Ross Cobb, Music Director of St Andrew’s Cathedral, convinces JEREMY HALCROW that his belief that contemporary music is always the best option for gospel ministry is a myth. There is some evidence that traditional hymns resonate more with the unchurched.

We Christians should make common cause with Western secularism. When the Nazis invaded Soviet Union, Churchill defended his support of the communist Soviet Union saying, “If Hitler invaded Hell I would at least make a favourable reference of the Devil in the House of Commons”. Churchill recognised the greater danger. So should we.

Not in living memory has a riot seemed so media-generated. Front page headlines about Aussie Pride. Radio chatter about violent Lebanese youth and counter-talk about the Bra Boys surfers fueled an already incendiary situation.

As Lucy approaches the wardrobe in the film of C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the camera lingers on a dying fly on the window sill. I had wondered why the fly received a three second close-up, but then forgot all about it until Ivan Head, Warden of St Paul’s College at Sydney University, sent me his intriguing paper.

How can The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe help us to talk about the gospel with friends and family? GREG CLARKE, Director of New College’s apologetics centre, CASE, offers a few starters.

It should be no surprise that the Sydney Morning Herald will take an overly Sydney-centric view when analysing news events. That’s why Julia Baird’s argument in her October 20 column ‘Numbers rule as Team Sydney muscles up’, likening recent decisions of Sydney Synod to George Bush’s foreign policy should be taken with a grain of salt.

Could relationships in the Anglican Communion be worse?

What church hasn’t been adversely affected by Sunday sport and Sunday trading? But these are so entrenched, that talk of resisting the Government’s new industrial relations (IR) laws on the basis that Sunday is sacred just seems like rehashing an argument we lost years ago.

It’s not only in Australia that there is unfounded fear and misunderstanding of evangelicals – things seem worse in Canada, says the Anglican Church League, publishing an article from Michael Davenport that helpfully clears up the confusion between evangelicals and fundamentalists.

The Review Committee for key federal legislation relating to human embryos is calling for submissions from members of the public with an interest in these issues. It is important that the Christian Community make their views known to the committee so that they can be taken into account when the committee decides whether the acts should be altered in any way.

There’s nothing new about the MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) it’s a concept well over a decade old. But with computing power achieving new milestones every month, and broadband becoming increasingly common, MMORPGs have taken off in a big way these past few years. There are now many tens of thousands of players across the world questing, looting and fighting in virtual communities. How then do we play a MMORPG in the name of Jesus? I offer a simple list of strategies which I have found helpful based on personal experience.

Marriage has taken a beating over the last 30 years. Divorce, de-factos, more people marrying later or not at all. ANDREW CAMERON and TRACY GORDON argue for a return to relationships with God at the centre.

Think of a smoky pub and Christian music is not the first thing that springs to mind, but 26-year-old member of St Andrew’s, Wahroonga, Richard Beeston, is attempting to reverse the stereotype. “My primary goal is to engage non-Christians through music,” says Richard. “I aim to write, record and perform songs that have popular appeal and a strong Christian message behind them.”

I sometimes think that writing is a kind of a sickness. I don’t exactly know why I do it. It must be a sickness. It isn’t exactly easy to know why you do it. Books don’t stay in print for long and you certainly wouldn’t do it for the money. Even books by great ones are superseded fairly soon.