Nothing looks likely to quieten the cheer squad for a human rights charter. So do churches need to lobby Mr Rudd to defend religious freedom?

Dr Bryan Cowling, head of the Anglican Education Commission, has made clear his opposition to an application before the NSW Government to provide ethics classes as an alternative to school Scripture (SRE).

The place of alcohol in church life is now set to be debated by each parish

Jesus led the Christian well beyond the concept of 'rights' with two tales of two brothers.

Why have churches lost their halo in recent decades? And is this a problem?

On the final night of the 2009 Synod, the Anglican Diocese of Sydney has passed a resolution embracing the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).

Individual parishes will be responsible for setting their own guidelines for the consumption of alcohol on church grounds after a new policy was passed by Synod last night.

It was many years ago, and I was at a small church with nice people, a nice pastor, and solid (if unspectacular) teaching. It is difficult now to understand how things went so wrong.