When U2 visit Australian shores next month, Sydney theologian Dr Greg Clarke says you too can use the Irish rockers as a platform to generate gospel conversations.

With Jerusalem as their base, our intrepid students venture to the lowest point on earth, followed by an ascent to a mountain-top fortress - all the way dodging the sharpest Bedouin souvenir salesmen...

It might be the Year of the Dog but Chinese congregations across Sydney are hoping to make God 'mans best friend' as they use Chinese New Year events to reach non-Christians.

The MTC crew have left Galilee behind and are heading for the desert with their sights set on Qumran, home of the Dead Sea Scrolls...

Medical ethicist Dr Megan Best says RU486 is a 'totally unsafe drug' and much of the media reporting around the current Senate debate on its availability has been 'very misleading'.

A young Sydney Anglican is giving up her comfort and security to work in one of the most desperate places on earth.

In essence, McCarthy writes to explore the human condition, and it is on this exploration that all his works turn. From Blood Meridian, through to the Border Trilogy, including his most recognised novel, All The Pretty Horses, McCarthys works are close to being unremittingly bleak. McCarthy writes of a world that is real for very many people, of a badlands existence where life is palpable but the human grasp on it is tenuous.

Kerri Newton has Ireland in her blood, and she cant wait to get there.