June 29th, 2009 Comments Off on Bloggers Drinks this Thursday
On the first Thursday of every month, Auckland bloggers gather for the Bloggers Bar Bash: What: A social gathering of bloggers and bloupies (those who read, comment on and hang out with bloggers)When: 2 July from 6.30pmWhere: Galbraiths, 2 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland Open to any blogger who happens to be in Auckland. […]
Tags: Events
Sunday Study: Slavery, John Locke and the Bible
June 28th, 2009 100 Comments
It is often affirmed, as an incontestable and obvious truth, that the Bible supports slavery. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong cites Leviticus 25:44 as evidence of this charge in “Why Traditional Theism is not an Adequate Foundation for Morality.”[1] Although Armstrong is not the alone in making this claim, I think the charge is mistaken; the Bible does […]
Tags: John Locke · John Loftus · Old Testament Ethics · Selection · Slavery · Sunday Study · Theology · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
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.
