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.

Paul and Jecinta were two of the students from the two-week Creation to New Creation course (also known as Introduction to the Bible) conducted during October in Nairobi, Kenya by the Rev Peter Sholl, assistant minister at St Matthew's, Ashbury.

The present case before the Civil and Administrative Tribunal in Victoria, under that State's Racial and Religious Tolerance Act, has raised the real questions of freedom of speech and religious tolerance in a civil society. The case concerns vilification purported to have been done by a charismatic Christian group in a seminar on the differences between Christians and Muslims. What stand should Christians take in such a matter?

Michael Youssef's dual-language broadcasts of the gospel have uncovered a great spiritual hunger.