As Figtree Anglicans conclude a 40-day community mission this weekend, one of its ministers is spearheading a campaign to get the church into the centre of their suburb.

Thirty nine believers from Dapto have travelled thousands of miles and combined their creative energies to reach a remote Western Australian town.

There are a growing number of filmmakers and actors for whom movie-making is becoming an ethical and a moral exercise. Some use their influence to support various causes, be it Susan Sarandons anti-war stance or Angelina Jolies role with the UN. But its the transmitting of social issues into the format of film that is most interesting. From the environment and global warming to corruption in the oil business, mainstream cinema is taking on some the most important issues facing modern civilisation.

Like other Chesalon Malabar families, John Cotterill was very disappointed when he heard that the Anglicare-run nursing home had to close because of the Government's new building standards.

Its hard these days to work out who are the ministers in a church. Gone are the days when the minister was the guy with the clerical collar. Its pretty obvious how we should train "ordained" and "full time" gospel workers. But how should we train "lay" and "voluntary" ministers?

Five years on, one Sydney Anglican recalls how he stood just fifty metres from the terror which engulfed New York City.

September 11 was all about the power of images, inlcuding a number of Christian images that have been associated with the tragedy since that fateful day five years ago. But it's an association that believers would do well to question writes Justine Toh.

Steve Irwin, Coline Thiele, Peter Brock - never before in my memory has Australia experienced such tragic national loss as happened in the first few days of Spring in 2006. Life is fragile, dangerous. But the antidote to fragility and danger is not cotton wool.