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Anglicans Together is an organisation of Anglicans in the Diocese of Sydney which values an inclusive and diverse expression of Anglicanism. We publish a newsletter several times a year, and welcome new members (application form) and feedback on the site.

The Anglicans Together Annual Dinner will be held on Friday 30th August 2013. The Guest Speaker will be Canon David Richardson, who until recently was the Archbishop of Canterbury's Envoy to the Vatican in Rome. Previously he was the Dean of St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.

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The Reverend Adrew Sempell, the Rector of St James' Anglican Chuch, Sydney, has published a reply to Archbishop Peter Jensen's pastoral letter to parishioners of the Diocese in june, concerning the topic "redefining marriage". You can read it in our Journal section.

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"Lift Up Your Hearts; Peace-Making in an Anglican Voice" - The Address given by Dr Heather Thomson at the Anglicans Together Dinner - 16 September 2011. Click here to read.

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The Reverend Clive Norton, on 17th July, 2011 preached a sermon titled "Weeds & Seeds Growing Together" at St Peter's Anglican Church, Cremorne, NSW. Click here to read.

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Dr Gail Ball presented Papers for the St James Institute, Sydney on the subject of "Women in Christian History". Click here to read.

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"ON FORGIVING THE UNFORGIVEABLE"
A sermon preached by Professor Michael Horsburgh in St Lukes Church, Enmore, on the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost - 11 September 2011 - Click here.

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Dr Kevin Giles presented a Paper to a Conference held in Melbourne in 2010 organised by the "Hierarchical Complementarians". Click here for the Paper titled "Kevin Giles replies to the Melbourne Hierarchcal-Complimentarians.

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In early 1994, at the invitation of Anglicans Together, Dr.Kevin Giles gave a paper, titled The Prevailing Doctorine of the Church in the Diocese of Sydney: A Case Study in Spotlight Theology. This paper has not been published before, but it is still very relevant today.

Address given by the Reverend Dr Michael Spence, Vice Chancellor and Principal, The University of Sydney, to the Anglicans Together Dinner, Sydney, 15th October 2010

Public Lecture by the Rev'd Dr Graham Cole, Formerly Principal of Ridley College, Melbourne and currently Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill. USA. Trinity Without Tiers [MP3 23MB]

Address to the Anglicans Together Dinner, Sydney
Sydney, 20 November 2009
Sydney and Melbourne Anglicans from 1836 to 2009: Historical and personal reflections
Bishop Barbara Darling, Diocese of Melbourne. click here. [PDF 36KB]

Address given by the Primate, the Most Reverend Phillip Aspinall to a Public Meeting in Sydney (Christ Church St Laurence Hall) on Tuesday 15th September, 2009. click here. [PDF 42KB]

Sydney Anglicans and the GFC
To read the Archbishop of Sydney's letter, June 4, click here. [PDF 786KB]

Also see Anglicans Together Newsletter July 2009 edition pp. 1-2 click here [PDF 365Kb]

A talk presented to the NSW Ecumenical Council (to which the Anglican Church belongs) at the Melkite Catholic Centre, Greenacre on Monday 25 May 2009 by Sr Dr Patricia Madigan, a Dominican nun.
Dr Madigan was awarded a PhD from Sydney University in 2008 for work on similarities and differences in the experiences of Roman Catholic and Muslim women in Australia in relation to their faith...click here. [PDF 39Kb]

For the Reverend Dr Bruce Kaye's Address "What does the Lambeth Conference mean for the future of the Anglican Communion and the Diocese of Sydney?" delivered at the 2008 Anglicans Together Dinner click here. [PDF 25Kb]

For the speech given at the 2006 Anglicans Together Dinner by Jane Shaw, click here [PDF 120 Kb]

For the text of Stuart Piggin's address at the launch of Kevin Giles' newly released book "The Father and the Son: modern evangelicals reinvent the doctrine of the Trinity" click here [PDF 171 Kb]

For Dr Andrew McGowan's speech at the 2005 Anglicans Together Annual Dinner, click here

Michael Deasey's farewell speech as outgoing Director of Music at St Andrews Cathedral can be found here...click here [PDF 62 Kb].

An earlier speech by Michael Deasey to a meeting of ex-choristers can be read...click here [PDF 95Kb]. In this speech, Michael gives some insight into the ways in which the views on worship of the current Dean of the Cathedral have changed cathedral liturgical practice.

Anglicans Together Online has been established by Anglicans Together to provide a forum for the discussion of issues relevant to the Anglican Communion in general and the Diocese of Sydney in particular. The Diocese of Sydney occupies a major position in the Australian Anglican Church and in the Communion. Its strong, and often idiosyncratic, evangelicalism is forcefully expressed and supported by the academic work of Moore Theological College, where its clergy are trained. Debate within the diocese is constrained by political pressures arising from the perceived need to protect its position against attack from more ‘liberal’ tendencies. For these reasons it is important that debate about issues arising from the diocese is located within the diocese itself.