As thousands of students flood university campuses this month, are Christians ready to be bold?

How easily migrants fit into life in Australia parallels how smoothly they become part of our church life.

They experienced Muslim gunmen shooting at children during their 15 years serving in Pakistan, but the Newmarch family say it is harder to be a Christian at home in Australia.

Who are we are seeking to share Christ with? A recently published report from the Church of England, The Mission-Shaped Church: Church Planting and Fresh Expressions of Church in a Changing Context (Church House Publishing, 2004) has much to teach us. Or rather, to remind us of what we are also finding in our own Mission.

Who are we are seeking to share Christ with? A recently published report from the Church of England, The Mission-Shaped Church: Church Planting and Fresh Expressions of Church in a Changing Context (Church House Publishing, 2004) has much to teach us. Or rather, to remind us of what we are also finding in our own Mission.

Trinity Grammar School has taken a bold step to support the Diocesan Mission and in doing so has revitalised a local church.

So great have been the technological changes of the last decades that many church buildings have had to undergo radical alterations. The result are frequently incoherent and messy.

Radical moves by the Church of England may see cafés and nightclubs opened up in parish buildings to pay for church planting, and historic bishop’s houses and palaces sold if they do not meet strict financial targets.