Every decade seems produces one vintage year for Australian cinema. In 2009 local film-buffs will be cellaring a bumper crop. Add actor-director Matt Newton's debut Three Blind Mice to this list.

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

In a significant legal judgment in the Supreme Court in Perth (Australia) a 49-year old man, Christian Rossiter, has been granted the right to starve himself to death.

This week has revealed the sad and pathetic story of another political figure forced to resign because of a scandal in his personal life. It is a story without winners – apart from media ratings.

Desolate Beauty, Trudy Adams novel for mid to late teens, explores the fact that the mistakes we make, or the mistakes of others that impact our lives, do not have to control our future.

On two recent Moore College Missions people told me they thought that the church was closed. The vibrant church life was invisible.

An article in the Sunday papers describes how Laura Munson reacted when her husband of some 20 years announced that he no longer loved her and was moving out. Standing in a calm place, she told him that she didn't 'buy it'.

Three Christian leaders at the forefront of church planting in Australia have announced the formation of the countrys first national church planting network.