I think the best way to begin an article like this one is with some friendly advice: do NOT be afraid. Digital television may be the best technological development for Christians in a decade, and though it involves lots of cables, you can cope with its arrival.

Are we seeing a global, cut-price Christian publishing network being inadvertently birthed out of a former missionarys home in a sleepy South Coast town?

Michael Morrow is one of the more recent songwriters to join the EMU team. Lift Up Your Heads is his first solo album of congregational songs, produced in partnership with his wife, Julie.

As I write this, Im camped outside the main auditorium at KCC, my blue CMS Summer School bag slung at my feet with my notes from the Bible talks spilling out.

When I tell people Im headed to Summer School this January, they tend to look at me with a little confusion. I guess its understandable "“ I graduated from university back in July. Plus, they know me too well to think Id spend the sunny season cooped up in classes.

I am glad that the good old fashioned 'Giving your testimony kind of talk has died out. I became a believer back in the late 1950's! My question is, "Why are you still a Christian?"

I re-read the recommendations on the back of the book for the twentieth time, wondering whether I had read something quite different by accident...

Mission amongst Muslim peoples is one of five strategic areas of ministry that CMS Australia is emphasising in Vision 2012. This Vision outlines the blueprint for how CMS will do mission over the next five years. As thousands gather for CMS Summer School in Katoomba this week, CMS Federal Secretary John Thew is highlighting the importance of mission in Muslim areas and hoping to see CMS have at least 65 workers in the Muslim world by 2012 "“ an increase of 50 within the next four years.