X-Men: The Last Stand Starring Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry20th Century Fox recent releaseRated M X-Men: The Last Stand is the third and apparently final in the X men movies. Most of the main characters from the previous two movies return (including Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry and Australia’s own Hugh Jackman as the ever popular “Wolverine”) with some new ...

President of the National Council of Churches in Australia and former Uniting Church President Reverend Professor James Haire was today appointed as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia for service to religion and to the community through the promotion of ecumenical and interfaith dialogue, the Uniting Church in Australia and theological education. National Chair, Uniting International Mission and ...

Pete Rollins is travelling all the way from Northern Ireland to be a one of four Keynote Speakers appearing at the National Christian Youth Convention in January 2007. Delegates, volunteers and participants will have the opportunity to engage with Pete as he speaks at the programmed evening rallies, bible study features and highlighted electives throughout the convention week. On his ...

ACCORDING TO Time Magazine, Dan Brown is one of the 100 most influential people of all time. His novel, The Da Vinci Code, has sold 40 million copies and the BBC claims it is the best selling novel ever and none less than Tom Hanks will star in the Ron Howard film version being released worldwide on May 19, 2006. ...

Ten years on, the terrible events of Sunday, April 28 1996, when a lone gunman killed 35 people at Port Arthur, Tasmania still numb the feelings of many Australians. At the time waves of disbelief and grief washed over the peaceful and tranquil holiday isle of Tasmania. Dr Christine Gapes former faculty member of United Theological College, Australian Catholic University, ...

A REPORT proposing major changes in non-ordained specified ministries will be one of the big items on the agenda for the 11th Assembly when it meets in Brisbane in July. The report from the Specified Ministries Task Group appointed after the 2003 Assembly is titled From time to time, and place to place, a phrase from Paragraph 14 of the ...

The Aussie Bible (Well, bits of it anyway) Re-told and presented by Kel Richards DVD Divine Entertainment RRP $25.95 A few years ago I took a youth group on a chalk chase where we nearly got into a street fight with some older boys who were wandering the streets. That night it so happened that devotions were on some of ...

The world’s first person in space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, publicly advocated rebuilding Moscow’s destroyed Christ the Saviour basilica despite being depicted as a committed atheist by the Soviet regime, a former friend has revealed. "Like every Russian, Gagarin was baptised – and, as far as I know, he was a believer," said Colonel Valentin Petrov, an associate professor at ...

The National Christian Youth Convention (NCYC) 2007 will be in Perth, Western Australia, 3 – 9 January 2007. The theme is Agents of Change and registration is open to all young people between the ages of 16 and 30 as of 3 January 2007. It is about transformation – inner and outer. What are the agents that change us, and ...

Fourteen thousand eager individuals wait for the band to begin playing. Chanting, clapping, cheering, the stage lights dim, the crowd jump to their feet and roar as the bright lights flash on. You thought the U2 tour had been cancelled? Which band could possibly stir up this much excitement? It’s the Newsboys. They have been on the cover of Rolling ...