The Trojan Horse refers to a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks, during the Trojan War in 500 BC, to enter the city ofTroy and win the war. […]

The Bible has often been called a great textbook on human behaviour. If people followed the teaching of Jesus a lot of psychiatrists could close their offices and go fishing […]

At the time of Jesus, faithful Jews, such as the scribes and Pharisees, observed many religious laws. The lifeblood of the Pharisees was the Law of Moses, which comprised not […]

One day a man visited Mother Theresa’s home for the poor and dying in Calcutta. He arrived just as the sisters were bringing in some of the dying in the […]

Last week we saw Jesus outlining his dream, his plan for the salvation of the world. Today in the Beatitudes we have the essence of Christ’s mission. The beatitudes are […]

On the 28th August 1963 Martin Luther King delivered a famous speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.  ‘I have a dream today. I have a […]

John Ruskin was an English author, philosopher, and art critic, who died in the year 1900; he has written many books on different topics and one of these topics was […]

Flannery O’Connor was an American writer who lived in the early 20th century. She was a catholic and being born in Georgia she lived in the Bible Belt in the […]

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”. […]