Pearl of Great PriceOct 22, 20213 minOct 9 Father Gabriel Fallopio - Rennaisance AnatomistToday in 1562 we remember the death of Father Gabriel Fallopio the most illustrious of 16th-century Italian anatomist died. He...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 2, 20214 minSep 25 Rudolph Otto and the Idea of the Holy Today in 1869 we remember the birth near Hannover in Germany of Rudolph Otto. He is now regarded as one of the most influential...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 30, 20213 minSep 24 The Venerable BedeToday in the year 654 the first general council of the Anglo-Saxon Church opened. It was convened in Hertford, by Theodore of Tarsus,...
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, 20214 minSep 17 Adrienne von SpeyrToday we remember the death of the Swiss doctor and mystic Adrienne von Speyr. Born and raised during the early twentieth century in a...
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, 20214 minSep 8 Worshipping God through discovering GenesToday in 1989 the journal Science published the results of the work of Francis Collins who identified the gene which explained cystic...
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 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 20, 20214 minAug 17 Excavating Armageddon Today we travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Clarence Stanley Fisher was born in 1876. He would devote his life to Near Eastern...
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 2, 20215 minAug 2 Edith Stein Today in 1942 the Carmelite Nun Edith Stein was arrested in her convent in the Netherlands by the SS and taken to Auschwitz concentration...
Pearl of Great PriceJul 27, 20214 minJuly 28 The Iron Age Stone which tells story of IsraelToday an English archaeologist, Flinders Petrie discovered a remarkable stone with an inscription on it by the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh...
Pearl of Great PriceJul 24, 20214 minJuly 23 Cuba's Hurricane Priest The Jesuit priest Benito Vines spent decades observing the skies at the Belen Observatory in colonial Cuba. He is now seen as a pioneer...
Pearl of Great PriceJul 22, 20214 minJuly 21 Marcelo Glasier - Wonder and CosmologyToday Marcelo Glasier, published a fascinating book, The Prophet and the Astronomer: Apocalyptic Science and the End of the World. It was...
Pearl of Great PriceJul 7, 20213 minJuly 8 John Templeton and the Templeton Prize Today we travel to the Bahamas and remember the death of Sir John Mark Templeton at the age of 95. The year before he died, Templeton...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 29, 20213 minJune 30 Mother Noella - World Expert in Cheese MakingToday we travel to Connecticut in the USA where Martha A. Marcellino was born in 1951. She is now known as Mother Noella Marcellino, a...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 21, 20214 minJune 20 Fr George Lemaitre and the Big BangThe pioneering priest and physicist George Lemaitre died today. He is famous for proposing the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the...
Pearl of Great PriceJun 21, 20214 minJune 18 Laudato Si - Caring for our common homeToday in 2015, the ground-breaking encyclical Laudato Si was published. Building on the body of the Church’s social teaching it ...