Sep 28 The Obelisk that 'witnessed' St Peters Death
We go back to year 1586 and travel to Rome where a large pink granite obelisk known as "The Witness", was moved to its present location...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 2, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 31 - Grunewald, Artist of the Crucifixion
Today we remember the German Renaissance painter Matthias Grunewald who died in 1528. Now famous for his religious art that display...
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
- Aug 17, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 16 Operation Baptism
Today we got to 1944 Hungary where a dispatch from Angelo Roncalli to the papal nuncio in Hungary illustrated the intensity of...
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...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 31, 2021
- 4 min
June 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls
A Bedouin shepherd throwing a stone into a cave on the shore of the Dead Sea was puzzled by the cracking sound within. Investigating he...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 19, 2021
- 3 min
May 20 I believe ...... The Council of Nicea
Today we remember the first Ecumenical Council of the Church. It is now famous for its Christian statement of belief that is widely used...
Pearl of Great Price
- Apr 6, 2021
- 3 min
Apr 7 Richard The Lionheart
Today in 1199 King Richard I, the "Lionheart," died at the age of 41 in the arms of his mother in France, and thus "ended his earthly...
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
- Feb 24, 2021
- 3 min
Feb 25 Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights
Today we go back to the year 1336 and travel to Lithuania where the Teutonic Order had waged the decades-long Lithuanian Crusade against...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jan 31, 2021
- 4 min
Jan 31 - Youseff Karam, St Maron & Lebanon
Today in 1867 the Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam left Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria, to begin his second...
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