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Caesar Augustus – taken from God With Us In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world . . . And...

Advent Calendar – taken from Celebrating Christmas The most obvious expression of the countdown to Christmas today is the Advent calendar, a card with a flap for each day of the season,...

It's a Wonderful Life– taken from Christmas at the Movies It’s a Wonderful Life follows the life of George Bailey, born and raised in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls....

Advent – taken from Celebrating Christmas The run-up to Christmas is considered by the church as the season of Advent, from the Latin ‘Adventus’, or ‘coming’. Advent is a time of preparation,...

Every year Christmas seems to arrive faster, like a train thundering into the station before we’ve even packed our bags. We rush, we shop, we scroll and then sigh, ‘Did...

Every December the world sparkles. Lights appear in windows, cinnamon and cedar aromas permeate the air, pine trees migrate indoors and carols drift through shopping centres while trolleys overflow with...

We live in a world that celebrates speed, success and strength, but often forgets kindness. Yet it’s kindness that keeps humanity human. A kind word, a patient tone, a helping...

Tuesday 11th November is Remembrance Day. Every year on Remembrance Day, we pause. We bow our heads. We fall silent. We lay wreaths. These moments matter, but remembrance is more...

My friend Michael Emmett has been promoted to glory. Born in 1955, he entered eternity yesterday. His life was a story of two halves: the first marked by crime; the...

Travelling to Australia is always an adventure, especially when the adventure begins before you even reach the airport.It started with a throbbing toe. The one that decides to declare independence...

Let me explain why I don’t agree with Halloween:First, Halloween deceives us about evil. It creates a cartoon vision of evil as trivial, harmless fun that no one could possibly...

Airports are the world’s greatest social laboratories. Where else do you queue barefoot, surrender your liquids and have strangers pat you down all before breakfastRecently, at airport security, a woman...