It is sad that society needs to be encouraged to be social. It is sadder still that Christians need to be encouraged to be Christian...

This week I want to raise another way we might end up failing to make the most of Connect09: not allowing the campaign to lift our heads above our current congregational life.

New findings highlighting women's struggle to maintain a healthy work/life balance show churches cannot drop the ball on strengthening marriage and family life.

It's no surprise that a program like this one is a hit with audiences – Australians are great respecters of the successful con.

Mark Hadley looks at why teens and tweens love the vampires their parents learned to hate.

Thanks to the amazingly successful 'Twilight series, parents struggling with drug-proofing their children and teaching them about sex, now have to add coping with vampires to their list.

The Assault on Reason is former American Vice President Al Gores scathing and detailed analysis of the Bush Administration, providing a background to some of these challenges that Obama must now preside over.

The best-selling books are set to become a blockbuster film franchise, filling cinemas with vampires for the next three years.