If Stephanie Meyers first book about the love-life of a teenage would-be vampire is about the struggle of beginning an unlikely relationship, then the second is about the pain of losing it.

Prayers have been answered for organisers of this months Mens Convention at Katoomba with Simon Manchester confirmed as replacement for seriously ill speaker Mark Ashton.

This blog aims to start conversations about what it would take to reach our city for Jesus. How do our churches need to change? If you think being missional is a good idea, then how do you actually do it?

Connect09's long awaited "external" web-site is now up and running at a familiar address: connect09.com.

There is never enough time, we are all "time poor". So why on earth would I agree to write a weekly column for this website? After all, writing is so, so time-consuming.

This week, Glenn Davies and I begin a regular analysis of Anglican Communion issues from a Sydney Anglican perspective. I'm starting us off today with some comment on the meeting of the Primates of the Anglican Communion, which is happening this week in Alexandria, Egypt.

When a person speaks about his or her success in ministry, the response from others is often lukewarm. Perhaps it's a Christian version of the so-called 'Tall Poppy Syndrome', in which Aussies habitually cut down high achievers to the median level of mediocrity. But is this a Christian response?

Questions of identity are hot property within our society presently. How do we define ourselves? It is in this context that Michael Jensens book, You: an introduction, has been written.