Mark Calder says that in our enthusiam to fight against ‘worship' being reduced to the Sunday service, Anglicans in Sydney have actually made ‘worship' everything bar the hour on Sunday.

“There is a big need for this sort of training in Kenya,” says Stephen Mbogo, head of African Evangelistic Enterprise – Kenya, of the Moore College External Studies course ‘Creation to New Creation', which was recently taught in Nairobi.

As Shia Muslims in Iraq become more aggressive in their demands for an Islamic state based on Shari'ah, anti-Christian violence has escalated with the brutal murder of two Christian men.

As students from Moore College joined Sydney churches for their annual Mission Week last month, one team headed north of the border to work with an Anglican parish in Brisbane. They successfully trialled some innovative evangelism strategies while forming a strong relationship with their northern counterparts.

Archbishop Peter Jensen’s bioethics advisor, Dr Megan Best, has been appointed to the key regulatory body for embryonic stem cell research by the Federal Government.

I know that, as Christian people, we have all been very concerned about the drought that has gripped so much of NSW, and the special needs of those who work on the land. This concern is reflected in the warm response to the Archbishop's Appeal in February this year.

In a frank assessment of the church's role in Australia's drought-stricken rural areas, the head of the Bush Church Aid Society (BCA) says ministers and congregations have failed to properly respond to the current crisis and must do better.

Last month, St Luke's, Miranda and Jannali Anglican Church both introduced new Sunday services – St Luke's launching a third morning service, and Jannali starting a third evening meeting.