A Sydney Anglican has struck on a unique idea which utilises his passions for all things wheeled to raise much needed dollars for his housing commission centred parish.

The End of Faith by Sam Harris is a book written in the atheist tradition of Bertrand Russell. It is proof that a self-indulgent and stupid book can be written by a clever man. Harris argument is that religion is deeply irrational and that it is responsible for the age of terror in which we live.

Sydneys newest ministry school will be hanging up its shingle tomorrow, inviting citys workers to trade Thursday night at the shops for a theological education.

It takes training, persistence and months of organisation. Just like Tanzanian Patrick Nyangelo who won this year's City to Surf, the Rev Tom Henderson-Brook's seven year 'winning' streak at the event is no overnight success.

Most Wednesday afternoons Inaburra School visual arts teacher Genelle Griffin and teacher librarian Jenni Lochens have been racing 50 minutes from Menai to Minto in order to help a dozen Aboriginal kids with their homework.

I spent quite a bit of time tonight visiting church websites throughout the country to find a cool church to tell you about this week. Don't worry. I found one, and I'll tell you about it in a separate post. In the process, though, I found lots of uncool sites. With that in mind, I thought this list might be helpful. Now, at least, you'll know what it might take to become my cool church of the week.

Contemporary Western society suppresses the concepts of honour and shame, although they re-surface in its media in a theatre of the grotesque. Honour reinforces good behaviour through appeals to a shared morality, while shame penalises bad behaviour through disgrace and exposure. The Bible offers a different social vision, in which honour is respected through discretion, and where shame and disgrace can be dealt with through confession, reconciliation and restoration into the community.

Croydon Parks Lyn and Ian Thornell are 'fairly new Christians so they were a bit apprehensive about asking people to donate food for the needy "“ cars full of kindness was the last thing they expected.