As the 2007 Federal election looms, a fund manager for one of Australia's top banks explores the key economic issues in play. He insists that Christians must see their vote as a powerful tool for change.

A children’s worker is using the world game serve a local school community.

Some holy rollers at Seaforth have developed a unique way to reach out to youth.

A US expert in drug ministry has been engaged to help Anglican churches establish ‘restoration fellowships’ for people recovering from addictions.

Today, Christian parents have an overwhelming choice of schools as they think about education within the overall responsibility of nurturing children in a God-honouring way. How do parents choose in the educational ‘marketplace’?

Anglican Media Sydney has reconfirmed its position as the top Christian news team in Australia and New Zealand, flying out of the Word Power awards in Auckland with 5 gold awards from the 12 categories they were eligible.

After hearing that a pilot study of six church sites found that four had loose asbestos, Synod yesterday voted unanimously to pass a new law which will help clean up the risk.

Sydney Anglican parishes are set to pay “the price of a movie and a Big Mac” every week for the next three years to fund the resources for Connect 09, Synod heard last night.

The Sydney Diocese reclassified three churches to parish status at Synod yesterday and there are still two more to come.

The Archbishop Peter Jensen says Sydney Anglicans have reached a spiritual mountain of scepticism and secularism that must climbed if the Diocesan Mission is to succeed and the city won for Christ.

Despite the growing number of Muslims in our city, Sydney Anglican ministry to this people group is still underdeveloped according to workers in the field. Experts suggest fear in our churches is the main reason behind this unfortunate reality. While the task is considerable, these experts suggest overcoming this problem might be easier than we think.

As APEC dignitaries meet in Sydney this weekend Christian leaders are asking that they remember the world’s poor and oppressed.

Arguably the moment’s most influential Christian thinker in political theology, Professor Oliver O’Donovan will give the final lecture tonight of a series that has drawn a high and “surprisingly young” turnout to New College’s annual lecture series.

Organisers say it was the promise of 'practical Christianity' that drew a record number of men to this year's Men Meeting the Challenge conference.

As the mixture of politics and religion comes to the fore in the lead-up to the Federal election, the biography of a faithful politician is awarded this year’s Christian Book of the Year.

Moore College students are sharing their creativity and humour with the world thanks to the innovation of Youtube.

Southern Cross is a vital source of the news, opinions and views on the latest issues, resources and events affecting the church, both locally and around the world for over 325 parishes, schools and institutions - this month's power-point promotion slide now available...

“When AE (i.e. African Enterprise) introduced this training course, it was like God had come down from heaven. It has been so awesome and has opened so much of the word to me,” said Sylvia Pillay (not pictured), a South African church leader and evangelist.

Three more American clergy have been ordained by African churches in the lead-up to the September 30 deadline set for the US Episcopal Church to stop the ordination of gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex relationships, and set up a self-governing organisation for the US’s ‘traditionalist’ Anglicans.

Senior citizens are being ushered into the computer age every Thursday morning at St John’s, North Ryde.

Kevin Rudd’s popularity may be rising in the wake of the strip club scandal. But voter assessment of both contenders’ characters will matter come election day, argues Jeremy Halcrow.

Dr Bryan Cowling reveals the new vision for education embraced by Sydney Anglicans.

Some images we see of life in Africa are heart wrenching, especially those coming out of Zimbabwe.

A “storm in a teacup” – a minor argument or fight - is sometimes useful. It can help you see people in a new light. Consider the “storm in a teacup” that followed the proposal in a recent Southern Cross that the diocese set up a College of Church Music.

Polygamy may only seem to be an issue for Mormons and actors in the series Big Love for western Christians. But Bishop Glenn Davies reveals how it remains a vexed issue for the international church, whose answer has to be found in the pages of the Bible.

How many newcomers or visitors come to your church in a given year? If you have any above zero then what I am about to say is of vital importance to you. Because it is not the number of newcomers or visitors that is the important figure, it is the number who come back or with whom we keep in contact.

Most ministers fear not being creative enough when it comes to spreading the Gospel. But we can all reflect on what others are doing and consider how their ideas might work in our context. Here are some new doors to walk through...

The virtual mid-point of our 10-year Diocesan Mission program prompts us to ask again why we have chosen the figure of 10 per cent in our plans to reach the population of our region in a decade.

The fourth series of Kath & Kim doesn’t seem to have suffered too much from its transition to the Seven Network, the only certainty being it would involve another parody of our obsession with ourselves.

Evan Almighty be the most helpful Christian film to hit cinemas in decades.

In a world where the evidence for hatred, jealously and meanness of all kinds is so obvious, western audiences continually search for tales which will affirm their faith in the existence of love. Stardust will certainly oblige.

If you like your 21st-century punk (as opposed to old school mohawks, safety pins and on-stage excreter punk) then Paper Walls is for you. Think Blink182 without the puerile adolescence, Simple Plan without the winging or AFI without the cranky pants.