One ABC TV pundit called last Tuesday 'the greatest day in Australia's macro-economic history'. Given that even the forgotten depression of the 1890s gave us the shearers' strikes, Waltzing Matilda and the Australian Labor Party, this is an absurd over-statement, writes Jeremy Halcrow.

We were talking about the terrible case of the little girl thrown over the Westgate Bridge in Melbourne the week before. It is something that particularly and deeply horrified us.

The Year of Magical Thinking is an intensely personal account of the pain of loss, by the celebrated journalist Joan Didion.

When a nearby car accident drew everyone out of their houses, an ordinary mum had a great insight on how to 'Pray. Expect. Connect.' with her neighbours – typically average middle-class families and retirees.

If Stephanie Meyers first book about the love-life of a teenage would-be vampire is about the struggle of beginning an unlikely relationship, then the second is about the pain of losing it.

Prayers have been answered for organisers of this months Mens Convention at Katoomba with Simon Manchester confirmed as replacement for seriously ill speaker Mark Ashton.

This blog aims to start conversations about what it would take to reach our city for Jesus. How do our churches need to change? If you think being missional is a good idea, then how do you actually do it?

Connect09's long awaited "external" web-site is now up and running at a familiar address: connect09.com.