Last week, I copped a bit of flak for being 'too negative' about Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Global. However I think we too easily under-estimate the force of really simple, small ideas.

Jane Austen has proved an unexpected drawcard theme at St Andrews Cathedrals womens high tea, which led non-Christian guests to invite their friends.

With the economy in survival mode, business is in no mood to spend money on tricky new policy initiatives such as the Federal Govt's carbon emissions trading scheme.

Sexting', where a person takes a sexually-explicit digital photograph of him or herself, and distributes it via their mobile phone has serious ongoing consequences...

A double header - Black Saturday and The Red Tree - can you pick the connection?

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

Fear sells newspapers. Editors have a vested interest in talking up bad news. But do we have the opposite problem in regards to the financial challenges confronting the Diocese?

Over the years, I have encountered this view: 'It's OK to set up a culturally distinctive ministry for evangelistic purposes, but once they become Christians, they should assimilate into the local church (ie become like 'us').'