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Old clothes become big bucks for Kingswood

For nearly 20 years, one dollar at a time, the ministry-minded Anglicans of Kingswood have saved proceeds from an op-shop run a few days a week out of their tiny 1890s church building.

Depression in your church

We want to provide biblically underpinned support for depressed people in our congregations, but we dont always know how to do so. Keith Condie discusses some books on the subject that offer help.

Students’ new questions for new chaplain

Nowra Anglican Colleges new chaplain says youth workers are having to adopt new tactics with todays students asking anything but the same old questions.

Truth or Dare

Ill tell you a secret: I love reading books I can pick up and read from any point. Truth or Dare, an anthology in which 11 well-known writers share some of their personal secrets, is such a book. Incidentally so is the Bible.

Banned evangelists move to the bus-stop

Christian students at the University of Sydneys Cumberland campus have been forced to contact new students at bus stops because of new restrictions placed on the Evangelical Christian Union (ECU).

Sydney course wins Middle Eastern converts

News that three people recently came to Christ may not sound earth-shattering. However this trio live in a major Middle Eastern city, and were converted after attending a course written by a Sydney Anglican minister.

Church plan to cut abortion rate

A coalition of religious groups calling for a rethink Australias approach to abortion, believes Government could dramatically slash abortion numbers just through better education and support services for women.

The Wreck of Western Culture - Humanism Revisited

John Carroll, professor of sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, is not afraid of big ideas. His 2004 book The Wreck of Western Culture "“ a substantial reworking of a 1993 effort "“ is a passionate, daring and sustained attack on the bloodlines of what we call "the West." He calls his book "a spiritual history of the West." He writes with a refreshing polemical zeal and with none of the hedging and over-qualifying so characteristic of academic prose.

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