Jean-Jacques Odier is a Swiss journalist, playwright and pro-family activist.

Six days of the summer at Caux were devoted to a conference on 'The life of faith', which was addressed by the Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaia. She told the conference why she had felt closer to God in a Soviet labour camp than she did in freedom in the West.

The Right Revd Richard Chartres is the Bishop of London

Celebrations of the new Millenium should not be only a secular event

No one gets through life without scars. Anne Marie Tate goes to the roots of inner healing

For over 300 years the Quakers have been working for peace and acting as mediators. Campbell Leggat mines the experience of a group who have never been afraid to stand up to power or to listen at the deepest level.

Possibly Australia's most unconventional priest, John Smith is increasingly taking his message to his country's centres of power. He and his wife, Glena, talk to John Bond.

This article was first printed in a shorter form, in `The Times', London, who had asked Graham Turner to defend the orthodox Christian position.

For all the noise, jocularity and familiarity of the inn, the pregnant silence of the stable is the image treasured in countless hearts.

Their real crisis is a moral crisis, and a crisis of faith. It is far harder to tackle, for it is a crisis of self-confidence, which includes the confidence to admit things we got wrong.