Southern Cross
North Sydney Region: Answers in a post-9/11 world

Mary Andrews College is to host an important conference for Christian women.

01/05/2006
North Sydney Region: Poverty changes one woman’s ministry

Beth Powell’s visit to East Timor confirmed her belief that caring for the poor and oppressed is not an ‘optional extra’ for Christians

01/05/2006
Parish in Focus: St James’ Turramurra

The Rev Stephen Calder has come from St Alban’s, Lindfield via Northern Ireland to lead the Bobbin Head Anglican Church (BHAC). Stephen is St James’, Turramurra’s assistant minister and BHAC is focused on team ministry.

01/05/2006
North Sydney Region: Bible goes behind barbed wire

The government allegedly limits the number of Christians allowed to see them, but asylum seekers are coming to Christ at Villawood.

01/05/2006
Standing Committee Decisions

Each month Southern Cross will report on the major decisions of the diocesan Standing Committee.

01/05/2006
Consolations of Theology: Lactantius on Anger

In the first article in a lecture series on the Consolations of Theology, Moore College lecturer RICHARD GIBSON illuminates Lactantius on anger.

11/04/2006
Sydney bolsters ties with South Africa

Peter Jensen’s visit to South Africa last month signalled Sydney’s continued support of evangelicals worldwide.

29/03/2006
Archbishop visit South Africa

In addition to his main focus at George Whitefield College, Dr Jensen said it was also encouraging to visit the Johannesburg Bible College run by Nat Schluter, the son of Dr Michael Schluter, well known to many Australians as the head of the Relationships Foundation.

29/03/2006
NT Wright urges Sydney to be ‘responsible’

One of the key players counselling the Anglican Communion to stay together, is concerned his fellow conservatives in Sydney Diocese are encouraging the impending split of the worldwide Anglican Church.

29/03/2006
Cathedral crowds welcome Queen

Archbishop Peter Jensen proclaimed the gospel to a worldwide audience last month as the Queen celebrated a historic Commonwealth service at St Andrew’s Cathedral.

29/03/2006
Standing Committee Decisions April 2006

Each month Southern Cross will report on the major decisions of the diocesan Standing Committee.

29/03/2006
Wollongong Region: Parish in Focus - St Michael’s Wollongong

St Michael’s, Wollongong is following in the footsteps of ‘big brother’ St Andrew’s and will host its first Easter convention on Good Friday, April 14.

29/03/2006
Wollongong Region: ‘Gong decodes Da Vinci

You don’t need to be Robert Langdon – the fictional lead of Dan Brown’s blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code – to discover the truth about Jesus Christ.

29/03/2006
Persecution watch

Top musician, Su Wenxing, is now under house arrest. In 2004, China National Orchestra’s performance of Handel’s Messiah conducted by Su was abruptly cancelled. Su was told he faced arrest for ‘provocative evangelistic activities’.

29/03/2006
Anglican Communion will not change view on gays

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, says the global Anglican Communion has not changed its teachings rejecting homosexuality and will not ‘reopen the discussion’ at the next Lambeth conference in 2008, the once a decade meeting of Anglican bishops.

29/03/2006
Christian convert given death

Abdul Rahman is facing the death penalty after being found guilty in Afghanistan last month of converting from Islam to Christianity.

29/03/2006
Ministry Moves April 2006

Find out who's moving where...

29/03/2006
Letters to the Editor April 2006

Read this month's letters to the editor.

28/03/2006
Moore College: Principal Writes (April 2006)

Moore College is a community of scholars, but we do not pursue scholarship for scholarship’s sake.

28/03/2006
Moore College: High flyer grounded

Anna Cheuh has swapped a career with Qantas for teaching the Bible to young women.

28/03/2006
Female Chauvinist Pigs

The hot pink cover and provocative title misled me. Before reading Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture I thought that I would share significant agreement with Levy, since I sympathise with feminism’s cause in the fight against the objectification of women.

01/03/2006
Kim’s story

Kim* went through years of broken relationships before finding joy with her Christian husband.

05/02/2006
Many nations, one church

Christ Church, Gladesville had an ambitious New Year’s resolution in 2005 – to plant a congregation every three years, beginning in 2006.

05/02/2006
Family law changes welcomed

Anglicare Sydney has welcomed the Federal Government’s sweeping changes to the family law system.

05/02/2006
Missionary comforts bus crash survivors

Australian CMS missionary Canon Jim Doust is providing pastoral care in the aftermath of last month’s tragic bus crash in Egypt that killed six Australians and injured 26 others.

05/02/2006