Oct 8 Japans Shindler's List
Mrs. Yukiko Sugihara, who had helped her husband, Chiune, rescue thousands of Jews from Lithuania during World War II. They were a...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 22, 2021
- 5 min
Oct 6 Tennyson - Faith and Doubt In Memoriam
Queen Victoria, the longest reigning British monarch, after the death of her beloved Prince Albert was undergoing prolonged and painful...
Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 18, 2021
- 5 min
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...
Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 14, 2021
- 4 min
Oct 1 Guardini - The Lord
Today we are Munich in Bavaria, where one of the most creative theologians of the 20th Century, Romano Guardini died in 1968. His...
Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 14, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 30 George Tyrell and Modernism
Today in 1907 and a letter in the Times from the priest George Tyrell, and publisjed in London, which was against the papal encyclical...
Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 2, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 26 Abraham Lincolns call for prayer and fasting
1861 and travel to Washington DC in North America where today President Abraham Lincoln recommended a day of public humiliation, prayer,...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 25, 2021
- 4 min
Sep 17 Adrienne von Speyr
Today 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 Price
- Sep 20, 2021
- 6 min
Sep 12 Richard Challoner - leading under pressure
Richard Challoner would become the leading figure of English Catholicism for the greater part of the eighteenth century. He was bright...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 8, 2021
- 4 min
Sep 3 The Heliand - Old Norse Epic Poem about the life of Christ
Today in 1830 the first complete edition of the Heliand was published by Johann Andreas Schmeller. This was a ninth century epic poem...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 30, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 30 The Rev Chambers, Everton & Liverpool
Today we travel to Yorkshire in the north of England where Ben Swift Chambers was born in 1845. He would become a Methodist minister and...
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 30, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 28 Medellin & Liberation Theology
Today we go back to year 1968 and travel to Medellin in Colombia, were the Second Latin American bishops' conference opened as a...
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
- 3 min
August 20 Bultmann and Demythologisation
Today we travel to Germany where the influential Lutheran theologian Rudolf Karl Bultmann was born in 1884. One of the pioneers of the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 20, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 19 The Moabite Stone & the Exodus
Its 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 Price
- Aug 20, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 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 Price
- Jul 30, 2021
- 3 min
July 30 Johann Sebastian Bach
Today in 1750 the body of Johan Sebastian Bach was laid to rest in an unmarked grave at the churchyard of St. John’s, Leipzig. The...
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 12, 2021
- 4 min
July 12 The Fall of Jerusalem and Destroying the Temple
Today we remember how in AD 70 the armies of the Roman Emperor Titus attacked the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege, starting...
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