Twelve young people have followed a Sydney Anglican church leader back to his first parish in North West Australia.

In the last 10 years or so, my wife Wendy and I, with nearly 40 years involvement in Christian music, have noticed that, more and more young and not so young players have disappeared from the music teams. Their discouragement may have a common cause.

A party doesnt automatically own our vote because it calls itself Christian.

John Sandeman explains why plain vanilla is the best flavour for church.

Historically, evangelicals have been better at using singing to engage directly with Jesus and to respond to what he has done "“ but still tend to envelop it in worship language.

New church plants struggle to deliver the popular soft-rock genre of Christian music. So can we better resource smaller congregations to have an effective music program? How do we recruit and develop more musicians? Jodie McNeill argues that we need a 'smaller music to match smaller congregations. Graham Toulmin says the answer is writing music in easy keys and providing charts all musicians can play. Both men will be involved in our featured discussion forum this week.

Would you wear a T-shirt or put a bumper sticker on your car that said "I love my church?" My guess is that if you are a typical Sydney Anglican then even if you had the courage to wear this slogan, you still may not believe it.

The Easter for Kids resource book is packed with ideas to make Easter a memorable and Christ-centred experience for kids. It contains a variety of teaching material including scripts, songs and activity sheets.