This is the last winter that more than 900 people who are homeless or sleep on the streets of the inner-city will have food, warm clothes and a friendly face to talk to because of Malcolm Bloomfield.

Danebank Anglican School for Girls at Hurstville is to shatter the stereotype that private education is all about academic success when it becomes the first mainstream, independent school in Sydney to offer a scholarship to a child with a learning disability.

Sydney-based music ministry EMU is moving offshore to meet the demands of the digital revolution.

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After reviewing their ‘life goals’ together, Paul and Suzanne Johnson decided long-term support for Moore College was a key part of defending and promoting the gospel.

I never tire of hearing the stories of what has led our students to come to study at Moore College. Within the huge variety of stories, three themes occur again and again.

My husband Marco had been ministering in the parish of St Luke’s Miranda for nine years when he died suddenly from a heart attack in the early hours of Monday, 29 November 1999. He was aged 44, I was 42 and our three children were in their middle teenage years.

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

Lay people wanting to enter stipendiary ministry in Sydney Diocese will be required to answer a comprehensive series of questions about their lifestyle under new rules aimed at tightening child protection standards in churches.

Nine American dioceses have formally expressed displeasure with their own US Anglican branch over its advocacy of homosexuals in ministry, and are looking for a new way to stay in communion with the Anglican world.

Churches in Kerala are holding special prayers to protest a new bill by the Indian State’s Communist Government which restricts Christian instruction in schools. Communist student activists attacked and extensively vandalised several Christian-run colleges .

Lebanese Christians have expressed their distress at the reaction to their plight in the West.

A Moore College graduate is bringing a high church alive for a new generation, writes MADELEINE COLLINS.

Newtown parish faces massive heritage issues but is seizing the opportunities for ministry, writes NATASHA PERCY.

Two Victorian pastors convicted of vilifying Muslims at a church seminar in 2002 will take their appeal against the ruling to the Supreme Court on August 21. Danny Nalliah (right) and Daniel Scot allege the judgement of the Victorian Civil and Administration Tribunal against Catch the Fire ministries under the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act was biased.

Widespread gang rape as part of the DRC’s civil war has intensified the AIDS pandemic and left the Anglican Church as the last hope.

Parishes and ministries across the Diocese can expect to be better equipped for their task than ever before, thanks to a new position aimed at promoting and resourcing the Mission.

KAMAL WEERAKOON is combining full-time study at Moore College with ministry at St Anne’s, Strathfield. He shares his trials and joys as a trainee minister.

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BRIAN ROSNER examines how Dietrich Bonhoeffer faced the knowledge he would be executed by the Nazis, in this extract from an upcoming lecture at Moore College’s School of Theology.

From ancient Greek theatre, through the theatrical productions of the Elizabethan age and into the present, real life tragedy and disaster have played a part in the writing and performing of drama. In modern society the most common expression of such stories is through cinema – a medium associated with escapism and entertainment. Movie making is also a business involving millions of dollars. So is there an ethical dilemma in the turning of real life tragedy into a commercial venture? Is there a moral quandary in making entertainment out of another’s suffering?

As a community, Australians care deeply about schooling for their children and are prepared to put a great deal of money towards it -often more than they can afford. Yet, that passions run high does not indicate agreement as to what education is or should be about. Symptomatic of this passionate confusion are the calls that have come periodically from the conservative wing of politics for a return to ‘values education’ – a debate that has lately focused in recent weeks around the teaching of history.

A proposed Aboriginal school in Redfern is showing that Sydney Anglicans could help bridge the gap between the education ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’. JEREMY HALCROW and MADELEINE COLLINS investigate the implications for how all Anglican schools are run.

Broughton Knox stands as one of the two most significant influences of all in the history of the Diocese of Sydney, writes MARCIA CAMERON.

Everyone who knew Dr Knox has their favourite stories about him – here is one of mine. I always enjoyed sitting with him in the College Dining Room at lunch watching him eating his orange from a plate with a knife and fork.

Forgive me if this sounds like a bad joke: but I want to tell you what the evangelical said – or rather wrote – to the lesbian priest.

Grief affects every church community but we could be better prepared. KYM FUHRMANN speaks to Sydney Anglicans whose lives have been touched by loss.

I see that the Diocese is being labelled again, this time by being called ‘Puritan’. We are already the recipients of a number of insulting names and descriptions, including ‘fundamentalist’, ‘right-wing’, ‘conservative’, ‘evangelical’, ‘anti-women’ and ‘anti-gay’. This name-calling is unpleasant and unfair. It is often meant to cut off argument and to create disdain or even disgust. It is not a new phenomenon, of course, and it is important not to be too upset by it. In fact, one useful antidote is to be well-informed on the issues and historically well informed as well.

On September 11, 2001 four American planes were hijacked over US airspace. Two were flown into the World Trade Center in New York. One was flown into the Pentagon in Washington. The fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. This was United Airlines flight 93.

Karma is the key plot device for what is surely one of the funniest American sit-com offerings this year. Earl makes himself a list and sets out to right every wrong he has ever done so that the universe will finally let good things happen to him. And as he attempts to undo the consequences of a life of the pettiest crimes his quest leads him into increasingly ridiculous situations.

I thoroughly recommend An Enigmatic Life. Whether, like me, you knew and loved ‘DBK’ or whether you (surprisingly) have never heard of him until now, this book will richly repay careful reading.