Five Blue Mountains churches have joined forces to celebrate the Olympics with a family-friendly outreach event.

Recent times have seen the rise of the 'New Atheism', an aggressive campaign seeking to undermine all religious belief. Former TIME correspondent David Aikman tackles this movement with his latest book, The Delusion of Disbelief "“ Why the New Atheism is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness.

The 'truths chronicled by Perrotta in The Abstinence Teacher are mostly concerned with sex, a subject with which most of his characters are unsettlingly obsessed (and one which saturates the book, in some fairly distasteful ways).

What is an "evangelical"? There is a series of similar words that are commonly confused such as "evangelical", "evangelism", "evangelistic", "evangelise", "evangelist" and "evangelicalism". These words carry so much meaning to the initiated but are quite confusing to others.

Sydney Anglicare's Bondi office's final Care 2 Run campaign and cafe metres from the City 2 Surf finishing line has raised $30,000.

Toongabbie Anglican has just seen their 'Christmas in Winter womens event sell out, with 25 per cent of the tickets going to visitors. Rector of Toongabbie, Raj Gupta says the key to running a successful event which reaches your community is not coming up with the best idea, or even clever marketing, but the process of giving lay people ownership.

NCLS have calmed fears raised by August's Southern Cross, that a hold-up in releasing their Community Connection Packs may make it difficult for parishes to place accurate Bible resource orders by Connect09s mid-October deadline.

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