Gloria Boyd's phone has been running hot since the shock announcement that financial pressures will force Anglicare's boarding school for intellectually disabled children to shut its doors within 12 months.

Anglican ecumenical relationships are severely damaged following the New Hampshire consecration.

The newly formed congregation at St Mary's, Balmain, part of the federation of churches known collectively as Darling Street Anglican Church, is not a traditional church plant, but that has not stopped it flourishing.

Each of Australia's 244 Federal Members of Parliament has received a copy of the 2003 Christian Book of the Year, Islam in our Backyard, as part of a special project by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge to combat religious relativism.

Faithfulness in Service, a revised draft national Code for the practice of pastoral ministry by clergy and lay church workers, has been released for further public comment after extensive consultation with Anglicans earlier this year.

Unless there is repentance and Jesus is our Lord, God's promise of inclusion does not apply to us.

The International Bible Society (IBS) has sent Scripture booklets, Bibles and New Testaments to Southern California churches and fire department chaplains in the wake of the most devastating wildfires in the state's history.

Missionaries and supporters who attend January's CMS Summer School at Katoomba will get the chance to meet Marion Gabbott, 63 – wife of the rector of Christ Church, Bangkok, Stephen Gabbott – and hear about a ministry that extends from supporting refugees and reaching out to prisoners in a Bangkok jail, to convincing expatriates of the importance and relevance of the Bible.