I spent quite a bit of time tonight visiting church websites throughout the country to find a cool church to tell you about this week. Don't worry. I found one, and I'll tell you about it in a separate post. In the process, though, I found lots of uncool sites. With that in mind, I thought this list might be helpful. Now, at least, you'll know what it might take to become my cool church of the week.

Contemporary Western society suppresses the concepts of honour and shame, although they re-surface in its media in a theatre of the grotesque. Honour reinforces good behaviour through appeals to a shared morality, while shame penalises bad behaviour through disgrace and exposure. The Bible offers a different social vision, in which honour is respected through discretion, and where shame and disgrace can be dealt with through confession, reconciliation and restoration into the community.

Croydon Parks Lyn and Ian Thornell are 'fairly new Christians so they were a bit apprehensive about asking people to donate food for the needy "“ cars full of kindness was the last thing they expected.

Britains Chuck Colson, former Tory MP Jonathan Aitken, has called for Sydney Anglicans to do more to support the Prison Fellowship "“ a ministry that transformed his own life.

Originally a respected British MP of impeccable Eton and Oxford background, a cabinet minister in the Tory government that preceded Tony Blairs Labour ascendancy, Jonathan Aitken fell from grace to become a notorious, vilified figure. He had been an Anglican churchgoer, but at this time he embarked on a spiritual quest through which he came to know and follow Jesus Christ deeply and personally.

Kim Hawtrey's popular gospel tract, 'Christianity: a pocket guide' has been faithfully translated into Arabic, and printed in a similar format to the English version.

Etsuko Stanhope heads a team of web developers with a heart for reaching Mormons for Christ. She describes her passion for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and how it coalesced into the production of an Internet site that gently challenges while offering a significant insight into this world-wide cult.

As Sydney basks in the late winter sunshine, farmer John Walker stands in one of his drought-ravaged paddocks, the parched soil a stark reminder that the prolonged dry continues to ravage most of the state.