Newly released evidence from the National Church Life Survey (NCLS) that caring for outsiders, particularly migrants, improves a church's ability to win converts is set to inform church planting strategies in South Sydney.

The 'James Ossuary', originally hailed as a remarkable find last year, is now being widely reported as a forgery.

Mary Andrews College has decades of history, while Youthworks College has been in operation just a few short years. But faculty members from the two colleges are looking to work together to equip men and women for Christian life and ministry.

Two ways to live, the classic outline that has helped thousands of people like Graeme Hoinville to grasp the gospel, is being put back on the agenda as part of basic training for all Christians, writes GEOFF ROBSON.

The rector of one of Sydney's largest churches says leaders must set the example by inviting friends to church.

With the majority of churches in South Sydney region having less than 150 members, the struggle is often to stretch resources to maintain ministry to the ageing Australian-born congregation.

This book comes with a solid endorsement by JI Packer, who tells us that Michael Horton's ‘enlivening wisdom is surely a godsend to all evangelicals'. As you leaf through the book you find sharp observations about how we run church and helpful secular wisdom about church, religion, and Gen-X and Y thinking. Most importantly, one discovers a serious attempt to maintain the primacy of the word of God, over and against a modern tendency within evangelical churches to be simultaneously seeker-driven and theologically vacuous.

ANDREW SHEAD says there is more to praise than criticise in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix