CMS NSW must play an educative role in Sydney churches in order to confront the attitudes underlying the Cronulla riots, says the newly appointed head of the missionary organisation.

Police are investigating a spate of attacks on churches across Sydney, including two Anglican buildings as church officials consider supposed links with recent race riots.

The ABC Boyer lectures have hit the bookstores, and in his final lecture this Sunday, the Archbishop of Sydney offers his strongest criticism yet of the individualism he says is distorting Australian political life.

Key Christian groups have responded to renewed racial violence with a call to prayer in Cronulla, beginning this weekend.

A new style of Sydney Anglican prayer group is using personal connections to locate and develop missionary opportunites around the world.

A campaign to highlight Aboriginal poverty needs to be well supported.

Anglican ministers from communities caught up in the weekends hostility say a culture of disobedience, lack of police resources, and cultural tensions, are contributing to the citys woes.

A Sydney Anglican caught in the maelstrom of yesterdays violence at Cronulla says he has never seen clearer evidence of a citys need for Christ.