Oct 7 - Mother Teresa founds her order
Today in 1950, Mother Teresa founded the religious order the Missionaries of Charity. Today she received permission from the Holy See to...
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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
- Sep 20, 2021
- 6 min
Sep 13 Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov
Today in Christian History we go back to year 1874 and travel to Russia where today the writer Fyodor Doestoevsky finished the first...
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
- 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 29, 2021
- 8 min
Aug 26 Nietzsche and the 'murder' of God
Today in 1900 the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche died. The last ten years of his life had been filled with unhappiness...
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 17, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 15 Cologne Cathedral - 632 years in the making
Today in 1880 Cologne Cathedral was finished. It was Germany's largest cathedral and for four years it was the tallest building in the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 14, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 13 James Joyce, Faith and Ulysees
We travel to 1903 Dublin , Ireland were the Irish novelist and poet, James Joyce returned to Ireland from studies in Paris when his...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 11, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 11 Deep Ethics Cosmology - George Ellis
Today in 1939 George Francis Rayner Ellis was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is now the emeritus distinguished professor of...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 11, 2021
- 6 min
Aug 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 Price
- Jul 31, 2021
- 3 min
July 31 Tsarist Troops storm Mount Athos
Today in 1913, Russian troops stormed the St Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos and deported about 80 Russian monks, Six months earlier...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 24, 2021
- 4 min
July 24 Christine, the Beguines & the Bollandists
Today in 1242 the mystic Christine von Stommeln was born near Cologne. We look at her unusual life - and how it took her to the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 22, 2021
- 5 min
July 22 Mary Magdalene
Today in 2016 Pope Francis passed a decree declaring a major feast day in honour of Mary Magdalene to be celebrated annually on July...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 5, 2021
- 8 min
July 6 Mircea Eliade and the Eternal Return
Today we look at the life and thought of Mircea Eliade a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 2, 2021
- 3 min
July 3 Prester John and Marco Polo
For more than 500 years, Europeans believed a Christian king ruled over a vast empire somewhere in the wilds of Africa, India or the Far...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 26, 2021
- 5 min
June 27 Rene Girard - Mimetic Desire & the Scapegoat
year 2008 and travel to St Andrews in Scotland were the French polymath, Rene Girard was given honorary degree at St Andrews. Beginning...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 25, 2021
- 6 min
June 26 Beauty, Truth & Goodness - Hans Urs von Balthazar
Today in 1988 we remember the death of one of the greatest theological minds of the 20th Century. Hans Urs Von Balthazar died just two...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 9, 2021
- 6 min
June 10 Von Harnack, Theology of Culture and the Jesus of History
Today we remember the death of Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack , an influential German theologian and historian; who had a huge impact on...
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