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Your pastor is wearing all the hats

One Sutherland Shire parish is bucking a damaging trend within Sydney Anglican churches to 'professionalise ministry. Over the past four years, Miranda has embraced 'every member ministry, handing responsibility for key frontline ministry to ordinary parishioners. However, research show that few Sydney Anglican churches are heading in the same direction.

Has Jesus broken your heart?

Have we really understood the fact that without Jesus the people we live among are on their way to hell? Even in our churches, I wonder how often we speak about this.

Could you not stay awake one hour?

"Our sermons only go for 40 to 50 minutes" said the comment on sydneyanglicans.nets forum. The word 'only hit me like a hammer.

The Secret

With The Secret claiming to hold the key to our happiness (as well as holding the key to finding the perfect parking space) I couldnt resist investigating further.

What I know about missing the beat

Sydney Anglicans eschew hip hop. Are we right to avoid its crude and criminally inspired lyrics, or is it a sign that were not reaching a large subculture within our community? Springwood Anglican Jesse Gardiner shares his insight...

Nothing in my hand I bring

For years the fears of reigniting bitter sectarian battles from the past have lead to a relative silence from Protestant writers about Roman Catholicism until this book.

The key issue: flexible training

As a working mum, the pastoral care minister at St Lukes, Miranda, Jennie Everist is grateful Mary Andrews College (MAC) has enabled her to continue theological training despite her busy schedule.

Australia’s Titanic

The wreck of the Dunbar reminds us it is to Jesus that we must look for our eternal future, for as the disciples said, "Who then is this, that even wind and sea obey him?"

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