Some pastors work too much, and some dont work enough. But for the majority, one of the constant struggles is deciding when theyre doing productive work and when theyre not. What does it mean to do good, productive, effective work, when that work is the work of being a full-time paid minister of the word of God?

Dear readers, unless you have enjoyed the last 11 of Lemony Snickets books you should probably just stop reading now. As we are warned every time we pick up one of these sorry tales, there is no point getting started on them if you prefer your endings to be happy (your middles and beginnings, too). But if, like me, you are up to date with the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, Im telling you now; read Book 12, The Penultimate Peril!

Sydneys support for Aboriginal ministry in the Northern Territory is expected to build with the appointment of CMS missionary Greg Anderson to be head of Moore Colleges Department of Mission from the beginning of 2007.

Sixty-eight-year old Gwen Beck, a member of the Central Coast Evangelical Church, is one of a number of church families known to have narrowly escaped bushfires that hit Phegans Bay on Sunday.

Do you have an involvement with a local radio station? Would you like to hear a particularly Australian telling of the Gospel on the airways? The Bible Society has a product for you, and best of all it's free.

I'm all for process. That is, providing events and programmes and opportunities for the gospel so that our unsaved friends will keep on hearing of God in Christ.

Church leaders from 13 countries have rounded off 2005 by spending two weeks at the first Ministry Training Strategy conference at Moore College.

Dont imagine that recent Australian discussion regarding the separation of church and state is due to some strange, new, 'unAustralian rise of the religious right. The problem of defining the relation between these two powerful but diverse social institutions is one which has always been liable to recur, and in recurring to arouse long and bitter dispute.