Packing his bags for Africa, retiring CEO Rodney Dredge reflects on his legacy and regrets after eight years steering the Sydney Diocesan Secretariat.

Ideas that were once widely credited but that we now find absurd or horrifying are a limitless source of human fascination. Rachel Kohn has selected some of the stranger episodes of religion and science for our entertainment.

A new internet-based social networking website is taking the world by storm and Sydney Anglicans are jumping on board.

One Sydney Anglican spent her long service leave working harder than ever in the slums of Ethiopia.

As a writer, I do not believe in relevance. I especially do not believe in relevance as a criterion for preaching, when that means the attempt to translate the biblical and theological language into words the average man already uses, from fear that he will not listen if the inherited language is used instead. Few preachers are good enough with words to do this without losing truths they should not be losing.

Every ministry that we share in with others either creates goodwill or uses it up. We need to learn when it is time to spend that good will, and when it would be better to save.

Over more than 25 years, Col Marshalls great work has been to develop and promote the strategy of recruiting and training men and women for gospel ministry - this book shares his quarter century of wisdom on the subject.

The 2006 census reveals that people are increasingly reluctant to identify themselves with a church they dont go to.