Five months, eight thousand kilometres and one life-time ago Nathan Brown was wondering what life was like for persecuted Christians in the Middle East. Now he knows.

Sydney Diocese has always been a vigorous, albeit at times cantankerous, place, while still playing a role in the wider Anglican Church in Australia and the world. But there has not been, as Dr Porter suggests, some terrible shift of late towards fundamentalism or an effort to revitalise sixteenth-century English Puritanism.

Acting Judge Peter Grogan is coming out of retirement to take on the role of the Dioceses leading legal eagle.

In the Introduction which precedes chapter 1, Porter says that her aim ""¦ is not to report on Sydney (Anglican diocese) objectively and even-handedly "¦" She achieves this aim brilliantly. She also says that the book "cannot help but be polemical". Polemical it certainly is. Unfortunately, it is also highly inaccurate.

Spiritual renewal through prayer is on the agenda at St Paul's Menai, where congregation members are leading the way in adopting the 40 day diocesan prayer program, The Ephesus Code.

Why do Christian schools so often aim at those most likely to climb the ladder of success?

We dont like to see ourselves as racist "“ a 2002 survey conducted by a senior lecturer in geography from the University of New South Wales found 83 per cent of respondents agreed there was racial prejudice in Australia, but 80.2 per cent denied they were racist themselves.

As part of the relaunch this week of Southern Cross, Anglican Media is providing clergy better tools to assist them in promoting the newspaper.