Ian Thuaux will be celebrating his 19th birthday in unusual circumstances for a Sydney teenager, following a sincere desire to do short-term mission to the other side of the world.

James Morrison is regarded as Australias best known jazz musician. Besides the trumpet, the multi-instrumentalist plays trombone, euphonium, flugel horn, tuba, saxophones, and piano. Morrison tells Joseph Smith that his introduction to the genre was through what he calls 'gospel jazz...

Legendary evangelist Billy Graham has just completed what is likely to be his last evangelistic crusade "“ but the echo of his voice is still being heard down under.

An internationally renowned Oxford don has defended his theory that the resurrection of Jesus is 97 per cent likely before a critical university audience.

In the first part of this essay (in Briefing #316), Tim Chester looked at the strong case that can be made for Christian social involvement, as well as the strong case for proclamation of the gospel being central. We now come to the question that has bedevilled evangelicals discussion of this subject for the past 30 years: What ought to be the relationship between social involvement and evangelism in Christian ministry and mission?

The Big Brother season has begun. The human zoo is open for inspection, and the usual bunch of annoying but oddly fascinating wannabes are about to become as familiar to us as the people we live with. Our celebrity obsession reveals what we really think it means to be human, says MICHAEL JENSEN

The ordeal of freed Australian hostage Douglas Wood mirrors the imprisonment of the apostle Paul, says Archdeacon Narelle Jarrett, and Christians need to learn his secret for dealing with suffering.

Ministry needs ministers"¦ and youth ministry is no exception. The desperate need for more youth ministers means parishes should recruit within their own church.