Britains Chuck Colson, former Tory MP Jonathan Aitken, has called for Sydney Anglicans to do more to support the Prison Fellowship "“ a ministry that transformed his own life.

Originally a respected British MP of impeccable Eton and Oxford background, a cabinet minister in the Tory government that preceded Tony Blairs Labour ascendancy, Jonathan Aitken fell from grace to become a notorious, vilified figure. He had been an Anglican churchgoer, but at this time he embarked on a spiritual quest through which he came to know and follow Jesus Christ deeply and personally.

Kim Hawtrey's popular gospel tract, 'Christianity: a pocket guide' has been faithfully translated into Arabic, and printed in a similar format to the English version.

Etsuko Stanhope heads a team of web developers with a heart for reaching Mormons for Christ. She describes her passion for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and how it coalesced into the production of an Internet site that gently challenges while offering a significant insight into this world-wide cult.

As Sydney basks in the late winter sunshine, farmer John Walker stands in one of his drought-ravaged paddocks, the parched soil a stark reminder that the prolonged dry continues to ravage most of the state.

Church musicians should not view their music ministry as more important than other types of service, Dubbo Presbyterian minister Bryson Smith warns the annual TWIST conference.

Readers and critics alike praise his work, but John Dickson still feels like a bit of a fraud.

The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers is a slender volume, more an elegy or a poem than a novel. It captures the essence of a soldiers life in and around the battlefield, not on it, and does this well. It captures the mundanity and profanity of everyday soldier life, leavened with the deeper thinking that only a soldiers sense of imminent mortality can bring. And yet, there is very little plot, only the remembrances of a former soldier, Frederick Benteen, composing correspondence.