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	<title>The Briefing » Thought</title>
	
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		<title>Why be afraid of fear?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 22:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The day of the guest service has arrived: the culmination of weeks of planning, prayers, and many nervous “Hey, our church is holding a guest service this Sunday, and I was wondering…” type of conversations. To your joy and terror, a number of your friends said yes.  (more…)<br/>
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		<title>The future of complementarianism (5): caring about your path and not just your answer, and showing charity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 22:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gospel]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We conclude this series by looking at the other reason why I think egalitarians and complementarians react differently to ‘in house’ differences and the need for charity in how we address these ‘in house’ differences within complementarianism. (more…)<br/>
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		<title>The future of complementarianism (4): things people do and don’t fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 22:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This debate between complementarians that the Piper incident has helped highlight has reinforced my growing impression that there are significant differences between the egalitarian and complementarian “sides” in how they approach ‘in house’ differences. Some reflections on this is my fifth and...<br/>
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		<title>The future of complementarianism (3): tradition and clarity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The third observation is that those of us who disagree with what (at least seems to be) Piper's approach of linking what men and women should be doing to claims that men more naturally do some things well and women more naturally do other things well need to realize that if that is Piper’s view...<br/>
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		<title>The future of complementarianism (2): the search for the One True Complementarianism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The second observation is that the debate over the place of gender in public ministry and the husband/wife relationship is more complex than it can appear on the surface. As I suggested in my previous series, underneath the term 'egalitarian' there are a huge number of mutually contradictory...<br/>
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		<title>The future of complementarianism (1): feeling, nothing more than (Christianity has a masculine) feeling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In case you missed it, there was a minor ripple through the evangelical portion of the web recently. John Piper was reported to have declared that Christianity has a masculine feel in a talk he gave on J.C. Ryle’s ministry to a men’s conference on ministry. Blogs and Facebook lit up as Christians...<br/>
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		<title>The hope of the resurrection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas Markham | Rory Shiner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Resurrection]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For Christians, the Bible’s teaching on Jesus’ resurrection is often a bit like a mystery box. It’s central to our faith, but in our minds its value often depends on its mystery. In 1 Corinthians 15 Paul urges us to move beyond the surface, open the box and delight in its truths. (more…)<br/>
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		<title>New Atheism (8): The next generation—The Neo-New Atheists, part 2</title>
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		<comments>http://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/2012/03/new-atheism-the-next-generation-the-neo-new-atheists-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/?p=15769</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last post I argued that Davies, Pratchett, Whedon, and Adams handle death far more empathically and sensitively than is New Atheism’s tendency. It is similar when it comes to meaning in life. These writers do not agree with each other about the answer to the meaning of life, but they all share far...<br/>
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		<title>New Atheism (7): The next generation—The Neo-New Atheists, part 1</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBriefingThought/~3/C8UPrUPnULE/</link>
		<comments>http://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/2012/02/new-atheism-the-next-generation-the-neo-new-atheists-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’d like to conclude this series, over these last two posts, by looking at a version of atheism that I think could be a more serious challenge when and if New Atheism fades away, and to flag how I think this should inform our rhetoric towards New Atheism. (more…)<br/>
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		<title>My twit’s view of Lent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Disagreement among Christians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discipleship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Godliness]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Lent was trending on Twitter in my part of the world yesterday. Here&#8217;s a sample from the people I follow&#8230;

First the funny&#8230;

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