The Briefing #345—June, 2007

Couldn't Help Noticing

• Be careful whom you insult
• I love PowerPoint
• Rules for the virtual playground
• Post-Easter
• Not all at sea

• WordWatch: Evolution—Kel Richards brings some clarity to the use of this hotly debated word.

Bookshelf

• Review: Numbers: Homeward Bound—Phil Colgan discovers an Old Testament commentary of quality.

Resource Talk

• More ways to live—Tony Payne reflects on a milestone of the Two ways to live gospel presentation.

Atheism

• The Dawkins challenge—Richard Dawkins hopes that religoius people who read The God Delusion will be cured of their delusion by the time they have finished. Jago Wynne took the challenge, and reports on what he found.
• Entering a fool's paradise: How to respond to atheists—Richard Dawkins has made atheism more popular but, as Andrew Katay points out, this is not such a bad thing.
• A spotter's guide to atheists—Richard Dawkins may be wanting to start a church for atheists, but what kind of atheists would be sitting in its pews? Greg Clarke surveys the varieties.

Pastor's Brief

• Show yourself a man—Former Army chaplain Tim Booker reports some of his reflections on ministering to men from the front line.

Bible Brief

• John 1-6—20 daily Bible readings by Tony Payne.

Epilogue

• We atheists—Tony Payne suggests that Christians are atheists too.

Web extras

In this month's web extras,

• Greg Clarke daydreams about what it would be like if Richard Dawkins became a Christian; and
• Andrew Moody responds to Kevin Giles.

We also bring online Briefing reviews of two recent books on atheism:

• Alister McGrath's The Twilight of Atheism (by Rory Shiner); and
• Callum Brown's The Death of Christian Britain (by Kirsten Birkett).