Church plant of the month: With ABS statistics showing Glenmore Park to have one of the highest rates of children per household in Australia, and the 7pm service growing so much that parishioners were sitting in the back hall area, the ministry team at Glenmore Park Anglican Church knew another service was needed.

New statistics show more young people go to a Sydney Anglican Church than in any other Australian diocese.

Forty years after Martin Luther King jr delivered his most famous speech, his words continue to resonate. One of the landmark speeches of the 20th century, “I Have a Dream” bears witness to the power of language and the significance of words.

A new book sheds light on the miraculous escape of aid workers captured by the infamous regime.

In Stirrings of the Soul, Michael Raiter demonstrates that much of our society's interest in spirituality is not the beginning of a renewed, genuine search for the truth, but is in fact simply the latest manifestation of the rejection of God.

This is a worthwhile book, though it is guaranteed that no reader can agree with all that they read in it!

Les Murray is arguably Australia's best-regarded poet, both in Australia and internationally. The collecting of forty years of his work in a single volume shows just how impressive his achievement is. His unique accent – which he says is part of the soil up Bunyah way – and his extraordinary, prodigious gift of language combine in poetry that is at once chatty-colloquial and demanding.