Last year while Christmas shopping I frequently found myself in bookshops or in the book sections of various stores and wherever I went I saw the same book, with the same smiling face on the cover.

The absence of certainty in life is explored with subtle intelligence and complexity by Director John Patrick Shanley in the screen adaptation of his successful Broadway play Doubt.

In an unusual move, Wendy and Graham Toulmin have been jointly awarded the Member of the Order of Australia, for over 20 years of service to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

After a year of information about Connect09, people now get it. What we need in 2009 are the resources to help people do it - beginning with a weekly Bible study connecting us with the Essential Jesus.

Australia Day is a celebration of the diversity we all share in this big, brown land. As Christians seek to reach numerous nationalities and language groups with the gospel, Sydney Anglicans are launching an innovative video-based website for Connect09 to assist this work. Journalist and Sydney Anglican minister Geoff Robson discovers that many people have already met God in the anonymity of cyberspace.

There are real opportunity costs involved in being truly Christian. Many issues can bite deep into our lives. The question is will I pay the price?

Most of us, at some time, find ourselves in a conversation about whether children and young people have particular rights. Some people become quite emotional about the connection between the rights of children and the rights of their parents.

When Ms Pewsitter gets asked, 'I see you up at church all the time doing stuff. When on earth do you do your housework?'. She answers, 'I don't'. They always think she is joking. But she is not.