Christmas Tree – Celebrating the Giving of Love and Life
Christmas became a celebrated occasion during the nineteenth century in England. Its ethos is about giving love and life, of which the tree is a powerful symbol
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Merry Xmas, Happy Times Ahead – Festive Summertime Australia
It’s Summertime in Australia in the festive season so if you are visiting from interstate or overseas slap on your 30+ sunscreen and a hat and get out and about
Christmas Gifts: Celebrating Life – Giving Joy All Year Long
Christmas that great festival of love is nearly here and so it’s time to pause and reflect on the gifts we give – will they provide more than momentary pleasure
Christmas Fun: LOL at Human Frailty and the World Laughs Too
These delightful real church bulletins reveal how easily our human frailty surfaces when we muddle our metaphors as we endeavour to construct English sentences
Christmas Gifts: Bronwyn Bancroft’s Aboriginal Picture Books
Love of country ripples through Bronwyn Bancroft’s picture books for children who are enriched by her response to Aboriginal culture & Australia’s unique beauty
Give the Gift of Good Cheer, Sweet Words & Love at Christmas
Celebrate the festive season with good cheer, it’s time for sweet words, to be thankful to your host and resolve to give joy to others, to praise and enjoy life
Christmas: A Time for Reflection – Hope Springs Eternal
At Athens the temple was for priests, people standing outside divinity hidden – the Christian worshipped inside an architectural space where hope sprung eternal
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas in Stonnington
Stonnington Council commissioned award winning Melbourne visual artist Kate Rohde to create a fresh modern interpretation of traditional Christmas decorations
Jo Bayley’s Christmas Gift Ideas – Design, Fashion & Style
So it’s that time of year again. Christmas decorations are out in all the shopping malls and if you are anything like me the mere thought of holiday shopping just seems to have snuck up way to fast for my liking! Every year it is the same, we seem to…
Epiphany: Gold, Frankincense Myrrh – Three Wise Men or Kings
January 6, climax of the Twelve Days of Christmas celebrating The Epiphany, as three wise men or kings came with gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh for Jesus
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year – Chilling Out in Style
Choose from our lists of top posts to read during the summer holidays, while The Culture Concept Circle team are chilling out by taking a break until Epiphany
An Australian Xmas – Celebrating Past Glories & Future Joys
Carolyn McDowall muses on an Australian Xmas for the Culture Concept Circle, celebrating past glories and joys to come, as we move forward imagining the future
Message of Christmas – Caring, Courage, Compassion and Love
Christmas, that time of year when telling stories about life in Roman times, and making beautiful music, is part of a feast of ideas celebrating art and culture
Handel’s Messiah – MSO: MacLiver, Hansen, McMahon and Brook
Handel’s Messiah delivered with elegant restraint by Sara MacLiver, David Hansen, Paul McMahon and Matthew Brook singing with the MSO had an air of universality
Birth of Jesus – A Gift for the World of Love & Forgiveness
In Bethlehem Mary gave birth to her firstborn child, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them at the inn.
Christmas Celebration – Commerce & Christianity in Tension
Jesus championed love and forgiveness. Today holding commerce and Christianity in unique tension, is about maintaining a balance between opposite sides of truth