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	<title>Anglican Church League, Sydney, Australia &#187; Opinion</title>
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		<title>Same-Sex Marriage &#8216;makes a lot of sense&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 20:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Same-sex marriage makes sense if you assume that the individual is the center of the universe, that God—if he exists—is there to make us happy, and that our choices are not grounded in a nature created by God but in arbitrary self-construction…” – Michael Horton’s piece at The White Horse Inn is well worth reading. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="White Horse Inn" href="http://www.whitehorseinn.org/blog/2012/05/11/same-sex-marriage-makes-a-lot-of-sense/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" title="Michael Horton" src="http://acl.asn.au/wp/uploads/michael-horton.jpg" alt="" width="122" height="140" /></a>“Same-sex marriage makes sense if you assume that the individual is the center of the universe, that God—if he exists—is there to make us happy, and that our choices are not grounded in a nature created by God but in arbitrary self-construction…”</p>
<p>– <a title="White Horse Inn" href="http://www.whitehorseinn.org/blog/2012/05/11/same-sex-marriage-makes-a-lot-of-sense/" target="_blank">Michael Horton’s piece at <em>The White Horse Inn</em></a> is well worth reading. (h/t <a title="Tim Challies" href="http://www.challies.com/" target="_blank">Tim Challies</a>.)</p>

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		<title>What I say is who I am!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“When a lot of our time is spent within the Christian community, or when we talk about Christian things with fellow-believers rather than non-believers, we easily get used to what we sound like and it just sounds normal. To us, the words we say mean what we know they mean. But for others, the words [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Moore Theological College, Sydney" href="http://moore.edu.au/what-i-say-is-who-i-am/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-16868" title="Greg Anderson" src="http://acl.asn.au/wp/uploads/greg-anderson-3.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="140" /></a>“When a lot of our time is spent within the Christian community, or when we talk about Christian things with fellow-believers rather than non-believers, we easily get used to what we sound like and it just sounds normal. To us, the words we say mean what we know they mean. But for others, the words we use may be giving a very different signal…”</p>
<p>– Greg Anderson, Head of the Missions Department at Moore College, <a title="Moore Theological College, Sydney" href="http://moore.edu.au/what-i-say-is-who-i-am/" target="_blank">appeals to Christians to think about how we communicate</a>.</p>

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		<title>The Working Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“If you want to divide a church, cause a rift in a family, ruin a dinner party, and bring hatred upon yourself – raise the issue of working mothers. Few subjects create more heat and antagonism than this one. There are not many more sacred cows, nor more strident voices bullying opposition into silence, than [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Phillip Jensen’s website" href="http://phillipjensen.com/articles/the-working-mother/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" title="Phillip Jensen" src="http://acl.asn.au/wp/uploads/phillip-jensen-10.jpg" alt="" width="115" height="140" /></a>“If you want to divide a church, cause a rift in a family, ruin a dinner party, and bring hatred upon yourself – raise the issue of working mothers. Few subjects create more heat and antagonism than this one. There are not many more sacred cows, nor more strident voices bullying opposition into silence, than this topic.</p>
<p>So most people keep their wisdom to themselves. And woe-betide any man who cares to venture an opinion. He is not a mother, does not understand, has a vested interest in having somebody to stay at home and serve his needs and never adequately shares the housework, so has no right to speak. Thus, with nervous fingers I approach the keyboard, remembering that there is not much difference between a brave man and a fool…”</p>
<p>– Dean of Sydney Phillip Jensen <a title="Phillip Jensen’s website" href="http://phillipjensen.com/articles/the-working-mother/" target="_blank">approaches a hot topic in his weekly column</a>.</p>

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		<title>Evolution’s End? President Obama calls for Same-Sex Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 08:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Is President Obama’s “evolution” on same sex marriage finally complete? His call for the legalization of same-sex marriage yesterday is an historic and tragic milestone. An incumbent President of the United States has now called for a transformation of civilization’s central institution. And yet, no observer of this president could be surprised. The arrival of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Albert Mohler's blog" href="http://www.albertmohler.com/2012/05/10/evolutions-end-president-obama-calls-for-same-sex-marriage/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" title="Al Mohler" src="http://acl.asn.au/wp/uploads/albert-mohler-2010-1.jpg" alt="" width="136" height="140" /></a>“Is President Obama’s “evolution” on same sex marriage finally complete? His call for the legalization of same-sex marriage yesterday is an historic and tragic milestone. An incumbent President of the United States has now called for a transformation of civilization’s central institution. And yet, no observer of this president could be surprised. The arrival of this announcement was only a matter of time…”</p>
<p>– <a title="Albert Mohler's blog" href="http://www.albertmohler.com/2012/05/10/evolutions-end-president-obama-calls-for-same-sex-marriage/" target="_blank">Dr Albert Mohler</a>, President of <a title="The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary" href="http://www.sbts.edu/" target="_blank">the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary</a>, looks at the unsurprising announcement from the American President.</p>
<p>Related: <a title="New York Times" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/us/politics/obama-says-same-sex-marriage-should-be-legal.html?_r=1&amp;hp" target="_blank">New York Times story</a>.</p>

