The main purpose of this briefing is to bring to your attention a new Private Members Bill, which may result in a more just and compassionate treatment of each immigration detainee. The briefing will also summarise some other recent news in relation to immigration detention.

A beachside Sydney parish is receiving an injection of new life thats one part Asian and one part academic.

St Marks, Picton may not have all the creature comforts but believers are thirsty for growth.

Many people dont bother with locks. Recently I spoke to a friend who, with his wife was travelling next day to Indonesia on behalf of a missionary society. When I said, "Lock your case," he answered, "I wont bother, I never do." That is the confidence of someone who has made the same trip many times before, as well as perhaps a certainty that no one will find anything to steal in the average clergymans suitcase.

Finding a church near you is now no harder than using your mouse, thanks to the advent of a new 'Church Search tool released by the National Church Life Survey.

Sydney may be in danger of forgetting the victims of Boxing Days tsunami, but not so staff and parents at Tara Anglican School where students' Christian commitment is driving them to get creative for a good cause.

The young clergyman [I can't believe I just wrote that...am I really so aged?] looked puzzled when I asked him if he had an up-to-date 'cradle roll'. I've done a bit of research (you know, asked around the office...real indepth stuff) and it seems that the term is unknown to 'post-boomer' generations.

For single mother, Joanne Mauceri, winter is particularly tough. "Some weeks it gets to the stage where you have to choose between paying the bills and stocking the cupboard," Joanne says.