A Response to Nathan Smith
The majority of Christians in history have seen war as legitimate, if regrettable.
Tani Newton
What Will It Take to End War?
We take this as the price of the relative peace and prosperity we have come to expect. And yet it somehow doesn’t keep delivering peace and prosperity. Instead, we now have endless war and the privations and hardships that war necessarily entails.
Calling for a Return to Callings
The idea of callings is a very fine one and I would like to see a return to thinking and talking about it, rather than trying to calculate what will gain us the most money or the most prestige or the most position in society and then making a plan to get there.
More on Prize Givings and Education
A prize for learning to be a conformist, agreeing with things that you know are not true… Really?
Do Come to the Prizegiving
Is it fair, or even reasonable, to think that yours are more ‘clever’? All you’re really boasting about is the social status that you brought into the situation with you.
Gisborne’s Street Protesters Celebrated a Win
According to the Gisborne Herald, the council’s chief executive mused that “another option to slow traffic could be to reduce the speed limit”. After spending a million dollars, they finally think of that.
Legalised Abortion in NZ (Part 6)
Every life that is saved makes it worthwhile. And it seems that the ‘safe areas’ are not changing that.
The Business of Science, Part Two
So the business of science is to find out knowledge. But scientific fact can never be just fact, brute fact. It isn’t fact unless it’s true and it isn’t true unless it is both correctly observed and truthfully reported.
What Is the Business of Science?
Unproven hypotheses that are put forward as ‘truth’ or ‘scientific fact’, simply because powerful forces have decided to put them in that position, really have no more scientific validity than matauranga Māori.
Can the State Schools Be Secular?
If you say schools shouldn’t ‘indoctrinate’ children or ‘force a religious view’ on them, allow me to point out to you that the schools have been indoctrinating children with secular humanism and forcing its religious views on them for decades. Now the shoe is on the other foot.
Don’t Let Them Tell You That, Either
We used to have outstanding early childhood education in this country. It was provided by mothers without qualifications, in homes without certification and at a cost to the taxpayer of precisely zip.
Who Is to Blame for This?
There are laws that are doing real harm and I would like to see that acknowledged in the public debate.
The Occupation of This Historic Land Begins
The occupation began on Monday, following a protest march through the streets, and is set to continue for ‘as long as it takes’.