UPDATED WED 5PM: A number of opportunities for prayer and Bible reflection on the Victorian bushfire tragedy have been organised in Sydney for this week. "¨

I have been really interested in the whole prosperity debate. When I look at the extremes of the prosperity teaching I want to cringe. But when I read reports of it from other Christians, I ask myself, what are you trying
to say?, writes Paul Dallimore.

In Patrick Lencioni's book 'The Three Signs of a Miserable Job' he states that the inability to measure results is one of the three key causes of job dissatisfaction. The problem for ministers is that most of the important results of our ministry are immeasurable.

UPDATED THUR 11AM: Gippsland bishop John McIntyre has called on Sydney Anglicans to pray for Victorians in shock as the death toll and damage continues to climb.

Kerrie Newmarch and Paul Gaetjens have made history as the first Youthworks College graduates to be ordained as deacons in the Sydney Diocese.

Connect09 has officially been launched, after yesterdays Big Day In, which saw 200 Sydney Anglican churches join together in the first ever TV link-up across the Sydney Diocese. Hosting church Kellyville Anglican was abuzz as film crews and special guests made for a very different Sunday morning experience. Sydneyanglicans.net brings you our behind-the-scenes coverage of Big Day In at Kellyville, and reveals how the event has given several Sydney Anglican churches a technology boost.

Landscape of Farewell was an interesting experience for me. It was a journey into the inner world of men. It treated subjects that, as a woman, I am familiar with: friendship, finding meaning and reconciliation. Yet it was all from the perspective of males.

Join Archbishop Peter Jensen in a weekly online Bible Study series on The Essential Jesus (the gospel of Luke).