Today in 1669 we travel to Holland where we remember the death of the great Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. Rembrandt was...

Today we look at the figure of John Alexander Dowie suffered from a stroke in Chicago on Oct 3rd. Dowie was a Scottish / Australian...

Today in 1701 Thomas Bayes was born into a prominent nonconformist family from Sheffield. He would be known for formulating: Bayes'...

Today we remember the death in 1905 of the Scottish clergyman George MacDonald who wrote novels to support himself. He is best remembered...

Today at Yale University, Carl Jung’s Terry lectures on Psychology and Religion were published. He had delivered the lectures in 1938...

Today we travel to central Nigeria where in the city of Jos terrible riots began today between Christians and Muslims. They were to last...

Today in 1657 the Vatican placed Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters on the Index of Prohibited Books. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum...

Today the great experimentalist Michael Faraday induced the first electrical current. Faraday would later use the principles he had...

On Aug 24th in 1662 the deadline arrived for all Christian Ministers to assent to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. 2000 Puritans...

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...

Today in 1939 George Francis Rayner Ellis was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is now the emeritus distinguished professor of...

On August 10 1863 Pope Pius IX issued an encyclical Quanto conficiamur in which he expressed the possibility that non-Catholics and...

Today we travel to Florence in Italy where the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning died. Married to another poet – Robert Browning,...

Today in 1934 the first synod of the Confessing Church ended. They issued the important Barmen Declaration. An important and brave...

One of the greatest writers in the English language at the beginning of the 20th Century. On an intense spiritual journey that took him...

Karl Barth the most influential Protestant theologian of the 20th century was born on May 10th 1886. A leader of the 'Confessing Church'...

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...

Today in the West, Christians celebrate Easter, the touchstone of the Christian Faith. In todays reflection we look at the boldness of...

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...

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...