Listen again to BBC Radio Ulster Thought For The Day Scientists and anthropologists have often asked themselves ‘What is it that human beings can do that Artificial Intelligence can’t’? Computers after all can play...

Listen again to BBC Radio Ulster Thought For The Day Till Keller tells a version of this story. Shane was a professional investor who had done well picking stocks on the open market. Puffed...

Listen again to BBC Radio Ulster Thought For The Day Today is an extremely important day in my life. Just after 11 o’clock this morning I will have the privilege of baptising my granddaughter,...

Listen again to BBC Radio Ulster Thought For The Day This week I received a letter of thanks. It’s from one of the least well-off families I have the privilege to know. That card...

Listen again to BBC Radio Ulster Thought For The Day Have you ever heard any of these sayings: – “Am I my brother’s keeper?” “Land of milk and honey”, “A man after my own...

Listen to Thought for the Day on BBC Sounds. How can any of us ever forget those words of Her Majesty the Queen at Dublin Castle 11 years ago when she stunned all present...

Listen to Thought for the Day on BBC Sounds. The serene final words of poet Seamus Heaney, to his wife Marie, were “Noli Temere”. Latin for ‘Do not be afraid’. The Bible urges us...

Listen to Thought for the Day on BBC Sounds. I don’t know how you are with abbreviations. Whether you like them or loath them. We use them all the time for better or for...

Listen to Thought for the Day on BBC Sounds. A long time ago, God’s people faced an enormous problem. The problem was huge. Giant!- And the giant’s name was ‘Goliath’! The Philistines had come...

Listen to Thought for the Day on BBC Sounds. Today is Friday 13th. A day filled with mild anxiety for some, and more serious concerns for others, given centuries’ old legends surrounding it. The...