After several years in ministry I have come to recognise that conflict is positive, not negative.

What is the appeal of forecast books? Future Shock, Next...Is it to receive some hope of future comfort from the chaos happening now? Does it increase the sense of control? Does it give us the illusion that we have heard all the bad news, so we feel more prepared?

"If you don't go to church to worship I don't know what we go for"

You can make anything the 'New Black' if you can find a few people to nod while you say it.

What is it that makes a house feel like a home? The times you have spent there? The people who share it? The careless scattering of underwear on furniture? The television series Grand Designs suggests that in part it is the architecture that speaks to your soul.

Every decade seems produces one vintage year for Australian cinema. In 2009 local film-buffs will be cellaring a bumper crop. Add actor-director Matt Newton's debut Three Blind Mice to this list.

Join Archbishop Peter Jensen in a weekly online Bible Study series on The Essential Jesus (the gospel of Luke).

In a significant legal judgment in the Supreme Court in Perth (Australia) a 49-year old man, Christian Rossiter, has been granted the right to starve himself to death.