Connect09 has officially been launched, after yesterdays Big Day In, which saw 200 Sydney Anglican churches join together in the first ever TV link-up across the Sydney Diocese. Hosting church Kellyville Anglican was abuzz as film crews and special guests made for a very different Sunday morning experience. Sydneyanglicans.net brings you our behind-the-scenes coverage of Big Day In at Kellyville, and reveals how the event has given several Sydney Anglican churches a technology boost.

Landscape of Farewell was an interesting experience for me. It was a journey into the inner world of men. It treated subjects that, as a woman, I am familiar with: friendship, finding meaning and reconciliation. Yet it was all from the perspective of males.

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

The Sydney year starts in February. The long summer holidays are over with. Christmas is but a memory. The work starts in earnest and so we commence the Cathedral programme.

Bus advertisements by evangelistically-minded atheists are urging people to wake up and enjoy the godless life, but I often get the opposite response when people discover that I have a faith. "Im jealous of your beliefs "I wish I could be certain like you."

Demographers are using a new documentary to predict an international crisis of such proportions that they believe will put global warming in the shade.

One ABC TV pundit called last Tuesday 'the greatest day in Australia's macro-economic history'. Given that even the forgotten depression of the 1890s gave us the shearers' strikes, Waltzing Matilda and the Australian Labor Party, this is an absurd over-statement, writes Jeremy Halcrow.

We were talking about the terrible case of the little girl thrown over the Westgate Bridge in Melbourne the week before. It is something that particularly and deeply horrified us.