Sydney-based Youth ministry The RICE Movement is growing from strength to strength and last Saturday’s RICEfest was no exception.

Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church, Seattle, has arrived in Australia for a range of speaking engagements. Sydneyanglicans.net spoke to the hippest hero for today's young evangelicals and found a man ‘grieved’ that the ipod generation might idolise him instead of Jesus. Watch the video interview.

As the World Vision 40 Hour Famine begins today, one 80-year-old will be seeking to top her fundraising effort from last year.

Jenna Allen’s goal in life was to own her own home before she turned 22. She also planned to be well on her way to a high-flying legal career. Her own life expectations were starting to become overwhelming. But the pressure to meet that expectation evaporated once she was given God’s word.

News reports out of Beijing in the lead-up to the Olympics have revealed a government crackdown on Christians with arrests, raids on house churches and an internet surveillance campaign. Yet the Olympics have also provided the opportunity for government-authorised gospel handouts as the Games begin. Against this backdrop, sydneyanglicans.net spoke to Chinese Christian journalist Promise Hsu about his hope that the spread of the gospel will bring freedom to his homeland.

Seven university students have chosen to spend a week’s worth of holidays assisting an inner-city church in its ministry to the poor, the suffering and the forgotten.

A Sydney Anglican has been appointed the new General Secretary of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia.

Dr Greg Clarke is calling on tertiary students to enrol with MCSI this week as the Christian education body seeks to overcome its second hurdle in as many months.

Despite the popularity and success of HSC study camps, over 140 students have been turned away this winter.

Anglicare’s Family Relationship Centre in Parramatta is one of 24 around the country to open its doors this week.

Bills currently before the Senate could see de facto couples given the same rights as married couples in areas including protection from being forced to give evidence against a spouse in criminal court proceedings, claims on financial and other assets, and spouse benefits from Commonwealth superannuation and pension schemes.

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to direct the November censorship meeting of the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General to “close the artistic merit loopholes” in the National Classification Scheme which “circumvent community standards”, and consider taking wider action to “protect children against exploitation by the art world”.

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Why Lambeth is like a Hollywood set...and Peter Jensen is our Ronald Reagan.

Journalistic ambition, ignorance and a conflict paradigm led to some woeful early reports of GAFCON. So the success of the conference shocked the naysayers, writes Russell Powell.

There’s nothing like raising boys to make you reflect on your own childhood. As you seek to help them fill their leisure hours, you reflect on those activities you used to engage in.

Willow Creek is abandoning its famous seeker services after nearly 30 years of running weekend services tailored explicitly to the unbeliever. The tension between relevance and integrity very much lies with us here in Sydney.

We must share a hope that is free from falsity and cynicism, a hope that can only come from the gospel.

The power of advertising is its ability to provide convincing arguments for products we may not think we need – a skill Christians could do well to learn.

This might a Batman sequel but the Joker steals the show.