Kerri Newton has Ireland in her blood, and she can’t wait to get there.

‘A real lifesaver’ is how Pat Huxley describes the support for his family from local Christians following the attempted murder of his youngest daughter Lauren.

The Christian Democratic Party has called Family First’s decision not to contest the NSW State Election in 2007 an ‘answer to prayer’.

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

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

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

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.

Branded an extremist by some and hailed for his courage by others, former Muslim turned Anglican minister Patrick Sookhdeo is no stranger to persecution.

JOSEPH SMITH reports from the heart of the Shire to see how Christians are dealing with a changed suburb.

Michael Orpwood, Chancellor of Sydney Diocese, lived selflessly in the sure knowledge of life eternal with Christ.

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Anglican SuperFund Sydney is celebrating its first year with insurance giant AMP. Since moving to AMP in 2005 more than $650,000 has been saved by outsourcing administration costs and insurance premiums for members have been reduced by 25 per cent

New research by ANDREW CAMERON, JEREMY HALCROW and TRACY GORDON finds that the strength of Christian marriages is based on more than morality.

Hardliners. That is the public image of Sydney Anglicans on gender issues. But there’s a new wave of American Christian critics who would say we are wimps. They have invented a new term of abuse: ‘soft patriarchy’. It is thrown at evangelicals who have male headship in their theology but are too equal (for the critics) in the way family life is lived.

War orphans are an increasing phenomena emerging from international conflicts. Their plight is poignantly revealed in the Plan ad that’s been showing on TV screens of late. We see an African boy with an adult, and the voiceover says: ‘Since he was found beside the body of his dead mother he hasn’t said a word’. It is a stark reminder of children who have come out of horrific experiences to face life alone.

Not in living memory has a riot seemed so media-generated. Front page headlines about Aussie Pride. Radio chatter about violent Lebanese youth and counter-talk about the Bra Boys surfers fueled an already incendiary situation.

It was 1986, and Dave Dobbyn’s "Slice of Heaven" was booming out at the disco night of our youth camp. Before we knew it, the song had become the de facto theme for our weekend away.

It is tempting to think we should cut back on ministries when times are tough, yet the reverse is the case.

September 2001 was not the first time terrorism became prime time viewing. Twenty-nine years earlier, at the Munich Olympic Games, the world watched as eleven Israeli athletes were held hostage, and later killed, by the terrorist group Black September.