The novels of Robert Drewe are peopled by men and women ill at ease with their environs. His characters are often searching for or escaping from something. But Drewe is rarely content to focus solely on the individual; grander themes of social responsibility and morality are usually at work behind the human drama. His novel Grace is no exception. Ostensibly a thriller "“ a woman on the run from a stalker "“ the surface narrative is imbued with reflections on the way our society treats refugees.

Wow is the word that describes the way Megan Sakoua feels about meeting with the Women on Wednesdays (WOW) Bible study group at St Johns, Sylvania.

Lately, in my bioethical reading, I have been struck by how often people mention Aldous Huxleys 1932 novel, entitled "Brave New World" (2). I remembered it from childhood as a science fiction work predicting a world of assisted reproduction and eugenics. On re-reading the book recently, I was struck by something else. Huxley describes a technological world that many people would consider to be paradise. No sense of oppression here: citizens of the World State have everything they would ever want. Life is ordered and comfortable, with disease, aggression, envy, suffering and guilt having been eradicated from society. But also eliminated are democracy, family, art and self-awareness.

A new five-part discussion guide from the Bible Society provides a useful way of turning the current interest in CS Lewis' Narnia chronicles into an investigation of what this acclaimed writer and Scripture have to say about God and His world.

Six couples trying to start a new church in a hard to reach part of Sydney have transformed into a committed group of almost 70 believers just 24 months later.

Lillian and Mike are two of the record number of first year students at Moore College this year and they plan to take the gospel to one of the most difficult mission fields in the world.

Locum minister the Rev Geoff Glassock is getting ready to hand over the care for Darlinghurst's needy community to a new rector winging his way out from Europe.

High profile Christians including the Treasurer Peter Costello, Labors Foreign Affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd, and Bruce Baird, former President of the Australian Parliamentary Christian Fellowship, played a role in the success of the RU486 Bill yesterday.