Bondi Beach has gone from an ‘ailing parish’ to a flourishing ministry, thanks to a unique partnership.

A survey of churches reveals only 15 per cent of Sydney Anglicans see outreach as something they “most value”.

Churches run in partnership with Anglican school plants are growing fast by exclusively drawing on an unchurched population. Can a parish plant a school-based church without at least an equal partnership with the host school? An experimental church run by Springwood-Winmalee Anglican Church is testing the boundaries of the existing strategy. The planter of this church - Craig Schafer - is the special guest on our forums this week. You can ask him about the strengths and weaknesses of this model here

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Just 12 years ago, Raymond Leung joined St James’, Minto’s Chinese congregation. Now he is its ‘de facto’ pastor.

We unmask the Church’s ‘agent provocateurs’ who remain unrepentant about offending Australia.

Southern Cross reports on the main decisions of the Diocese in March.

The latest Christian news from around Australia.

The rector of St James’, Minto, the Rev Chris Hanger has been at the church for two years and seen three new congregations start in his time there.

Andrew Robinson, recently graduated as a journalist from Sydney Uni, is spending this year as a ministry trainee at Melville Union Church in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The latest Christian news from around the world.

A reflection on the lives of Mary Rowlands and Rex Meyer.

Clergy moves and appointments for the month of April.

Vacant parish information for the month of April.

Letters to the editor for the month of April.

Sally Ruth Bird shares on love, loss, grief and the importance of church.

Amazing stories of courage and generosity are emerging from the flash flood disaster at Broughton Anglican College

We unmask the Church’s ‘agent provocateurs’ who remain unrepentant about offending Australia...

Cath Finney Lamb outlines a dozen ways to help people stay connected to God and the church in the wake of divorce.

The Episcopal Church (TEC) reactions to the Communique from the February Primates’ Meeting are fascinating. If these represent mainstream TEC views, where is the Anglican Communion headed?

Let those without sin chuck the hundredth stone.

Conversion to Christ is the great moment of liberation and cleansing.

Does 300 signal a new front in the battle to define modern masculinity?

This month Australians will wave goodbye to a long-serving politician they have grown to respect and admire – and despite current international tensions, he happens to be American.

More than anything, The God Delusion is a self-help book for those who wish to escape their religious upbringing and enter into the ‘freedom’ of unbelief.

Love Ella by Madeleine Witham could be described as an easy and quick read but really there is nothing easy at all about reading this book and there’s nothing fast to understanding its meaning.