I was chatting to a friend about someone who had "de-converted" from Christianity, and I lamented that he had not been able to see past his fundamentalist upbringing. My friend said, "But aren't we fundamentalists too?"

Churches do body counts. How else could you measure progress? Here are six reasons we should not measure success by attendance.

Philip Gerber, the inaugural director of Sydney Dioceses Professional Standards Unit, is resigning in July to work with the Diocese of Northern Territory.

I must make the most of every opportunity to preach Christ. Even on my 'day off', I must continue to be a minister.

There was never any threat to freedom of speech and if ISP filtering posed this, ACL would not be supporting it.

Last year, Mark Driscoll said 300 young men had approached him eager to plant a church. Peter Wood could have been one of them, describing his churchplanting venture at 'permission' rather than push.

Walter Rauschenbusch was the eighth in a line of pastors and he realised that in order to serve the spiritual needs of his poverty-stricken congregation, he would have to address their whole lives.

I am frankly sick of "leaders" ruining the atmosphere of the meeting/service and disrupting the focus on God with half-baked comic lines.