The India Training Mission begins to build up speed with volunteers from St Cuthberts Anglican church and further afield beginning their first classes for pastors and lay leaders...

Hornsby Anglicans have a new plan for making Moore College courses more accessible to busy mums and the isolated elderly "“ deliver lessons in the language of their heart.

St. Cuthbert's Naremburn & Cammeray is the driving force behind the India Training Mission - an expedition to train southern Indian pastors and key leaders to teach Moore College's PTC to in the south of India. Get up close and personal to the mission as Sydneyanglicans.net posts the experiences of first-time team members...

The novels of Robert Drewe are peopled by men and women ill at ease with their environs. His characters are often searching for or escaping from something. But Drewe is rarely content to focus solely on the individual; grander themes of social responsibility and morality are usually at work behind the human drama. His novel Grace is no exception. Ostensibly a thriller "“ a woman on the run from a stalker "“ the surface narrative is imbued with reflections on the way our society treats refugees.

Wow is the word that describes the way Megan Sakoua feels about meeting with the Women on Wednesdays (WOW) Bible study group at St Johns, Sylvania.

Lately, in my bioethical reading, I have been struck by how often people mention Aldous Huxleys 1932 novel, entitled "Brave New World" (2). I remembered it from childhood as a science fiction work predicting a world of assisted reproduction and eugenics. On re-reading the book recently, I was struck by something else. Huxley describes a technological world that many people would consider to be paradise. No sense of oppression here: citizens of the World State have everything they would ever want. Life is ordered and comfortable, with disease, aggression, envy, suffering and guilt having been eradicated from society. But also eliminated are democracy, family, art and self-awareness.

A new five-part discussion guide from the Bible Society provides a useful way of turning the current interest in CS Lewis' Narnia chronicles into an investigation of what this acclaimed writer and Scripture have to say about God and His world.

Six couples trying to start a new church in a hard to reach part of Sydney have transformed into a committed group of almost 70 believers just 24 months later.