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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Guest Post'
Guest Post: Tim Wikiriwhi Reviews The Great Waitangi Debate (Uncut)
February 10th, 2010 33 Comments
Tags: Eq · Guest Post · Mare · Tim Wikiriwhi · Treaty of Waitangi · TV One · TVNZ
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 [...]
Tags: Common Good · Guest Post · Nyokodo · Public Policy
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 [...]
Tags: Guest Post · NZ Blog Rankings · ScrubOne
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 Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons [...]
Tags: Christian History · Dan Brown · Faith and Reason · Guest Post · James Hannam · Religious History · Science and Religion
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 [...]
Tags: Beer · Guest Post · Hermeneutics · Jonny King · Theology
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 [...]
Tags: Guest Post · Voluntary Student Membership · VUWSA
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 cross-posting [...]
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Guest Post: Why doesn’t the Bible address X?
July 3rd, 2009 3 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 [...]
Tags: Guest Post · Theology
Guest Post: No Official Religion in God’s Own?
April 6th, 2010 124 Comments
David Simpkin is a Hamilton based lawyer with an interest in church-state issues. He studied law at the University of Auckland and holds a BA majoring in history and political studies. David is married to Susan and has a infant son, Caleb. He attends Whitiora Bible Church in Hamilton. David writes: As a holiday weekend that coincides with [...]
Tags: David Simpkin · Freedom of Religion · Guest Post · Human Rights Commission · Religion and Public Life · Religious History · Rights and Freedoms · State Religion