Pearl of Great PriceOct 22, 20215 minOct 6 Tennyson - Faith and Doubt In Memoriam Queen Victoria, the longest reigning British monarch, after the death of her beloved Prince Albert was undergoing prolonged and painful...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 18, 20214 minOct 5 Uganda -Ecumenism of BloodToday Christians took control of the government after enduring years of persecution which had triggered a rebellion. The victory was in...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 28, 20213 minSep 22 Mega-funerals - Brother Bakht SingToday in 2000 we travel to Hyderabad, India where a quarter of a million Christians clogged the streets, to pay their final respects to...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 26, 20214 minSep 19 George Hebert - poet of the moderate centreToday in 1630 the Welsh-born poet, George Herbert was ordained a priest in the Church of England, spending the rest of his life as the...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 28, 20213 minAug 24 Start of Non-conformismOn Aug 24th in 1662 the deadline arrived for all Christian Ministers to assent to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. 2000 Puritans...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 20, 20213 minAug 19 The Moabite Stone & the ExodusIts 1868 and we are in Jordan where late in the afternoon during a coffee break, the sheikh of the Banî Hamîdi tribe informed the German...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 6, 20214 minAug 4 Dr Grenfell in Labrador & the Seafarers Mission Today we travel to Labrador in Canada where Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell arrived on the remote Canadian Atlantic coast to work with colonists...
Pearl of Great PriceJul 17, 20213 minJuly 18 Birmingham City Today we remember how 6 members of the choir from Holy Trinity Church in Bordsley, Birmingham, decided to form a football club so as to...
Pearl of Great PriceJul 13, 20218 minJuly 13 C.S Lewis - A Grief ObservedToday we remember how the wife of C.S. Lewis died from cancer. Clive Staples Lewis was ranked eleventh on the Times newspaper list of...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 27, 20213 minJune 28 Monsignor Benson's Lord of the WorldToday in 1906 Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson finished his dystopian science fiction novel called Lord of the World that centres upon the...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 21, 20213 minJune 17 The Tolpuddle Martyrs George Loveless, a ploughman, community leader and Methodist preacher returned from exile today in 1837, from what was then known as Van...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 21, 20214 minJune 16 John Henry Newman and Lead Kindly Light In 1833 the young Anglican priest John Henry Newman, while traveling on a ship from Italy to France, wrote the words to the hymn, “Lead...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 5, 20213 minJune 6 John Polkinghorne - Science & Religion Today we remember how in 1982 and travel to where the theoretical physicist John Polkinghorne was ordained an Anglican priest in...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 4, 20213 minJune 5 The Sermon that inspired the Riot Act Rev Henry Sacheverell had become famous in England for preaching an incendiary sermon on the 5 November. In his impeachment trial by the...
Pearl of Great PriceMay 28, 20214 minMay 29 G.K.Chesterton's quest for orthodoxyOne of the greatest writers in the English language at the beginning of the 20th Century. On an intense spiritual journey that took him...
Pearl of Great PriceMay 26, 20213 minMay 27 The oldest continuing legal systemThe Body of Canon law is historically continuous from the early church to the present, and such can claim to be the oldest functioning...
Pearl of Great PriceMay 24, 20216 minMay 25 The Ecumenical Imperative it’s the 25th of May and on this day in Christian History we go back to year 1995 and travel to Rome where Ut Unum Sint, the first...
Pearl of Great PriceMay 19, 20213 minMay 20 I believe ...... The Council of NiceaToday we remember the first Ecumenical Council of the Church. It is now famous for its Christian statement of belief that is widely used...
Pearl of Great PriceApr 30, 20213 minMay 1 The Death of David Livingstone Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone was one of the most popular figures in Late Victorian Britain. His legacy is striking,...
Pearl of Great PriceApr 26, 20217 minApr 26 William Shakespeare's Baptism and hidden messagesToday we remember the earliest record we have of William Shakespeares life - April 26th 1564 the day he was baptised in the Holy Trinity...