The shape of St Barnabas’, Broadway’s new building is still a mystery, but a revelation is coming soon.

Seasoned evangelist John Chapman says he feels “cared for wonderfully” as an older member of his church. However he admits resources for telling the gospel to his generation are thin on the ground, and the need grow ministries to the elderly will only increase. What are Sydney Anglicans doing to address this need?

A beachside parish's injection of new life two years ago has led to amazing growth among kids and families.

Are we failing newcomers? What really helps newcomers integrate into church life? A pilot study of Anglican churches in South Sydney region has revealed some answers. Jeremy Halcrow looks at the five most welcoming parishes and gets their hospitality tips.

A new internet-based social networking website is taking the world by storm and Sydney Anglicans are jumping on board.

In its continuing analysis of the 2006 census data, your.sydneyanglicans.net considers the confronting implications of a decreasing number of Sydney-siders prepared to wear the Anglican badge. Why is identification dropping? How does it compare with church figures? And what does it mean for ministry in 2007 and beyond?

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Smithfield Road parishioner Michelle Osborne got to know God by not listening.

St Augustine’s, Neutral Bay made the evening news last month with Pub Church, a four-week outreach in which Sunday night church ‘services’ were held at The Oaks Hotel, a local pub.

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CMS missionary to Italy, Dean Ingham says Pope Benedict XVI’s reassertion last month of the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church and suggestion that Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation will not affect his ministry to university students.

A CMS missionary couple has offered praise to God that the government has finally intervened in remote communities.

Often because South Africa seems quite similar to Australia on the surface – glittering shopping malls, freeways, detached houses, gum trees and barbecues – you forget how different it is.

Shellharbour City Centre Anglican Church, in conjunction with Shellharbour Anglican College, are planning to start a new church in the school. As part of their planning they sent a team out to different church plants. What they found was a real eye opener into what is considered the forefront of the Sydney mission.

On Reagenomics and the gospel.

There now exists a Global South Network which is making its presence forcefully felt, especially through its leaders’ presence in Anglican Communion primates’ meetings.

It is often held that gospel outreach amongst seniors is easy. It is thought that with age comes a clearer vision of the eternity that waits beyond the grave. But I am not sure aging does have this effect.

I’m sorry to say it, but I think The Chaser team are losing their edge. Let me explain by twice quoting that other comic genius, Homer Simpson.

OK, for the sake of the fans, let’s get straight down to it. Is this a good Harry Potter film? Yes. Better than the book? It’s certainly shorter. Will I be looking to buy fresh tickets on my way out of the cinema? Undoubtedly…

I was sitting at the exclusive red carpet preview of Transformers and I was in anything but a good mood. Christian reviewers refer to productions like this as ‘popcorn films’ – a snack rather than a meal.

Part Indiana Jones, part The Da Vinci Code, and part Discovery Channel with a bit of CSI and Numb3rs thrown in for good measure, the authors of this book claim to have found the final resting place of Jesus and his family’s mortal remains.

Jack Spong is back. Once again he is visiting Australia to promote a new book. This one is called Jesus for the Non-Religious and like so many of his others it pulls no punches.

In her wildly successful “children’s” series JK Rowling has constructed a narrative that asks us to consider not just how we should live but matters of eternal consequence.