When we see the crib at Christmas time, and when we contemplate the shepherds, they are usually very poor, attractive, respectable people, carrying their little lambs; but history tells us […]

Some of you may have heard the ad for Barry’s tea on the radio when a young boy tells his grandad early Christmas morning “you’ll never guess what Santa brought”. […]

We often see how history has a tendency to repeat itself. Recently I was listening to a commentary about Syria and one commentator ironically said we’ve been here before with […]

We all love certainty and sometimes we have our doubts.  There are things we want to know, things we need to know but we do not know. This can be […]

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,  […]

Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch American man with a habit of avoiding useful work, lives in a village at the foot of New York’s Catskill mountains in the years before the American Revolution. […]

One of the disadvantages of social media is that it turns us all into spectators, onlookers, and bystanders. It’s very easy to pass judgement by posting something on Facebook or […]

One of the dreams and desires of many Christians is to visit the Holy Land and retrace the footsteps of the life of Jesus Christ. One of the central buildings […]

I remember reading a story about a young high school teacher named Mary. She wanted so much to succeed as a teacher. But a student named Bill was turning her […]

Several years ago, a Chicago High school student went to Nicaragua during his summer vacation to do volunteer work. He accompanied a medical team to a tiny mountain village. Life […]