The gap between the church and the classroom seems bigger each day. Thousands of teenagers go through life with little or no contact with church-based youth ministries.

Some people say Christians shouldnt get depression. Some people say that Christians should just snap out of it, or just have more faith. Theres nothing less helpful. I was inspired to write this after talking on one of the forums about unemployment and the debilitating effects of being without a job.

Christian university students have joined 4000 other demonstrators protesting government plans to introduce voluntary student unionism (VSU) warning university ministries are under threat.

Whats better than one urban mission? Four, of course! This is the answer that the nine churches in the Salt Pan Creek Area Deanery in Sydneys South-West have come to.

Sydney teenager Ruth Monsted says shes found that elusive 'x-factor in Jesus, thanks to the efforts of her Eastwood youth group and this years KYCKSTART conference.

Socrates was famously executed in Athens for "corrupting the youth" of the city. In 1989, when I was in my first year of Arts at Sydney University I was ripe for corruption. So I signed up for Philosophy 1.

"Consuming Fire" was the theme of the Soul Survivor Youth Festival held at St Ives Showground which saw 500 hearts set burning to serve.

This ANZAC Day, Australians will remember those who fell at Gallipoli 90 years ago and the ultimate sacrifice they made for their nation. Yet a Chaplain to War Veterans has called for the government and the nation to remember the often forgotten soldiers who served in the Vietnam War.