With NSW's largest high school in its parish, Cherrybrook is taking the opportunity to reach youth for Christ.

Steve McKerihan has given up a top banking role after being inspired by the Diocesan Mission.

Australian women are some of the biggest consumers of Hollywood gossip in the world. Our latest research reveals a third of Sydney Anglicans regularly read women’s magazines. Is all that Tinseltown talk warping our minds? A panel of four women experts gave their advice. Speak with experts Ainsley Poulos and Dr Amelia Haines in our forums.

Katoomba’s family worker is an answer to one minister’s prayers.

Experts back Archbishop Jensen’s call for reform in NSW prisons.

Southern Cross reports on the main decisions of the Diocesan Standing Committee in May.

How can your church stay in mission mode once mission week is over? Natasha Percy has the inside story.

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 first complete translation of the Bible in an Aboriginal language was launched in the Northern Territory last month, reports Joseph Smith.

Is the Anglican Church in Central Africa fatally flawed by political divisions and a corrupt Zimbabwe?

Standing firm is a constant theme in the New Testament and a call repeated in most of the New Testament letters. But against what dangers do we have to stand firm in our society?

Rape, heartbreak and a party lifestyle could not separate Laki from God.

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Ainsley Poulos says that it takes everyone in a church to stop a destructive gossip culture from being fed. However Christians have a secret weapon in the battle against gossip – God.

Women and men are impacted by our celebrity-obsessed culture. Journalist Mark Hadley and TV producer Maia Hadley discuss their professional and personal insights.

Over recent weeks a series of articles have centred on the writings of atheists or agnostics, alarmed at the threat of religious belief.

It’s official – well at least it has been committed to newsprint – that Dean Philip Jensen is a ratbag.

The high costs of raising up missionaries means mission-minded Westerners might be better staying home and funding overseas theological colleges, argues Stuart Brooking.

Southern Cross explores how the shape of global mission is changing and what the new wave of non-Western missionaries can teach Sydney Christians.

In spiritual matters, experience does count. But there are dangers in building our faith on miraculous dreams and visions.

Based on the classic novel by Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia tells the story of Jesse and Leslie, a boy and girl from different backgrounds, united by ostracism and imagination.

The Shrek films are widely regarded as the funniest animation trilogy around, but what are we really laughing at?

Part Jurassic Park, part X-files, Primeval presents us with a team of British scientists confronted with evidence that long-extinct lizards are beginning to emerge.

This beautifully presented book purports to be a ‘gospel’ written by Benjamin Iscariot, the son of Judas Iscariot, and seeks to set the record straight about Judas’ involvement with Jesus Christ.