Rumour has it that there are more lay people – pewsitters – than clergy in our church. But the evidence can be hard to find.

Misquoting scripture is way too easy

The Rev Geoffrey Bingham, former Principal of the Bible College of South Australia - a preacher who saw revival in South Australia - died earlier this week.

One of the uncomfortable things about God is the hard things he lets happen to us.

This column is in favour of madness and mad people.

If only Qantas executives knew the Christian scene in Sydney better: they might have invented their two-brand (Jetstar and Qantas) strategy a long time ago.

When Ms Pewsitter gets asked, “I see you up at church all the time doing stuff. When on earth do you do your housework?”. She answers, “I don’t”. They always think she is joking. But she is not.

In the new world of church planting, this pewsitter should have learnt by now not to be surprised by anything.

There are radical stands being made in the Anglican Communion right now.

What's the verdict of Driscollmania? Declare war on Sydney’s middle-aged ways!

John Sandeman's theory explains the biggest mystery of church life.

Why Lambeth is like a Hollywood set...and Peter Jensen is our Ronald Reagan.

Google a Sydney Anglican website, look under “staff” and the chances are that you will find a bloke called a “minister”, “senior minister” or “pastor”. Look up the regulations and you will find that clergy are called “priests” or “presbyters” and “deacons”.

As Africans return the gospel to America, the Moral Majority is on the move.

Finding the right coffee is one front-line in a spiritual battle.

Sydney’s wealthier parishes are in distress. Despite record numbers of graduates from Moore College, they can’t get ministers.

Everyone is a player in the Anglican Church Special Olympics.

Unbelievers should not have to subsidise our ministers.

It may be that the “prosperity gospel” is waning among our Pentecostal brothers and sisters but what about the unofficial Sydney Anglican prosperity doctrine...

Dominic gave a talk on how to have ultimate sex. Witness statements gathered by this column indicate that the item was NOT cringe inducing.

A “storm in a teacup” – a minor argument or fight - is sometimes useful. It can help you see people in a new light. Consider the “storm in a teacup” that followed the proposal in a recent Southern Cross that the diocese set up a College of Church Music.

"Our sermons only go for 40 to 50 minutes” said the comment on your.sydneyanglicans.net’s forum. The word ‘only’ hit me like a hammer.

On Reagenomics and the gospel.

When the prodigal child returns, what happens next?

It’s official – well at least it has been committed to newsprint – that Dean Philip Jensen is a ratbag.