Oct 4 Rembrandt - painter of the soul
Today in 1669 we travel to Holland where we remember the death of the great Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. Rembrandt was...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 18, 2021
- 3 min
Oct 3 Zionism in Africa and John Alexander Dowie
Today we look at the figure of John Alexander Dowie suffered from a stroke in Chicago on Oct 3rd. Dowie was a Scottish / Australian...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 21 Rev Thomas Bayes - father of statistics
Today in 1701 Thomas Bayes was born into a prominent nonconformist family from Sheffield. He would be known for formulating: Bayes'...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 25, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 18 Rev George Macdonald and Goblins
Today we remember the death in 1905 of the Scottish clergyman George MacDonald who wrote novels to support himself. He is best remembered...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 15, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 10 Jung, Religion and the Collective Unconscious
Today at Yale University, Carl Jung’s Terry lectures on Psychology and Religion were published. He had delivered the lectures in 1938...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 14, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 7 The Jos Riots
Today we travel to central Nigeria where in the city of Jos terrible riots began today between Christians and Muslims. They were to last...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 14, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 6 Blaise Pascal, Jansenism and Salvation
Today in 1657 the Vatican placed Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters on the Index of Prohibited Books. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 30, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 29 Faraday discovers Electricity
Today the great experimentalist Michael Faraday induced the first electrical current. Faraday would later use the principles he had...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 28, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 24 Start of Non-conformism
On 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 Price
- Aug 27, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 23 The Violent death of Brother Roger of Taizé
Today we travel to Taizé in France where today in 2005 the founder of the world famous ecumenical community was buried days after he had...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 11, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 11 Deep Ethics Cosmology - George Ellis
Today in 1939 George Francis Rayner Ellis was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is now the emeritus distinguished professor of...
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
- Jun 28, 2021
- 4 min
June 29 Poet of the Spirit - Elizabeth Barret Browning
Today we travel to Florence in Italy where the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning died. Married to another poet – Robert Browning,...
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 28, 2021
- 4 min
May 29 G.K.Chesterton's quest for orthodoxy
One 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 Price
- May 10, 2021
- 5 min
May 10 Karl Barth, influential Protestant Theologian
Karl Barth the most influential Protestant theologian of the 20th century was born on May 10th 1886. A leader of the 'Confessing Church'...
Pearl of Great Price
- Apr 6, 2021
- 4 min
Apr 6 Salt Lake Temple
Today we go back to 1893 and travel to Utah in North America and remember the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple . What is the theology...
Pearl of Great Price
- Apr 3, 2021
- 3 min
Apr 4 Easter Sunday
Today in the West, Christians celebrate Easter, the touchstone of the Christian Faith. In todays reflection we look at the boldness of...
Pearl of Great Price
- Mar 16, 2021
- 3 min
Mar 17 The Mormon Relief Society
On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1842 and travel to Illinois when today the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus...
Pearl of Great Price
- Mar 3, 2021
- 2 min
Mar 4 Williams Penn's Holy Experiment - Philadelphia and Pennsylvania
Today in 1681, King Charles II handed over a large piece of his North American land holdings to William Penn in order to pay off debts to...