Last week, Wollongong Bishop Al Stewart, Central Coast Evangelical Church's Andrew Heard and Steve Chong, lead pastor at Kirkplace and director of RICE, cast a bold vision to launch a new national network as they gathered potential church planters to think through how to make 'talk' of church planting 'action'.

I do not envy the Prime Minister one bit. As a public, committed Christian he was required to preach a 'sermon' at a 'service' that invited along everyone but God.

Hoxton Parks new multipurpose building opened yesterday, but has already brought over 20 people to church after more than a year in construction.

In the past 30 years we have seen our churches move rapidly away from formal liturgy. More and more congregations are devising 'do-it-yourself' church services. Everything seems up for grabs.

It is a magnificent achievement for a first-time author to be short-listed for the Man-Booker Prize ... but I don't like this book.

If only Qantas executives knew the Christian scene in Sydney better: they might have invented their two-brand (Jetstar and Qantas) strategy a long time ago.

Join Archbishop Peter Jensen in a weekly online Bible Study series on The Essential Jesus (the gospel of Luke).

In this months Southern Cross, David Peterson suggests that churches have drifted away from praising God in their gatherings. He says that rather than keeping worship as a specific part of their gatherings, Christians have taken it out of their time together. How important is worship to our church meetings? And what role does/should it play? Jessica Matthews digs a little deeper into these questions.