Pearl of Great PriceOct 18, 20215 minOct 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...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 18, 20213 minOct 3 Zionism in Africa and John Alexander DowieToday 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 PriceSep 28, 20213 minSep 21 Rev Thomas Bayes - father of statisticsToday in 1701 Thomas Bayes was born into a prominent nonconformist family from Sheffield. He would be known for formulating: Bayes'...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 25, 20213 minSep 18 Rev George Macdonald and GoblinsToday 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 PriceSep 15, 20215 minSep 10 Jung, Religion and the Collective UnconsciousToday at Yale University, Carl Jung’s Terry lectures on Psychology and Religion were published. He had delivered the lectures in 1938...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 14, 20213 minSep 7 The Jos RiotsToday 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 PriceSep 14, 20215 minSep 6 Blaise Pascal, Jansenism and SalvationToday in 1657 the Vatican placed Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters on the Index of Prohibited Books. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 30, 20214 minAug 29 Faraday discovers ElectricityToday the great experimentalist Michael Faraday induced the first electrical current. Faraday would later use the principles he had...
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 27, 20214 minAug 23 The Violent death of Brother Roger of TaizéToday 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 PriceAug 11, 20214 minAug 11 Deep Ethics Cosmology - George EllisToday in 1939 George Francis Rayner Ellis was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is now the emeritus distinguished professor of...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 11, 20216 minAug 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 PriceJun 28, 20214 minJune 29 Poet of the Spirit - Elizabeth Barret BrowningToday we travel to Florence in Italy where the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning died. Married to another poet – Robert Browning,...
Pearl of Great PriceMay 29, 20213 minMay 30 The Confessing Church resisting the NazisToday in 1934 the first synod of the Confessing Church ended. They issued the important Barmen Declaration. An important and brave...
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 10, 20215 minMay 10 Karl Barth, influential Protestant TheologianKarl 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 PriceApr 6, 20214 minApr 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 PriceApr 3, 20213 minApr 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 PriceMar 16, 20213 minMar 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 PriceMar 3, 20212 minMar 4 Williams Penn's Holy Experiment - Philadelphia and PennsylvaniaToday 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...