Is Josie the dog the city’s best evangelist? Judging by the number of conversations he is helping his owner to have, he may be hard to beat.

The sale of a fire-damaged rectory to the Sydney Anglican Schools Corporation clears the way for a new school and ministry in the city's far west.

Passers-by might have been excused for thinking flower power had taken over St Andrew’s Cathedral in March.

The street names of Macquarie Fields conjure up images of paradise: tea tree, hibiscus, rosewood, peppermint, wild orange. But appearances are deceptive in the sleepy suburb nestled in bushland southwest of Sydney. Young lives have been lost, blood has been shed and Anglicans like Prue Gregory are left to heal the wounds.

The Mission is motivating Moore College graduates to start non-traditional church plants and leave Sydney for interstate and overseas missions, according to College Principal Dr John Woodhouse.

April 2005 Letters to the Editor

Anglicans in drought-stricken regional and rural NSW and the ACT are moving from being ashamed of the Church to finding confidence in Christ, writes JOSEPH SMITH.

Sydney Diocese’s ‘little pocket battleship’, Patricia Judge, will be remembered as a remarkable Christian who served tirelessly for others in the face of daunting opposition.

Evangelicals were swift but mixed in their reaction to the historic ban of the United States and Canadian churches over their pro-homosexual stance, reports GEORGE CONGER from Newry, Northern Ireland.

Jewish leaders have rejected the claim that Jews are responsible for a spate of alleged attacks on a group of evangelical Christians.

Supporters of a Queensland rector consecrated as an Anglican bishop in a splinter group not recognised by the Australian Anglican Church are remaining resolute in the face of high-level criticism.

Hawkesbury Christians will be better equipped to share their faith through the introduction of the areas’s first Anglican Bible college.

When Nowra Anglicans signed up for a two-week mission trip, they had no way of knowing they would be the first Westerners to reach a village devastated by the tsunami, writes MADELEINE COLLINS.

People might soon be donning their ‘Saturday best’ for church if trends set by St Faith’s, Narrabeen catch on.

Fresh from a university debate about the truth of the resurrection, Bishop of South Sydney Robert Forsyth will join journalists in a public forum to mark the launch of a new book about Sydney Diocese.

Archbishop Peter Jensen has been appointed to head a key Australian theological body.

But the best kept secret of Christian mission is that the Bible lists a whole range of activities which promote Christ and draw others toward him. These include prayer, godly behaviour, financial assistance of mission, and, of course, answering for our faith. All of these are explicitly connected in the Bible with advancing the gospel and winning people to Christ. Not all of these activities proclaim the gospel, but they do all promote the gospel.

The Queen may well disapprove, but how should we respond to Charles’ marriage to his long-term partner?

Your youth group is too small to go away on camp? Think again. Camps are one of the most powerful tools in youth ministry. A weekend away is equivalent to half a year of ministry… in both contact and impact.

In 2005 Stuart Robinson will uncover new ideas for outreach. This month we head south to Victoria and investigate St Jude’s, Carlton – a church ministering to people from Melbourne’s top-end to its projects.

It is a grave mistake to allow fears about abuse of the Lord’s Supper to rob us of the joy of receiving God’s word.

There are some – particularly within the US – who view the United Nations as a toothless tiger, bemoaning its constraints and corruption. Others are passionately committed to it despite its track record in Bosnia and Rwanda. UN interpreter Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is a true believer. A former resident of Matobo (a fictional nation in sub-Saharan Southern Africa) Silvia has seen firsthand the failure of violence to end violence.

Are we seeing the end of ‘reality television’? Is the tide finally turning against cheap ‘real life’ productions (like, err … Survivor) and finally running back to big budget dramas? The kind that employ real actors instead of real people? Channel Seven certainly hopes so.

Insight can be found in the strangest of places. Even, of all things, in big budget action films. In the midst of Sahara’s unashamed superficiality is murmured an uncomfortable truth. Sneeze and you’d miss it. Put plainly it is this: “This is Africa. No one cares about Africa.”

Tony Payne likes a scrap over difficult terrain, and Fatherhood is everything you’d expect from the award-winning author of Islam in our backyard. It is fiesty and forthright. It is edifying and entertaining.

Set over the course of a single day, Saturday begins in the early morning of February 15, 2003 as a sleepless neurosurgeon, Dr Henry Perowne, gazes out his bedroom window. From his secure vantage point he sees a plane whose fuselage appears to be alight.

It is a matter of justifiable concern that here in Australia the Howard government has courted the favour of churches that speak out on issues of personal morality, while attempting to silence and marginalise churches or church leaders who raise broader issues of justice and compassion.

Now that hip-hop and rap is consistently topping the charts, music promoting violent, hedonistic lifestyles is more prevalent than ever. In the rap world, life’s goal is to obtain as many girls, cars, drugs and dollars as possible.