With trips to the US, Christmas, New Years, the summer break, Madeleine’s work, my preaching and juggling the family and the launch of my book, it has been a while since I blogged. Since the last post was about me going to the US I figured I should start by giving a very belated update on the trip […]
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A very belated report on my trip to San Diego
April 12th, 2015 Comments Off on A very belated report on my trip to San Diego
Tags: Evangelical Philosophical Society · Evangelical Theological Society · Society of Biblical Literature
Blogging as a Supplement to Peer Review: My 2011 SBL & ASOR Paper
June 29th, 2012 6 Comments
At the 2011 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion in San Francisco I gave a paper in the Blogger and Online Publication session entitled “Blogging as a Supplement to Peer Review“. It occurred to me today that I have never published it on MandM so here it is. This […]
Tags: American Academy of Religion · Peer Review · San Francisco · Society of Biblical Literature
Back from San Francisco: A Belated Report
February 3rd, 2012 2 Comments
MandM has been quite of late, this is because Madeleine and I have been very busy. With moving house in the midst of Christmas and New Years and Madeleine working part-time in a law firm and so on, we’ve had little time to blog. We are now set up, to some extent, and so this […]
Tags: Biblioblog · David Baggett · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Jerry Walls · Paul Copan · Publication; San Francisco · Society of Biblical Literature · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong · William Lane Craig
Response to William Lane Craig’s Question 225: “The ‘Slaughter’ of the Canaanites Re-visited” Part II
August 12th, 2011 158 Comments
In my last post “Response to William Lane Craig’s Question 225: “The ‘Slaughter’ of the Canaanites Re-visited” Part I” I discussed William Lane Craig’s position on the Canaanite Conquest account (in light of the fact that Craig referred to my argument in his question of the week: “Question 225: The “Slaughter” of the Canaanites Re-visited”). I […]
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Response to William Lane Craig’s Question 225: “The ‘Slaughter’ of the Canaanites Re-visited” Part I
August 11th, 2011 6 Comments
Every week William Lane Craig answers a question on his website; this week’s question of the week is entitled “The “Slaughter” of the Canaanites Re-visited”. The questioner asked what Craig thinks of the Canaanite Conquest account. I got a mention in Craig’s reply: “The topic of God’s command to destroy the Canaanites was the subject […]
Tags: Atlanta · Canaanites · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Genocide · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Old Testament Ethics · Paul Copan · Question of the Week · Society of Biblical Literature · William Lane Craig
Society of Biblical Literature: Blogger and Online Publication
July 30th, 2011 1 Comment
The Society of Biblical Literature’s program book for their 2011 meeting in San Francisco is now online. The blogger and online publication session for which Matt and I have had a joint paper accepted shows who we are sharing the session with and provides links to brief abstracts for each talk. Blogger and Online Publication […]
Tags: Academia.edu · Alice Bach · Juhana Markus Saukkonen · Richard Price · Robert Cargill · San Francisco · Society of Biblical Literature
We’re Going to San Francisco!
May 10th, 2011 15 Comments
Last year I was invited to present at the Annual Evangelical Philosophical Society Apologetics Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This was a real surprise to me and an honour. Some of the best evangelical Christian scholars in the world presented at this conference; speakers included Alvin Plantinga, William Lane Craig, Paul Copan, Gary Habermas, Mike Licona, […]
Tags: Apologetics · EPS · Evangelical Philosophical Society · San Francisco · SBL · Society of Biblical Literature

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.




