Today is St Nicholas’ Day. St Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, pawnbrokers, repenting thieves and children. He is also the patron saint of Russia and Greece, and such cities as Liverpool, Aberdeen and Galway, and is also popularly known as Santa...

The Christmas story is all about God interrupting people. He sent angels to interrupt and disrupt ordinary lives: first of all, Zechariah in the temple (taking so long to perform his duties as a result that people wondered what was going on!), then Mary (given the...

How do we react on a Monday morning, compared to a Sunday?! Many of us work Mondays to Fridays, and there is often the sense of ‘I don’t like Mondays’ after a weekend of pleasurable activities. Mondays represent the everyday life; there is a popular meme which says a...