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Archbishop Writes: Raising up messengers of the gospel

Our Mission is based on the conviction that people need to be saved through the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. They will be brought to a knowledge of Jesus through the gospel as it is used by the Holy Spirit. God's appointed way of sharing the gospel is through human messengers.

Churches encouraged by PM’s comments

Prime Minister John Howard bought into the debate on homosexuality last month when he stated that traditional marriage was necessary for the ‘survival of the species'.

Bedside, bathtub or beach, this new Aussie Bible is fair dinkum

CNN, Reuters, The Sydney Morning Herald and the BBC have all been knocking on the door of author and broadcaster Kel Richards to learn more about his latest work The Aussie Bible (well bits of it anyway). “I've been bowled over by it,” he says of the worldwide interest in his book, launched last month, which takes the story of Jesus' life from the New Testament and re-tells it in chronological order using the Aussie idiom.

‘Please forgive us’, say Uniting Church evangelicals

The national chairperson of the Evangelical Members within the Uniting Church (EMU) has pleaded with Sydney Anglicans for forgiveness, saying all Uniting Church members have to accept fault for the recent decision to allow the Church's presbyteries to accept and ordain practicing homosexual clergy.

Millennial women need Jesus

When 500 women gathered for the first time since the launch of the Diocesan Mission to find fresh ways to reach their unbelieving Sydney sisters with the gospel, the challenge was to come to grips with a female population gripped by the ‘new spirituality', soaring depression levels and ‘time-poor lifestyles'.

Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl

The notion of forking out fourteen dollars to see a film based on a Fun Park ride seems like a dubious investment. What's next? A movie version of Dodgem Cars? To compound the problem, the film in question is a pirate flick – a genre whose recent offerings have been resounding disasters. However Pirates of the Caribbean is rescued from certain ignominy by a cracker script (from the writers of Shrek), swashbuckling action and a riotous performance by Johnny Depp.

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