Whenever Bishop John Shelby Spong visits Australia, as he did last month, it is certain that the attention he receives from the nation's secular press will be out of proportion to his international significance. He is winsome, he has a reputation as a campaigner for the rights of oppressed minorities, and he attacks evangelical Christians using the fearful epithet ‘fundamentalist'.

John Harrower, the Bishop of Tasmania, has joined the chorus of protest against the teachings of Bishop John Spong to coincide with the retired US Bishop's recent visit to Australia.

George Bush and Lois Rabey may have both touched down in Australia for the for the first time last month, but the similarity of their visits ends there. While angry crowds at protest marches marked Bush's visit, fellow American Lois Rabey was greeted with sell-out venues filled with non-Christians eager to hear her story.

The talent of female clergy is going to waste and the church is suffering because women are not permitted to be bishops, the Archdeacon of Melbourne's Northern region has claimed.

Youth ministers and leaders across Sydney will be encouraged to be ‘mission minded' in reaching out to young people across the city at Anglican Youthworks' 2003 Youth Ministry Conference next month.

Quite a few years ago, the Principal of Mary Andrews College, Narelle Jarrett, took an initiative which I was very doubtful about. She opened up the possibility of diploma level study in a part-time way at centres around the Diocese, especially geared to women students.