The Episcopal Church in the USA has voted to accept Gene Robinson, a minister living in a long-term homosexual relationship, as a bishop. GEORGE CONGER, a conservative minister and journalist from Florida, reports exclusively for Southern Cross from Minneapolis.

A former Latin teacher from Bulli near Wollongong retired recently as Bishop of North West Australia. Bishop Anthony Nichols, also at different times in his life a missionary in Indonesia, a tutor at Moore College and the Principal of a college to train Aboriginal ordinands in Darwin, acknowledges that his appointment, nearly 12 years ago, was ‘fairly unusual'.

Last month's Cell Church Summit in Brisbane gave many Australian ministers their first taste of a church growth strategy that has swept the world.

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.

The Malula family are living proof that the bold move to combine the gifts of Cabramatta Anglican Church and Anglicare has paid off.

All Saints', Cammeray made history on 27 July when it opened its doors for a new 9am service.

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'.

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.