As matters stand with the Victorian legislation, introduced to promote religious harmony, we can say without fear of contradiction that the government has managed to set Muslim against Christian, Christian against Muslim, and even Christian against Christian. Is this what the government wants?

Sometimes the reason we might not be heard could be the offence of the gospel. Yet negativity and nit-picking arguments can also cause offence. Poor behaviour of Sydney Anglicans can result in lost votes.

Because we are part of a culture that does everything it can to make ourselves look good. Boastfulness is part of our culture, even amongst Christians. We boast in the size of our churches, the length of our prayers or the depth of our Bible knowledge. Our world despises weakness, and so we hide our weakness as best we can.

RICE, a name that has become synonymous with outreach to Sydneys second generation Chinese, is about to undergo a face-lift as it heads towards its fourth birthday.

St Johns, Ashfield is preparing to light up its suburb for its 165th birthday bash with plans to launch a new era in the life of the parish.

Sydney Anglican teenagers from the Northern Beaches who wanted to 'do something positive' for the citys homeless have combined a mid-winter sleep-out with a charity breakfast.

After The Da Vinci Code I have learnt not to trust books that begin by saying that "this is a true story." It is pretty much an admission by the author that what is contained within the covers of the work is, well, unbelievable. It has a plausibility problem. But the more bizarre elements of Jon Ronsons The Men Who Stare At Goats are anchored in a disturbing reality that we know to be the truth. The shocking images from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were too weird, too perfectly calculated to do psycho-sexual and cultural damage, to be merely a case of a couple of bored, barely literate prison guards having a lark.

Theology students left out in the cold by the natural limitations of parishes are hoping to find a new source of learning at St Andrews Cathedral.