The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy has a beautiful story about a cobbler – shoe maker – Martin, who lives in Tolstoy’s own native village.  In this story, Tolstoy develops the […]

On a crisp clear morning over 100 years ago, in 1914,  thousands of British, Belgian and French soldiers, put down their rifles, stepped out of their trenches, and spent Chrismtas […]

Many years ago, in Paris there was a boy called Paul Claudel, He was from a very good family, and he was very intelligent. He was also nominally a catholic, he […]

There is an old Irish legend, about a King and a Queen who went to war with each other.  The Queen was Queen Maeve of Connacht,  and the King was: […]

Sometimes a conversation bewteen two people could change the history of the world. We see at the moment the conversations in Baku  in Azerbaijan,  as the COP 2024 summit comes […]

I  remember when I was a teenager, many years ago, there was a song called: ‘The end of the world’. It was sung by an American pop star called Skeeter […]

This story is no doubt one of the most beautiful stories in the New Testament and the most attractive aspect of it is that it is a true story. Throughout […]

In a little town near Medea in Algeria – Northern Africa – there was a group of French Trapist monks, who lived at the monastery of Notre Dame. They prayed […]

On one occasion I was driving in Northern Spain, from Oviedo to Leon over the Pyrenees when I was caught in a dense fog, and I could only see a […]

O. Henry was an American writer known for his short stories. One of these stories was about a married couple. They lived in a small apartment in a big American […]