St Paul’s, Castle Hill is one of the largest parishes in Sydney, but even they have had to deal with closing down a church plant. However, a new outreach to young families is growing as a result, finds JOSEPH SMITH.

Sydney Anglicans are being urged to help Christians fight the brutal cleansing campaign of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe.

Ordinary Christians from Sydney’s South-West are leading the way in planting the new generation of school-based churches.

RICE, a name that has become synonymous with outreach to Sydney’s second generation Chinese, is about to undergo a face-lift as it heads towards its fourth birthday.

An opposition MP challenging the policies of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe is calling on Sydney Anglicans to help fight the abuse of human rights.

Wendy Estall is helping form one of the last lines of defence between the ‘baby boomers’ and their Godless march to the grave.

If one picture is worth a thousand words, John Williams will need a full photo album to tell the entire history of St John’s, Birchgrove.

Witchcraft has been given a very pretty face and a cute little nose wiggle in Bewitched, the new film starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell. But is placing witchcraft in the form of one of Hollywood’s most beautiful actresses just another insidious way for Hollywood to sell witchcraft to the masses?

During university semesters Blakehurst parishioner Ian Morrison may be a mild mannered architecture student. But as the sun rises on the July school holidays he is transformed into Mullet Man - heroic master of Bible stories and messy games.

St Matthew’s, Manly is the ‘church of the open door’. The policy saved John Nicholls, who was planning to end his life until he was spotted by an old friend at the door of the church who invited him in.

James Morrison is regarded as Australia’s best known jazz musician. Besides the trumpet, the multi-instrumentalist plays trombone, euphonium, flugel horn, tuba, saxophones, and piano. Morrison tells Joseph Smith that his introduction to the genre was through what he calls ‘gospel jazz’...

Legendary evangelist Billy Graham has just completed what is likely to be his last evangelistic crusade – but the echo of his voice is still being heard down under.

Howard Newby had made a commitment to God, but was too shy to go to church. He had just seen The Passion of the Christ, and his fiancé, Michelle, attended a Bible study and was challenging her husband-to-be to become a Christian.

Eleven years is a long time – too long for Elizabeth and Malcolm Richards.

Animation is great because it gives filmmakers the opportunity to explore situations that they could never hope to recreate with a conventional actor. I mean, sure, you could stick Ben Stiller in a lion suit, Chris Rock in a zebra suit and you could struggle to squeeze Ali G into the small suit of a lemur. But the result would come off looking tacky, like a cumbersome campy version of the Muppets.

A tragic pedestrian accident has built new bridges for St Andrew’s Cathedral School as the community unites to support an injured friend.

There has clearly been a lot riding on the release of The Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Carey's tenth studio album, and thanks to the input of a handful of the hottest producers in music today, Mariah has successfully updated her sound in a market where hip hop is the new pop.

Are Sydney Anglicans losing interest in their Bibles? Disturbing statistics released by the National Church Life Survey reveal a slump in the number of people picking up the greatest story ever told.

An Abbotsleigh girl has been learning the gentle art of giving a guest 'enough rope' from master interviewer Andrew Denton - but this time the ABC celebrity was in the hot seat instead of the host's chair.

A beachside Sydney parish is receiving an injection of new life that’s one part Asian and one part academic.

The world’s first translation of the complete Bible into an Aboriginal language is now complete.

A leading indigenous Sydney Anglican is calling on churches to play a key role in tomorrow's annual Sorry Day by helping to make it a National Day of Healing for all Australians.

Have you ever used the TV as a babysitter? Have you seen a recent music video clip? Or flicked through the pages of a ‘tweenie’ magazine? Media veterans Russell and Robyn Powell are tackling the tough questions all parents face in a seminar called ‘Children and the Media’.

He may have left Australia with tonsillitis and picked up ‘a gastro thing’ while in Nairobi, but the Rev Peter Sholl says he has returned home with strengthened links to the church in Africa.

Sydney Anglicans are supporting vital ministry in Eastern Europe, paying to send a Cooks River minister back to the Ukraine to build up a new generation of church leaders.