What do you find yourself doing on a Sunday morning? A lot of people using this site might answer that saying, 'Rushing out the door to get to church'. For other people Sunday mornings might be the perfect (or only) time for a lie-in, to get out to visit friends, spend time with the family, get on with a macramé project or whatever.

For a growing number of people it seems Sunday morning is a great time to watch porn movies online.

A year ago, I had a conversation with an acquaintance about suicide bombers. She told me that she had never understood suicide bombers until she saw the film Paradise Now. I subsequently watched the film myself, partly to see what was so persuasive, but it made me angrier against suicide bombers, not more sympathetic.

When I learned early last week that the government had withdrawn a teaching pack, which encouraged children to put themselves in the position of 7/7 suicide bombers, my immediate reaction was that ministers had made the right decision.

The Shack is an unusual book. It is, first and foremost, a good read. We are drawn into the life and thoughts of Mackenzie Allen Phillips over an extraordinary weekend. Mack meets God, but in unexpected forms. Mack has to face his own grief, anger and loss of faith.

Basic questions like the problem of human suffering, the existence of a living, loving God and our individual responsibilities to ourselves and those around us are teased out in challenging terms.

I recently saw a TV programme on Christianity in Africa. In 1900 there were just 10 million Christians in Africa; today there are over 390 million. It was suggested that this great surge only came once the religion brought by western missionaries was Africanized.

The use of African music and incorporation into the faith of indigenous perceptions of the spirit world and local beliefs about witchcraft has led to a flourishing Christianity that fits the African psyche and culture. Are there lessons for European Christianity, I wondered?

The birth of octuplets to an American woman in January has raised the question of how many children is too many children?

Whilst most of us would balk at the prospect of 14 children (Nadya Suleman, 33-year-old mother of the IVF induced octuplets, already had six similarly produced offspring) many environmentalists argue that having more than two children is selfish.

Heard about a movement in America which calls itself True Woman? It promotes 'biblical femininity' and is looking to sign up 100,000 Christian women to its manifesto. Some are calling it "wise and holy" and others have plumped for calling it a "patriarchy movement".

Now, while I laud any person, whatever their biology, who encourages their fellow believers to cultivate their relationship with The Big Man, I wince and cringe (actually, make that recoil and rage) at the language used in the True Woman manifesto...

Many papers and news outlets are currently reporting an interview Sir David Attenborough gave to the Radio Times about his latest documentary on Charles Darwin, which begins this coming weekend. During the interview the broadcaster said that he receives hate mail from Christians for failing to credit God in his documentaries.

"They tell me to burn in hell and good riddance."

A news article this week shows that due to lack of cash, the former Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, is under real threat of decline and ruin.

But should a place of such abject terror and human suffering actually be preserved? I'm not suggesting in any way that we forget the horrors of the Holocaust - not at all - but with many survivors and their relatives still alive in the world, wouldn't it be fairer to them to simply destroy all traces of the death camp?

Barack Obama is sure to have angered many Christians when, in his inaugural address, he said that he would "restore science to its rightful place".

Then two days later, reversing a decision made by his predecessor, George Bush, who was heavily influenced by the Christian lobby, he gave the go-ahead for the world's first trial of embryonic stem cell technology on humans.

Last Monday was apparently the day of the year we would feel at our lowest, thanks to short days, bad weather, post Christmas blues and bills. Perhaps now's a good time then to explore what a perfect world would look like.

Many fairy stories and romantic novels end with the hero and heroine living 'happily ever after' in a blissful world of their own, possibly 'somewhere over the rainbow' rather than in the real world. Thomas More's Utopia and Samuel Butler's Erewhon are among more serious attempts to portray a perfect society.

The notion of a past Golden Age is common...