St Matthews, Manly is the 'church of the open door. The policy saved John Nicholls, who was planning to end his life until he was spotted by an old friend at the door of the church who invited him in.

Fractured Families gives an assessment of a group called 'the Fellowship which is mainly based in Melbourne. It had its origins in an intense spiritual movement in the Sydney University Evangelical Union in the 1930s and 40s.

Can a single weekend away teach you the secret of contentment? Close to 340 women assembled at Stanwell Tops to see how the Mary Andrews College Conference could bring focus to what can be a fuzzy yearning.

Ian Thuaux will be celebrating his 19th birthday in unusual circumstances for a Sydney teenager, following a sincere desire to do short-term mission to the other side of the world.

James Morrison is regarded as Australias best known jazz musician. Besides the trumpet, the multi-instrumentalist plays trombone, euphonium, flugel horn, tuba, saxophones, and piano. Morrison tells Joseph Smith that his introduction to the genre was through what he calls 'gospel jazz...

Legendary evangelist Billy Graham has just completed what is likely to be his last evangelistic crusade "“ but the echo of his voice is still being heard down under.

An internationally renowned Oxford don has defended his theory that the resurrection of Jesus is 97 per cent likely before a critical university audience.

In the first part of this essay (in Briefing #316), Tim Chester looked at the strong case that can be made for Christian social involvement, as well as the strong case for proclamation of the gospel being central. We now come to the question that has bedevilled evangelicals discussion of this subject for the past 30 years: What ought to be the relationship between social involvement and evangelism in Christian ministry and mission?