The White Tiger was recently voted winner of the prestigious 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. As such it is guaranteed literary immortality and a vastly increased worldwide readership.

The prospect of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio staring in another film together was always going to invite comparisons with Titanic. I wonder whether Sam Mendes' new production might have been accurately subtitled Titanic II – the end of the affair.

"I hope my parents die before I do!" Startling words from someone who did not want their mum and dad to find out what they had done much earlier in life. Others, no doubt, feel the same way concerning their parents, or spouses, or their children.

The Rev Stephen Shearsby has begun his first day in the position of new director of Sydney Anglican childrens ministry organisation, Kidzlink.

A new punk rock outfit has been formed to connect with Sydneys teens. Qurious are the x-factor in Connect09s three-pronged youth strategy to connect with young Sydneysiders. It starts with peer evangelism, which then feeds into 'off the shelf video-based high school seminars. The hope is to create a 'buzz that by the end of the year will culminate in a series of live music events.

As a small parish on Botany Bay uses a new cross-cultural ministry to reach its ethnically diverse community, it is receiving a fresh boost as a rookie rector joins in 2009.

When mass violence broke out down the road from his church and police filled the streets, the Rev Dean Reilly says it was hard to know what to do.

Murder by Family is a fathers anguished story of his search to save his son, and his sons long journey from a secret and dark past towards a reconnection with God.