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The MandM blog addresses Christian philosophy, theology, ethics, jurisprudence, civil liberties, politics and social commentary from a distinctly kiwi perspective, utilising a deliberate blend of academic and popular writings, with a good measure of
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A Response to The Dunedin School’s “Thinking in Tatters: Moral Relativism and So-Called ‘Counter-Examples’”
In my previous post, A Response to The Dunedin School’s “Thinking in Tatters: Moral Relativism and Hidden Objectivist Assumptions”, I addressed some criticisms levelled at a talk I gave on moral relativsm by Deane from The Dunedin School (TDS) ...
Auckland Bloggers Drinks – This Thursday
On the first Thursday of every month, Auckland bloggers gather for the B3 (Bloggers Bar Bash). What: Auckland Bloggers Drinks When: Thursday 7 January from 6.30pm Where: Galbraiths, 2 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland The B3, as it coined by regular...
A Response to The Dunedin School’s “Thinking in Tatters: Moral Relativism and Hidden Objectivist Assumptions”
A while ago I did a series of semi-popular posts on moral relativism beginning with Cultural Confusion and Ethical Relativism I. These posts grew out of a talk I gave in Tauranga in 2008. Later I presented essentially the same talk at Laidlaw College...
Name Suppression and the Balancing of Rights and Freedoms
God, via the consent of the governed, gives authority to the state to administer justice against those who violate the rights and freedoms of others. Given this, it is important that the citizens can see that justice is being done. My fellow blogger ...
Rangiora New Life College, Religion and Discrimination
On Wednesday I flew to Christchurch for an interview regarding a religious education (RE) teaching position in a Catholic School. On having the interview and receiving the subsequent rejection email, it was clear what the reason I did not get the po...
Hadouken Punch
Online Sid had some fun with my Pacific Viewpoint TV screen-shot. Apparently I am sending Paul Hutchison an hadouken punch (or chi blast as my kids tell me). Classic! Hat Tip: Online Sid ...
Goodbye Anna
Peter Cresswell posted this afternoon that blogger Anna Woolf who blogged at Annie Fox lost her battle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma today. We first met Anna at bloggers drinks back in April this year and then we began to read her blog. Over the few sho...
NIWA, Climategate and Evasive Fallacious Answers
Climategate has been all the rage on the blogosphere of late and judging by the emails we’ve received in the past few days from our international readers, New Zealand’s own climategate has gone global. The fuel providing the heat is a recent crit...
This one’s for Anna Woolf
Peter Cresswell has an update on blogger Anna Woolf’s battle with cancer which is very near the end. We met Anna on my and her birthday in April this year at bloggers drinks and have enjoyed her company and shared laughs and swapped pain meds a...
Wellington Bloggers Drinks on Friday!!
The Wellington bloggers drinks are this Friday and we’ll be there so come along! What: Wellington Bloggers Drinks When: Friday 27 November from 7:00pm Where: Backbencher Pub, 34 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, Wellington See you there! ...
Of Papers, Jobs, Weddings and TV Shows
We have had, and are in for, an interesting few weeks. Last week I finished my studies for 2009 with my Legal Ethics exam and enrolled to complete the final two papers of my LLB (bachelor of law) in 2010. This week Matt handed in his final piece of a...
The NZ Herald on Cactus Kate and Priorities in Journalism Ethics
There is an interesting story unfolding in the blogosphere. Cactus Kate published extracts of APN News and Media’s guidelines for publication on her blog in, APN Chicken Out, and inserted her own commentary and spin on them based on email corre...
Richard Dawkins on Thinking Matters
According to Richard Dawkins, New Zealand apologetics blog, Thinking Matters Talk, “makes for some interesting browsing.” The recommendation of Rob Ward’s blog post, Sarfati reviews Dawkins’ ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’, has s...
Guest Post: The Common Good – An Emergent Phenomenon
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. Th...
Wellington Bloggers Drinks
As previously mentioned, we are heading to Wellington soon. We figured, since we’ll be there, we should do a Wellington bloggers drinks: What: Wellington Bloggers Drinks When: Friday 27 November from 7:00pm Where: Backbencher Pub, 34 Moleswor...
Mentionables
Flat out busy as the end of semester approaches and deadlines and exams loom we thought we’d link to some blog posts we’ve recently found interesting rather than actually write anything ourselves: Wintery Knight has a video for which his ...
Message From Cactus
Just about to head to bed and spotted incoming traffic from Cactus Kate; headed over to check it out and spotted this message: Message received. Whinging ceased. I always stop once I get what I want… ...
ACORN, Planned Parenthood and the Power of One (Well Two Really)
When the officials don’t care or are turning a blind eye and the media are not interested, the average citizen can feel a bit powerless in the face of injustice and corruption at the state level. One often wonders what one do do? In the age of the ...
The 2009 Forum on the Family: A Review
On Friday Madeleine and I attended the Forum on the Family and the following is our long awaited (and long) review of it. The Forum kicked off with an impassioned talk from Bev Adair. Bev gave a harrowing account of her own story of childhood physica...
Pulse Check
We have not fallen off the face of the earth, just too much on. Auckland Bloggers drinks was very cool, extremely packed out and seriously a who’s who of blogging – for a list of who may or may not have been present see Ryan Sproull’...
Auckland Bloggers Drinks Feat. David Farrar – This Thursday!
[ 17 September 2009; 5:30 pm to 10:30 pm. ] This week a number of non-Auckland bloggers will be in Auckland for the Forum on the Family. So, Annie Fox and I have conspired to hold an impromptu Bloggers Bar Bash this Thursday and David Farrar has conf...
