The other day I was at a cafe with a mate when a woman walked in, sat down at a nearby table, and began crying. Not just crying a little bit either, but crying really hard. I wondered what I should do?

I live in a wealthy parish of a wealthy diocese. How do we care for the poor, the widows and the oppressed?

Matthew Carson-Drever, 22, from Springwood Baptist Church has taken home the Gold Sparky award for best film for Enmity at the 2009 Ignite Film Festival.

After several years in ministry I have come to recognise that conflict is positive, not negative.

What is the appeal of forecast books? Future Shock, Next...Is it to receive some hope of future comfort from the chaos happening now? Does it increase the sense of control? Does it give us the illusion that we have heard all the bad news, so we feel more prepared?

"If you don't go to church to worship I don't know what we go for"

You can make anything the 'New Black' if you can find a few people to nod while you say it.

What is it that makes a house feel like a home? The times you have spent there? The people who share it? The careless scattering of underwear on furniture? The television series Grand Designs suggests that in part it is the architecture that speaks to your soul.