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	<title>The Briefing » Review</title>
	
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		<title>Worth the wait</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Should I decline to co-lead a Bible study if there are men in the group? Should I cover my head (and if so, would an old towel do)? Should I keep silent during the public question time in church at the end of the Bible talk? To whom am I to submit, since I don’t have a husband—to all men? In...<br/>
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		<title>The Next Story: Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 22:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It’s hard to think of anyone better equipped than Tim Challies to write a book about the impact of technology on the Christian life. He’s a husband, father, and pastor; a web designer by trade; and a popular evangelical blogger (at challies.com). Living a life interrupted by the ‘beep’, in the glow...<br/>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, New Bible Dictionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 22:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bible study aids]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This month marks the 50th anniversary of The New Bible Dictionary [Amazon], first published by IVP back in May 1962. Initially edited by James D. Douglas, it featured contributions from a host of evangelical scholars, including Australians like Leon Morris, Donald Robinson, Edwin Judge, Alan Cole,...<br/>
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		<title>An updated attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Muriel Porter has been attacking Sydney Anglicans for years. In synods, committees, and in print, she has vociferously opposed the position of the Diocese of Sydney on a whole range of issues. Never very far from the surface, though, is her anger at the diocese’s attitude towards female priests and...<br/>
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		<title>What is an evangelical?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[“Labels are for boxes and dieters” a friend told me after I asked him his theological
persuasion. Many of my new Christian friends tell me basically the same thing. Most of them are under the age of forty, and none of them want to be labelled. They don’t want to identify themselves as Baptist or...<br/>
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		<title>Two Ways to Live app</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Evangelism]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Available now on the App Store ($0.99/£0.69/€0,79)

Last year I attended the Oxygen conference in Sydney for ministry workers. During one of John Piper’s talks, he got to a point where he realized he had been talking about ‘the gospel’ as foundational to the Christian life without ever telling us...<br/>
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		<title>No ordinary plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Things don’t always go to plan. You try to do your Christmas shopping in October, but somehow you’re still looking for gifts on the 23rd of December. You mean to ask that couple from church around for dinner, but the weeks go by and the invitation slips your mind every Sunday. This is the year...<br/>
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		<title>Exploding Fenella Souter’s Myths of Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last Saturday, the &#8216;Good Weekend&#8217; magazine published by the Sydney Morning Herald (and the Melbourne Age?), ran an article by Fenella Souter entitled &#8220;Truth, Lies and Santa Claus: Exploding the Myths of Christmas&#8221; (not available online).  (more…)<br/>
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		<title>Gunning for God</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Unless you’ve been hiding in a cocoon for the past ten years, you can’t have failed to notice the New Atheists and their public challenge to religion and Christianity in particular. Men like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris (to name perhaps the three most famous examples) have...<br/>
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		<title>Am I really a Christian?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Am I Really a Christian?

Mike McKinley

Crossway, Wheaton, 2011. 160 pp.

From the title of this book you may be expecting something for those struggling with assurance in the Christian faith.1 That is not the book Mike McKinley has written, rather:

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