Oct 10 The First Millenial Saint?
We remember today how in Monza in Italy a 15 year old boy Carlo Acutis died of leukaemia. He was a remarkable young man. He stated that...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 21 Rev Thomas Bayes - father of statistics
Today in 1701 Thomas Bayes was born into a prominent nonconformist family from Sheffield. He would be known for formulating: Bayes'...
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
- 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
- Jul 27, 2021
- 6 min
July 27 Bonhoeffers Parents find out he is dead through the BBC
Today Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s, parents learnt of his execution by Nazis at Flossenberg concentration camp through a radio broadcast from...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 13, 2021
- 8 min
July 13 C.S Lewis - A Grief Observed
Today we remember how the wife of C.S. Lewis died from cancer. Clive Staples Lewis was ranked eleventh on the Times newspaper list of...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 10, 2021
- 3 min
July 11 Eric Liddell the Flying Scotsman
Today we remember how the Scottish Missionary Eric Liddell won the Olympic 400-meter race in Paris after he had rejected an opportunity...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 4, 2021
- 3 min
July 5 Thomas Cook transforms temperance into tourism
Today we travel to Leicester in England where Thomas Cook organised his first rail excursion for a day out to Loughborough. 500 people...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 21, 2021
- 3 min
June 21 The Man who wanted to feed the world
Today in 1834 in Chicago, Cyrus McCormick, a Christian inventor died. He patented the world’s first workable agricultural reaper,...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 4, 2021
- 3 min
June 5 The Sermon that inspired the Riot Act
Rev Henry Sacheverell had become famous in England for preaching an incendiary sermon on the 5 November. In his impeachment trial by the...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 25, 2021
- 4 min
May 26 Barnardo's
Today in Dublin in 1826, a teenager with a big heart an a desire to do something important called Thomas Bernardo experienced an...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 23, 2021
- 3 min
May 24 John Wesley's Conversion
In Aldersgate, London, Anglican priest John Wesley had an experience in the middle of a spiritual crisis which lead to establishment of...
Pearl of Great Price
- Apr 27, 2021
- 3 min
Apr 27 Milton's Paradise Lost
Today the Puritan poet John Milton sold for ten pounds the copyright of his epic poem Paradise Lost. This lament, written after Cromwell...
Pearl of Great Price
- Apr 26, 2021
- 7 min
Apr 26 William Shakespeare's Baptism and hidden messages
Today we remember the earliest record we have of William Shakespeares life - April 26th 1564 the day he was baptised in the Holy Trinity...
Pearl of Great Price
- Apr 24, 2021
- 3 min
Apr 25 Barnsley FC & Muscular Christianity
Today we remember the life and death of the English clergyman Tiverton Preedy. The founder of Barnsley FC, winners of the FA Cup in 1912,...
Pearl of Great Price
- Apr 17, 2021
- 6 min
Apr 18 St Peters Basilica, the biggest church in the world
Today we remember how the cornerstone was laid for St Peters Basilica on the Vatican Hill outside of Rome. We look at the Egyptian...
Pearl of Great Price
- Apr 9, 2021
- 7 min
Apr 10 William Booths Salvation Army
Today we look at the remarkable story of William Booths life, how he emerged from a poor family - in the harsh landscape of a rabidly...
Pearl of Great Price
- Apr 7, 2021
- 5 min
Apr 8 Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Nazis
Today we take the dark journey back to 1945 and travel to Germany and the Flossenbürg concentration camp. The theologian Dietrich...
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
- Mar 31, 2021
- 4 min
Mar 30 Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation
Today in 1533 Thomas Cranmer was consecrated as the Archbishop of Canterbury in Westminster, London . Todays pod looks at his unlikely...
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