Sydney churches have seen good attendance this Christmas season with St Andrew's Cathedral using a seating reservation system for Christmas Eve carols for the first time.

Archbishop Dr Peter Jensen has delivered his Christmas message, stressing that commitment, compassion and 'generous care' will be needed in the year ahead.

Archbishop Dr Peter Jensen has accepted an offer to be patron of Gawura, the campus of St Andrew's Cathedral School for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

Distinguished Anglican Theologian JI Packer and the Rev David Short have been appointed honorary clerical canons of Sydney's St Andrew's Cathedral.

The Standing Committee of the Diocese of Sydney has welcomed the creation of the Province of the Anglican Church of North America.

The Bishop of South Sydney Robert Forsyth is in a satisfactory condition in hospital on Norfolk Island after suffering a heart attack.

Connect09 regional briefings are being greeted by the good news that parish demand for Connect09's Essential Jesus gospel is soaring.

Good Communicators are good listeners. Less is more. Be bold – take a risk for the Gospel. These were just some of the many pearls of advice given at the inaugural Create conference.

Connect09 executive director Andrew Nixon has urged churches to spend 'a significant amount of time' on Sunday praying for their communities.

Sydney’s Synod has voted overwhelmingly to endorse GAFCON’s Jerusalem Declaration. Archbishop Peter Jensen said the declaration would “help bring order out of chaos”.

The Synod of the Diocese of Sydney has overwhelmingly endorsed the Jerusalem Declaration, the key document from GAFCON.

This week Sydneyanglicans.net investigates several parishes on the leading edge of the Mission and comes up with three ideas to kick-start your planning for next year’s evangelistic campaign.

The GAFCON Primates council has issued a statement of 'dismay' at the Episcopal Church action against the Bishop of Pittsburgh, Bob Duncan.

Archbishop Peter Jensen has told a National Police Remembrance service that "a nation which forgets, is a nation in decay".

The standing committee of the Diocese of Sydney has expressed its strong support for Bishop Robert Duncan of the American diocese of Pittsburgh, saying it is 'deeply distressed' that he has been deposed by the Episcopal Church.

One of the most significant conservative leaders in the United States, Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, has been deposed from the ordained ministry by the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church.

When the recent council elections were held, it just seemed natural for Bobbin Head's coffee connoisseurs to share their brew with bleary-eyed voters.

As the countdown begins to the Jesus All About Life media campaign in September 2009, Canon Jim Ramsay says the TV ads will be a great boost for Connect09.

Church buildings are the latest target in a fresh wave of persecution facing Christian churches in Indonesia.

He's been in Australia only three weeks but last night, before 10,000 people Mark Driscoll laid out the seven 'plastic' views of Jesus he says are held by Australians.

The Lambeth conference convened amid a crescendo of criticism of the North American churches' renegade actions in blessing same-sex unions and consecrating an actively homosexual bishop. Most observers would have to concede that the absence of so many bishops made everyone aware of just what is at stake. The unfortunate truth of the Lambeth conference is that the only certain outcome has been £1.2 million debt. As for the rest, opinions vary widely.

Pastor Mark Driscoll has just had three weeks holiday with his family in Sydney, and he's ready to spend another two weeks speaking to a city of extremes.

Readers of sydneyanglicans.net have a special opportunity to ask questions of American preacher Mark Driscoll in the next 24 hours.

Australian Christians have been called on to intervene – in prayer – for Aboriginal churches, as a seasoned missionary claims they are in crisis.

The Lambeth Conference has been told the Anglican church is being ridiculed as "the gay church".