Christmas hasnt always been a time of joy for Matt and Nicole. But this Christmas represents a genuine fresh start for the family from Campbelltown.

You just know Colin Buchanan is involved when the Archbishop of Sydney puts on a blond wig and throws a plastic crocodile into the audience.

Just how much influence did the voting choices of committed evangelical Christian and Roman Catholic voters have upon the final results in the recent Australian and US elections?

When I was asked some time ago to present this years Parliamentary Reflection on personal faith and public life I must admit, in the great tradition of St Thomas, to having great doubts about doing so.

One man's face has come to symbolise Jesus' love to hundreds struggling in Surry Hills.

Ever since David Hume proclaimed that "no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion", the subject of miraculous events has been of fascination to philosophers.

Those zany Christians in Forestville are at in again, evangelising motorists through their 24-hour drive-thru church.

Among the dusty mining towns and pearl divers of Australias far-flung North West coastline, there is a bishop waiting for the phone to ring.