Sep 22 Mega-funerals - Brother Bakht Sing
Today in 2000 we travel to Hyderabad, India where a quarter of a million Christians clogged the streets, to pay their final respects to...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 11, 2021
- 6 min
Aug 10 Salvation Outside the Church
On August 10 1863 Pope Pius IX issued an encyclical Quanto conficiamur in which he expressed the possibility that non-Catholics and...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 6, 2021
- 5 min
Aug 5 Bill W & Alcoholics Anonymous
Today in 1934 Bill Wilson was lying in Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City under the care of Dr....
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 6, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 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 Price
- Jul 27, 2021
- 5 min
July 25 Left Behind, the Rapture & Armageddon
Today in 2016 in San Diego, the American Baptist pastor and author Tim LaHaye, died aged 90. He will be remembered as the author of the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 10, 2021
- 3 min
July 11 Eric Liddell the Flying Scotsman
Today we remember how the Scottish Missionary Eric Liddell won the Olympic 400-meter race in Paris after he had rejected an opportunity...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 23, 2021
- 5 min
June 24 The last 'crusade' of Billy Graham
It was in Flushing Meadows in New York where the American evangelist Billy Graham today began what he said would be his last North...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 9, 2021
- 6 min
June 10 Von Harnack, Theology of Culture and the Jesus of History
Today we remember the death of Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack , an influential German theologian and historian; who had a huge impact on...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 29, 2021
- 3 min
May 30 The Confessing Church resisting the Nazis
Today in 1934 the first synod of the Confessing Church ended. They issued the important Barmen Declaration. An important and brave...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 17, 2021
- 3 min
May 18 The Kidnapping of a Megachurch founder
Canadian Aimee Semple McPherson was a pioneer of evangelism. Faith-healer, founder of the Foursquare Gospel Church and builder of the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Mar 26, 2021
- 3 min
Mar 26 The mixed legacy of Ravi Zacharias
Today in 1946 in Madras, India controversial Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias was born. He inspired a generation of apologists and...
Pearl of Great Price
- Mar 8, 2021
- 3 min
Mar 8 Reagan's Evil Empire
Today in 1983 in Orlando, Florida, American president Ronald Reagan in an address to the National Association of Evangelicals used the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
Feb 21 - World Council of Churches
Today we go back to year 1991 and travel to Canberra in Australia, and the closing of the 7th assembly of the World Council of Churches. ...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jan 30, 2021
- 3 min
Jan 23 - The Netherlands Splits
Today in 1579 a treaty was signed by Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, and the province (but not the city) of Groningen which effectively split...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jan 26, 2021
- 2 min
Jan 10 John Paul II & Ronald Reagan
On Jan 10 1984 The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in 117 years. This was mainly...