Five days after the earthquake that devastated their city, about 30 people from the small Lutheran community in Christchurch met on Sunday morning for worship services in their darkened church. The services were gentle: some readings, some songs ...

We’d retired and settled into a quiet life, spending time with the family, working around the house and garden — filling in time quite nicely, thank you very much. Then bang out of nowhere we were thinking about volunteering overseas to teach English.

It all started with that first wobbly ride on a friend’s new motorbike. He managed twice around the block without coming to grief — and he was hooked. Two weeks later, while on holidays in Adelaide, on impulse 21-year-old Ben Mogg bought a Suzuki GSX 250 and arranged for it to be sent home to Mt Gambier on the train.

by Lyall Kupke Their first mission was to the Aborigines of the Adelaide district. Within eight years they had abandoned it. There were no converts. For years it was regarded as a failure. This year as they begin to celebrate their 175th annivers...

by Nick Mattiske Generous JusticeAuthor: Timothy KellerPublisher: Hodder and Stoughton In the past decade there has been a renewed interest in the biblical idea of justice, particularly as it applies internationally, led by such believers as rock ...

Response by Rev Dr Vic Pfitzner I guess I’m not the only one — certainly not the only Christian — who felt uncomfortable at the sight of crowds waving flags, singing and dancing in celebration of Osama bin Laden’s death. How can one be happy at an...

Pastor Peter Ravikumar is a Dalit, a member of India’s largest and lowest caste. By birthright Dalits are subservient to other castes and often fill the filthiest and most undesirable roles in Indian society. In many parts of the country they are considered outcasts, unclean, untouchable. It’s with these people that Peter has spent his adult life sharing the gospel.

High up in the misty mountains of southern India we sit together on a woven mat in an empty classroom. The two girls’ relaxed-yet-formal posture suggests something close to aloofness. They seem to float, above the world and its problems, above any challenge that confronts them.

China’s Cultural Revolution was a deeply painful period for gifted teenager He Qi. Now an artist of international renown, he’s starting a revolution of his own — one that brings peace, not pain

by Lyall Kupke The courage and energy of many young German women and girls saved the early settlers in South Australia from a boring diet. When the first British settlers arrived at Adelaide late in 1836, many had to wait for months or even years ...