Walter Rauschenbusch was the eighth in a line of pastors and he realised that in order to serve the spiritual needs of his poverty-stricken congregation, he would have to address their whole lives.

I am frankly sick of "leaders" ruining the atmosphere of the meeting/service and disrupting the focus on God with half-baked comic lines.

You know an issue has become a mainstream concern when Hollywood decides to make a movie about it. Male loneliness, it seems, is a big enough problem to provide a solid foundation for the comedy I love you man.

Shane Hipps says the Internet "creates a permanent puberty of the mind". The speed at which it delivers information limits our capacity to understand and hampers wisdom.

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

Christian sites would undoubtedly be caught by the Australian Christian Lobby's widescale dredge-net system. I can't believe they are being so stubborn on this point.

For the Bible writers, who knew that sin brings death, water is an obvious symbol of both cleansing and life. But water also symbolises judgement.

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