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Sermon four in a series entitled 'Answering Wrong Assumptions' delivered by Simon Manchester at…
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As Muslim groups worldwide protest the publication of Mohammed caricatures in a Denmark newspaper, Sydney Anglicans launched a quiet protest against an attempt by an Australian sportswear company to trademark the name Jesus.
You wouldn’t think the six-foot-five Sydney Kings and Australian Boomers captain was born to do anything except play basketball but Jason Smith’s first love growing up as a Melbourne boy was AFL.
Christians stand by a Sudanese family facing mounting hardships after their father was murdered on a Sydney street.
High profile Christians including the Treasurer Peter Costello, Labor’s Foreign Affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd, and Bruce Baird, former President of the Australian Parliamentary Christian Fellowship, played a role in the success of the RU486 Bill yesterday.
Read this month's letters to the editor.
Find out who's going where this month.
Anglican schools are far from sold on Intelligent Design, writes JOSEPH SMITH.
The move to establish a training college for clergy was borne out of intense pressure to find ministers for the vast territory of the new colony. PETER BOLT investigates the struggle to get Moore College off the ground.
Jesus said, ‘I will build my congregation’ (Matt 16:18). The conviction that is at the heart of our College is that that is what the ascended Lord Jesus Christ is doing. He is building his congregation – or his ‘church’.
The Dean of Anglican Youthworks College, the Rev Graham Stanton, says of all his Moore College experiences, it is the relationships he developed while there that resonated with him the most.
Find out what's on from the Moore College Graduation to the Preachers' Conference.
Shattered by its first murder, Norfolk Islanders may find new hope in a changing church, writes JOSEPH SMITH.
As Sydney welcomes church planters from interstate, two independent churches begin in NSW. JEREMY HALCROW reports.
Woodville Road Anglican Church’s new Sudanese church plant is a sign of the times according to Bishop of Georges River Region, the Rt Rev Peter Tasker.
Research finds that despite the record number of new clergy, numbers will need to triple by 2010 to meet Sydney’s ministry needs.
Censorship is a very difficult issue. It is impossible to know that we have the truth if information is being kept from us. However, the spread of lies and misinformation slows down any pursuit of truth. Furthermore unnecessarily offensive communication reduces people’s willingness to discuss issues rationally.
We Christians should make common cause with Western secularism. When the Nazis invaded Soviet Union, Churchill defended his support of the communist Soviet Union saying, “If Hitler invaded Hell I would at least make a favourable reference of the Devil in the House of Commons”. Churchill recognised the greater danger. So should we.
What the pewsitter learned... From his Mum and Dad: Go to the nearest church that teaches the Bible. The brand doesn’t matter. Am I allowed to say that in an Anglican paper? Too late.
The initial starting point of the Catholic Bishops’ statement emphasises that communication lies at the heart of Christian mission. “Christ was the ultimate communicator…Jesus exhorted those who followed him to take his message to the ends of the earth.”
JOHN REIMER, an engineer and Anglican minister, was a ‘vague’ believer in evolution before being convinced by Intelligent Design. He tells his story about the theory causing a storm in classrooms and science labs across the world.
Does the blog represent a paradigm shift in communication for Christians? And if so, how should Christians respond? For Christian readers blogs potentially provide an antidote to secular journalism as well as a strong, new pastoral tool.
Some Christians seem to have become nervous about confidence in God’s word and unwilling to speak up for the truth.
Is it unusual for grown men to have nightmares? Well, not if they have mortgages. But over a television program? It’s a hard thing for a 36-year-old to admit, but episodes of The Supernatural literally had me crying out in my sleep.
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.

Kel Richards and Dean Phillip Jensen discuss recent insights into the Sydney Diocese made by Mark Driscoll.…
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