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Guest Post: Tim Wikiriwhi Reviews The Great Waitangi Debate (Uncut)

February 10th, 2010 32 Comments

On Waitangi Day, Saturday 6 Feb, TV One aired “The Great Waitangi Debate” on their Marae Program in which Matt and I were audience members. Panelist Tim Wikiriwhi (who won the MandM award for being the most inflammatory speaker of the day) has submitted his review as a guest post. Other blogs have published bits [...]

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Guest Post: The Common Good – An Emergent Phenomenon

November 12th, 2009 13 Comments

This guest post comes from Nyokodo of And All These Things…. Catholic social teaching stresses that civil government should seek the common good. This post contains some critical commentary as to how to understand and apply the common good.

The documents of the Church and the writings of most socially minded scholars are replete with exhortations [...]

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Guest Sunday Study: Moral Perspectives on Lying

October 25th, 2009 2 Comments

Bethyada explores the morality of lying. (This guest post is part of open mic week(s))
There are a range of Christian theories on the moral acceptability of lying.
The issues around lying seem difficult to fully categorise in English. The problem is a lack of simple words to express subtle differences in meaning. To [...]

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Guest Post: The Rise and Fall of the New Zealand Christian Blogosphere

October 24th, 2009 7 Comments

ScrubOne has gone back through the  New Zealand blog rankings over the past year and documented the rise and fall of the Christan blogs to see if the launch of the MandM Top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings has had observable impact. (This guest post is part of open mic week(s))
A lot of people have [...]

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Guest Post: Dan Brown’s History of Science

October 23rd, 2009 135 Comments

This guest post was submitted by Dr James Hannam. Dr Hannam is a UK based historian with degrees in physics and history from the Universities of Oxford and London and a PhD in the history of science from the University of Cambridge. He blogs at Quodlibeta.

The film adaptation of [...]

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Guest Post: Having a Beer… for the Glory of God!

October 18th, 2009 11 Comments

As it is still open mic (blog?!) week(s) here are MandM; here is another guest post from Jonny King who, if you have not visited his blog before, you’ll find has a rather distinctive style; he threatened to burn effigies of our blog if we didn’t publish him LOL!

Having a Beer… for the Glory [...]

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Guest Post: VUWSA’s VSM Violations

October 16th, 2009 5 Comments

When ScrubOne sent us this offering as a guest post we couldn’t resist. This sort of thing has been happening for years and we saw it a lot back at Waikato University but that was pre-You Tube…gotta love the internet.

DPF links to some videos of a student meeting held at the University of Wellington [...]

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Snowed

October 15th, 2009 8 Comments

Matt and I are really snowed this week (as alluded to recently). If anyone wishes to submit a guest post please do. If we like it enough to use it we’ll link to your blog so you’ll get some traffic, a link… the satisfaction of being a good samaritan… We have no issue with  [...]

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Guest Post: Why doesn’t the Bible address X?

July 3rd, 2009 2 Comments

The following is authored by Bethyada of True Paradigm, it is particularly apt given recent comments left on this blog. Bethyada writes:
A not infrequent complaint raised by theism sceptics is that the Bible does not address many issues the sceptics think it should address; if indeed the Bible is a divine book and not merely [...]

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Guest Post: Understanding The Needs of the Hour

May 21st, 2009 5 Comments

The following is authored by John Tertullian of Contra Celsum; a blog worth visiting. JT writes:
The Kingdom of God is gradualist in nature. By this we mean that it comes bit by bit. Whilst in principle and in essence it is utterly revolutionary, in practice and human service it is not. The [...]

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