The honest approach has earned a Christian musician high praise from an audience of Northern suburbs fans.

The superannuation of thousands of Sydney diocesan staff and clergy worth more than $120 million dollars is about to be transferred to insurance giant AMP.

A local Anglican church and Anglican Retirement Villages are building on their strengths to create a ground-breaking ministry to the Hills business community.

Archbishop Peter Jensen and award-winning author Thomas Kenneally will be using the best-seller 'The Da Vinci Code as a cue to debate the origins of the Christian church.

We're in "mission mode" at our little church in Pyrmont. Some might deem our efforts decidedly old-fashioned. "1950's evangelism" is how it was put to me recently. But here's the thing; we're actually interacting with outsiders.

The way Jesus taught his disciples is a brilliant model for anyone who wants to be a Christian leader, and a useful topic for this first Pastors Brief. The time Jesus spent with his disciples, the way he called them to follow him, his personal authority and prayerfulness, his sense of calling and purpose, his encouraging of followers to count the cost"”all these and more tell us volumes about Jesus as a leader, trainer, and manager of men and women.

Triumphalism is an attitude rarely found in the writing of Tim Winton. More often than not his stories are tales imbued with regret and tragedy. Frequently unremarkable, even ordinary, his characters are scarred and broken people whose misfortunes are achingly obvious. Not that Winton is dismissive of those about whom he writes. Quite the opposite, this Australian author is a master at finding consequence in the ordinary. In this regard The Turning is no different.

What constitutes a good argument? And what does a good argument have to do with the truth of Christianity? I am a logician by trade. I spend time teaching and researching in the areas of formal and philosophical logic. I think that logic has important connections with reasoning and rationality, and that reasoning and rationality in turn have something important to do with understanding, communicating and shaping our beliefs and the beliefs of those around us.