A new punk rock outfit has been formed to connect with Sydneys teens. Qurious are the x-factor in Connect09s three-pronged youth strategy to connect with young Sydneysiders. It starts with peer evangelism, which then feeds into 'off the shelf video-based high school seminars. The hope is to create a 'buzz that by the end of the year will culminate in a series of live music events.

As a small parish on Botany Bay uses a new cross-cultural ministry to reach its ethnically diverse community, it is receiving a fresh boost as a rookie rector joins in 2009.

When mass violence broke out down the road from his church and police filled the streets, the Rev Dean Reilly says it was hard to know what to do.

Murder by Family is a fathers anguished story of his search to save his son, and his sons long journey from a secret and dark past towards a reconnection with God.

Authors tend to avoid reviewing other products for fear of mixed motives. But I cannot resist shouting from the roof tops about The Essential Jesus.

While advertisements on London buses say: 'Theres probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life, the carefree sentiment doesn't ring true in the day-to-day life.

King of Kings remains the bench-mark in many respects for large-scale retellings of the life of Jesus. It clearly demonstrates everything that can go right and wrong with visual reproduction of the Gospel story.

The archetypical blue-eyed Jesus played by Max Von Sydow, from whom so many Hollywood stereotypes emerge. In this dreary production Jesus is so different from those who surrounds him that he is almost alien, and his pronouncements so super-spiritual that they are almost of no earthly use.