Most writers will tell you that what motivates them to write is an unquenchable drive from within. Its a bit like an obsession, but a healthy one.

Garage Hymnal are currently the classiest act on the local evangelical music scene. Their new album, the self-titled Garage Hymnal, is simply sensational.

I think Sydneysiders are like the people of Nazareth who think it is impossible for anything good to come out of our hometown, and so we look overseas.

Today the Rev Antony Barraclough will have to tell locals that All Saints Petershams church planting venture has been a 'disaster.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - an insistence on corporal punishment or simply an call for appropriate discipline?

As an experiment I set up a Twitter account for my church, to send updates to whoever is interested.

"I used to be a brain surgeon, but I quit that to enter full-time ministry. It's so great I'm not wasting my life anymore..." Ever heard something like that? I have, usually from the mouth of a ministry trainee.

It has been suggested that Sydney Anglicans show little interest in matters affecting the Anglican Communion in North America, because it is so far removed from us. This should not be so.