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		<title>Getting the name right: revisionism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 06:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“By and large you don’t get too many Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on doors on the campus of a conservative evangelical theological college like ours. When they do, the odds are that the first question is, ‘What do you think is wrong with the world?’ It’s a searching question because it makes you try and boil [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Oak Hill College, London" href="http://oakhill2.ablette.net/blog/entry/getting_the_name_right_revisionism/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" title="Mike Ovey" src="http://acl.asn.au/wp/uploads/mike-ovey-4.jpg" alt="" width="105" height="140" /></a>“By and large you don’t get too many Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on doors on the campus of a conservative evangelical theological college like ours. When they do, the odds are that the first question is, ‘What do you think is wrong with the world?’</p>
<p>It’s a searching question because it makes you try and boil down all your misgivings into as small a phrase as possible, preferably even a single word. It makes you focus. The short-hand answer is ‘sin’, and put less technically perhaps something like, ‘We have all loved ourselves at the expense of our love of God and of our neighbours.’</p>
<p>In a similar vein, Anglicans at the moment have to answer the question, ‘What do you think is wrong with the Anglican church worldwide?’ Because there’s a pretty widespread agreement something is. And while it is right to answer that question in terms of sin and a disordered love of self, it is also helpful to try and be a bit more specific…”</p>
<p>– <a title="Oak Hill College, London" href="http://oakhill2.ablette.net/blog/entry/getting_the_name_right_revisionism/" target="_blank">Dr Mike Ovey at Oak Hill College in London</a> reflects on last week’s address by Archbishop Eliud Wabukala at the FCA Leaders Conference.</p>

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		<title>You Have to Get Religion to Get Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Charles (Chuck) Colson got religion, but those people who haven’t got it, do not get it. They keep missing the point of his imprisonment as they retell his story. Sometimes they even get the chronology wrong – and in this case the chronology is important. Chuck wasn’t converted in gaol, but beforehand. In fact he [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Phillip Jensen’s website" href="http://phillipjensen.com/articles/you-have-to-get-religion-to-get-religion/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" title="Phillip Jensen, Dean of Sydney" src="http://acl.asn.au/wp/uploads/phillip-jensen-5.jpg" alt="" width="116" height="140" /></a>“Charles (Chuck) Colson got religion, but those people who haven’t got it, do not get it. They keep missing the point of his imprisonment as they retell his story. Sometimes they even get the chronology wrong – and in this case the chronology is important.</p>
<p>Chuck wasn’t converted in gaol, but beforehand. In fact he was gaoled because he was converted. Not that he was a martyr; persecuted and imprisoned for his faith. He went to gaol as a criminal because he had ‘got religion’. If he had not got religion he most likely would never have gone to gaol. …”</p>
<p>– <a title="Phillip Jensen’s website" href="http://phillipjensen.com/articles/you-have-to-get-religion-to-get-religion/" target="_blank">Phillip Jensen’s weekly column</a> tells the real story behind Chuck Colson’s imprisonment.</p>

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		<title>Gambling is not a numbers game</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I applaud Mr. Wilkie for his efforts in championing poker machine reform amidst broken promises from the Federal Government. However, the fact that this issue is only on the agenda because Mr. Wilkie holds a controlling vote demonstrates a sad state of affairs. The Government should repent of its opportunism…” – The Bishop of Tasmania [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="John Harrower" href="http://imaginarydiocese.org/bishopjohn/2012/04/27/gambling-is-not-a-numbers-game/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" title="Bishop of Tasmania John Harrower" src="http://acl.asn.au/wp/uploads/john-harrower-011.jpg" alt="" width="117" height="140" /></a>“I applaud Mr. Wilkie for his efforts in championing poker machine reform amidst broken promises from the Federal Government.</p>
<p>However, the fact that this issue is only on the agenda because Mr. Wilkie holds a controlling vote demonstrates a sad state of affairs. The Government should repent of its opportunism…”</p>
<p>– The Bishop of Tasmania <a title="Imaginary Diocese" href="http://imaginarydiocese.org/bishopjohn/2012/04/27/gambling-is-not-a-numbers-game/" target="_blank">calls for a radical change in politics</a>.</p>

