Stories For Speakers And Writers

The American Congregationalist pastor, Henry Ward Beecher, once received a letter containing the single word, ‘Fool’. Beecher told his congr...

Last Monday night a who's who of classical musicians combined with aspiring musos to play Verdi's Requiem at Carnegie Hall and to ra...

When introducing a guest speaker it pays to do your homework well. The chairperson of a local Chamber of Commerce had the task of introducin...

After an oil spill in 1972 in the San Francisco Bay, John Francis gave up his car and other oil hungry machines and began walking everywhere...

The latest edition of the New York Review of Books contains the translated script of a compelling speech by David Grossman. Speaking at th...

Marketers have gone crazy in their quest to sell any space with their customer’s advertisements. I am not one to hit the television mute but...

An interesting sexual journey is told by Dawn Eden in a recent British Times article entitled: Casual Sex is a con: Women just aren't ...

Millions of American Jews read the order of service for their Seder, or Passover meal, from a booklet produced by Maxwell House Coffee . For...

A study was once carried out of concentration camp survivors in order to ascertain the common characteristics of those who did not succumb t...

The teacher who gave the great reformer Martin Luther his Christian instruction, always took off his hat when he came before the class of li...

In 1983, Henry Blofeld (affectionately known as 'Blowers') was a sports reporter for The Guardian and was covering the cricket game ...

Having recently returned from Kolkata where influenza was raging and Indonesia where they have just buried the country’s 79th victim of bird...

The United Arab Emirates has come up with a novel way to reform its prison inmates. Since 2002 the Dubai authorities have offered to prisone...

Thomas Merton was a capable student with all sorts of opportunities before him but he shocked many when he exchanged it all for a life of pr...

There is a great story in the New York Times about a woman who discovers that training her husband or children can be so easily learned fro...

Development of the Dreamer Martin Luther King Jnr., was born on this day (January 15) in 1929 at the family home in Auburn Avenue Atlanta, G...

The other day I was talking with a friend who was sounding off about the lack of team work that he was experiencing and the 'every perso...

In England at the commencement of the 15th century there was a priory where monks and nuns would take refuge and pray. They were part of the...

In Costa Coffee shops their sandwiches and panini always bear these lines: CONTACT US: If you have any comments or ideas about how we can m...

The historian, Peter Ackroyd, in his ‘biography’ of London writes about the significance of parks, gardens and wide open spaces to people in...

This article on bridging the generational gap is stimulating: Depressing Old Folk’s Home Six months before she died, my grandmother moved in...

Beware of the new trends in home furnishing that have just been announced in the USA. We have visited homes where the TV is hidden away in a...

F W Boreham tells this story in one of his many books: “I was in London in 1888, when the Parnell Commission became the centre of world-wide...

Stymie or Stimulate Unfortunately many leaders block and stymie the initiative of the people they serve yet the important challenge for lead...

I visited St Paul’s Cathedral recently and at a service of worship under the great dome I thought of the following story and the truth that ...