In the wake of National Foster Carers' week, Anglicare says more foster carers are urgently needed for short-term crisis care.

During the final day of Synod for 2007, Sydney Diocese has decided move in step with the Australian Anglican church on the issue of child protection.

After a passionate debate, Sydney Synod has expressed its concern at recent attacks on the penal substitutionary understanding of Christs atoning death by some high profile Anglican leaders.

Sydney Anglicans have sent a strong rebuke to the NSW Parliament for its addiction to gaming revenue, as part of a raft of motions which also tackled the problem of gambling within the church.

Anglican Media Sydney has reconfirmed its position as the top Christian news team in Australia and New Zealand, flying out of the Word Power awards in Auckland with 5 gold awards from the 12 categories they were eligible.

Starting a Bible school without books or buildings, visiting parishes where there are no roads, sending messages where there is no post, running seminars where participants don't have Bibles...these are just a few of the challenges myself and my wife and Elizabeth Richards have faced in the two years since they came to work for the Diocese of Kindu in the heart of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Sydney is playing host to numerous friends in the Anglican Communion this week. Two Chilean clergy and a bishop from the Democratic Republic of Congo are taking part in Mission Hour at Synod this year as part of their visit.

At the very beginning of The Living Church John Stott reminds us that to be a Christian is to be committed to the body of Christ, despite its imperfections. "I trust that none of my readers is that grotesque anomaly, an unchurched Christian," he says.