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		<title>Long to reign over us</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It is characteristic of the Queen that, on the eve of her jubilee year, she should address the Commonwealth not by drawing attention to herself, but by preaching the Gospel in her annual Christmas broadcast. She has done this before, most notably at the turn of the millennium, but never as clearly as last year, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" title="Gerald Bray" src="http://acl.asn.au/wp/uploads/gerald-bray.jpg" alt="" width="134" height="140" />“It is characteristic of the Queen that, on the eve of her jubilee year, she should address the Commonwealth not by drawing attention to herself, but by preaching the Gospel in her annual Christmas broadcast. She has done this before, most notably at the turn of the millennium, but never as clearly as last year, when she spoke quite directly about human sin, the forgiving power of Christ and the need for each of us to be born again.”</p>
<p>– In his Editorial for <em>Churchman</em> Spring 2012, Gerald Bray <a title="PDF file - direct link" href="http://www.churchsociety.org/churchman/documents/Cman_126_1_Editorial.pdf" target="_blank">writes about Queen Elizabeth II and her legacy</a>. (PDF.)</p>

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		<title>Anzac Day: Damien Parer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Last time I was in Canberra I visited the National Film and Sound Archives. While there one particular exhibit caught my attention. It featured the first Australian Academy Award winning film &#8230; ‘Kakoda Frontline’. The film images are now iconic. The ‘diggers’ fighting their way across the steep, mountainous terrain, hampered by dense jungle, continuous [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Rod Oldfield's blog" href="http://rodoldfield.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/anzac-day-damion-parer.html" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-16623" title="Rod Oldfield" src="http://acl.asn.au/wp/uploads/rod-oldfield.jpg" alt="" width="135" height="140" /></a>“Last time I was in Canberra I visited the National Film and Sound Archives. While there one particular exhibit caught my attention. It featured the first Australian Academy Award winning film &#8230; ‘Kakoda Frontline’.</p>
<p>The film images are now iconic. The ‘diggers’ fighting their way across the steep, mountainous terrain, hampered by dense jungle, continuous rain storms, river crossings but ever by their sides helping; sometimes carrying the wounded are the New Guinea natives, the legendary ‘fuzzy wuzzy angels’. It was little wonder the film won an Academy Award…”</p>
<p>– BCA Missioner <a title="Bush Church Aid Society" href="http://bushchurchaid.com.au/staff/rev-captain-rod-and-christene-oldfield/" target="_blank">Rod Oldfield </a>on King Island <a title="Rod Oldfield's blog" href="http://rodoldfield.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/anzac-day-damion-parer.html" target="_blank">shares an ANZAC Day reflection</a>.<br />
(h/t <a title="Imaginary Diocese" href="http://imaginarydiocese.org/bishopjohn/2012/04/23/anzac-reflection-from-king-island/" target="_blank">Bishop John Harrower</a>.)</p>

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		<title>QandA &#8212; or Question Un-answered?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Were you disappointed by the Dawkins/Pell debate? You’re not alone – all Christians I know, were unhappy. Not because our ‘gladiator’ lost the contest to the atheist ‘gladiator’, but because he seemed to lose the plot and mangle the gospel…” – Dean of Sydney Phillip Jensen comments on the recent episode of ABC TV’s Q&#38;A. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Phillip Jensen’s website" href="http://phillipjensen.com/articles/qanda-or-question-un-answered/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" title="Phillip Jensen" src="http://acl.asn.au/wp/uploads/phillip-jensen-10.jpg" alt="" width="115" height="140" /></a>“Were you disappointed by the Dawkins/Pell debate? You’re not alone – all Christians I know, were unhappy. Not because our ‘gladiator’ lost the contest to the atheist ‘gladiator’, but because he seemed to lose the plot and mangle the gospel…”</p>
<p>– <a title="Phillip Jensen’s website" href="http://phillipjensen.com/articles/qanda-or-question-un-answered/" target="_blank">Dean of Sydney Phillip Jensen comments</a> on the <a title="ABC TV" href="http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3469101.htm" target="_blank">recent episode of ABC TV’s Q&amp;A</a>.</p>

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