Tuesday 7th & Wednesday 8th June, 2011 Dr Jay Wile www.drwile.com Dr Wile is an International conference speaker and the author of the popular “Exploring Creation with…” textbooks. Venue: Palmerston North – Reformed Church, 541 Ruahine Street, Palmerston North Contact & Registrations: elliots@xnet.co.nz Phone: (06) 323 3499 Full information here (PDF).
Hello to Dr. John, Toby, Leanne, and Chris. Glad to hear you guys are all well after the earthquake. What a mess. Aerial footage shows the extent of the devastation as being vast. John commented that we now need to pray for a new vision for the city and the church’s leadership in that. In [...]
Professor John Lennox from Oxford University, author of “God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?” (see profile here) is speaking in Auckland at various events starting this Sunday. Lennox is a very knowledgeable, gracious and effective communicator and I highly recommend attending one of these events if you are in Auckland at the time. Visit M&M here for events including [...]
A kind of circularity of information here.
Wow, this is great news, and check out the Wellington session too… http://www.mandm.org.nz/2011/02/hear-oxford-universitys-john-lennox-in-new-zealand.html
The current administration may not believe in American exceptionalism, but it has been handed a golden opportunity to make America exceptional. A good first step was putting Egypt’s $1.5 billion U.S. aid package on the table, insisting that, if Hosni Mubarak expects to cash that check, “there must be reform—political, social and economic reforms that [...]
Comments moved to http://christian-apologetics.org/2011/coming-debates/ From the December 2010 Reasonable Faith newsletter: Here’s some exciting news: I just received an invitation to participate in a debate/dialogue with Sam Harris at the University of Notre Dame on April 7. Add that to the debate scheduled with physicist Lawrence Krauss at North Carolina State on March 30, and [...]
Here are the debate details: Dembski-Hitchens Debate — The Real “Universal Acid”
UPDATE: The debate has happened and apparently it went really well. The lowdown is given here: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8499 ——————————————— …and they did!!! I am currently in Mexico to participate in a conference called Ciudad de las Ideas, which is a conference modeled on the TED conference in the US. It features lots of high tech people, [...]
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Title: Can We Trust the Claims of Jesus Christ about Himself in the New Testament? Time: 2.15pm – 4.30pm, Sunday 26 September Location: Level 3, Baptist Tabernacle, 429 Queen Street, Auckland CBD. Cost: $10 for adult workers, $5 students. For more info, email drstevekumar@gmail.com. About the speaker: Dr John Warwick Montgomery is Distinguished Research Professor [...]
Check out some post-debate commentary here. Buy the debate DVD here.
“Atheists have nothing to fear! Yeah Right!” Nice one TTM. As your newspaper interview reports, some people are not very tolerant. [Whispering...] I’ll bet that the intolerant vandals and thieves are people will go to work next day and tell everyone that tolerance is a virtue and they are models of such virtue… Check out [...]
The Fixed-Point Foundation will sponsor this debate on September 7th, 2010 in Birmingham, Alabama. The debaters are Christopher Hitchens and David Berlinski. Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and Dr. David Berlinski, author of The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions. The question being debated: What are the [...]
Auckland lecture by Dr. Glenn Peoples. Hopefully it will be recorded…
Source Mosab Hassan was more shocked than anyone when a Department of Homeland Security official announced in immigration court today that government officials had changed their mind about him. Yesterday they saw him as a “threat to U.S. national security.” Today they say he’s welcome to stay in the United States and become a citizen. [...]
Christ Sanctuary (view our nice website here) are currently doing the following excellent series on an excellent subject… (and MP3s for the series are available on the website too) …so come and join us Sunday@10am and get your teeth into God’s Word! Tea and bikkies with the CS Community at about 12pm, but be in [...]
http://www.aomin.org NOTE: This debate has been postponed indefinitely
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