Let's face it, there are many emotions around Christmas and joy is not always the most prominent. We're as much likely to have...

Let the Australian have their Christmas BBQ on a beach. Christmas works best in darkness. Darkness was the setting of the first...

Has any other season got it's own soundtrack? You could argue that there's a distinct summer sound but no season has us singing more than...

The Birth of Jesus was a cosmic event. Nothing like this in all existence has ever happened before. The One who was outside time and...

Joy to the World Does it sadden you that there are children in the world who will not receive a gift this Christmas? If it does, you...

While not all heroes wear capes, no heroes wear swaddling clothes. The weak are rescued by the strong that’s just a given. Yet if we are...

The birth of a baby in the Middle East over two thousand years ago is one of our cultures most enduring stories. Our world has been...

The ordinary gets bad press. The ordinary is seen as dull, boring, routine and unimpressive. Something to be endured while you search for...

The organisers of the meeting are hoping for a good turn out. They feel the issues at stake are so important that whole families will...

A swastika painted on the side of O’Reilly’s would cause revulsion and many would clamber to have it removed. Yet no-one bats an eye lid...

St Patrick lived under the same sun as we do but saw it differently. He saw it differently because he was looking at it through biblical...

On Saturday past, I was playing American Football. There I was on the field with these huge men running at me, I didn’t know what to do....

I'm a day dreamer. Always have been. Give young Andrew a stick and it became a sword which cut to pieces those soldiers (nettles) that...

It was dark when we (Koda and me) travelled to Drumkeeragh Forrest. That darkness provided the best backdrop for the oranges and reds...

From Bobby Charlton to Halloween we can't help ourselves it just slips out. We try to live our lives under the belief that there's...

The dead heart that was thrust through with a spear began to beat again. The lungs that had breathed their last filled again with the...

On this glorious Good Friday morning death is far from our minds. We don't think of death in the spring, we think of life. We hear the...

Christmas has it's own unique magic. Something within our hearts changes at Christmas. We are more generous, joyful and excited than any...

That phrase came to me when I woke the other morning. It was nearly my first thought. Outside darkness and a gale and as I lay cozy in...

John Lewis has captured the heart of Christmas in a way no other advert will. Other Christmas ads will try to create in us Christmasy...