We can be very glad that this society does not support abandoning people with disabilities to street begging, or killing off the elderly and frail, or allowing the very ill to expire alone in some corner. But the problem with this fine sentiment is what we fail to see. In some ways our society does allow these practices to occur, and when they dont occur it is precisely because there are carers who care.

Pastor Mark Driscoll has just had three weeks holiday with his family in Sydney, and he's ready to spend another two weeks speaking to a city of extremes.

Anglican churches around Sydney are following up new contacts after an intense week of Start the Ultimate Relationship mission.

Sydney-based Youth ministry The RICE Movement is growing from strength to strength and last Saturdays RICEfest was no exception.

Readers of sydneyanglicans.net have a special opportunity to ask questions of American preacher Mark Driscoll in the next 24 hours.

We are being inundated with a glut of Christian conferences and conventions.

Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church, Seattle, has arrived in Australia for a range of speaking engagements. Sydneyanglicans.net spoke to the hippest hero for today's young evangelicals and found a man 'grieved that the ipod generation might idolise him instead of Jesus. Watch the video interview.

Read an extract from a talk Mark Driscoll gave in Edinburgh, Scotland in November last year which caused some controversy.