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'...
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Pearl of Great Price
Sep 15, 20215 min read
Sep 10 Jung, Religion and the Collective Unconscious
Today at Yale University, Carl Jung’s Terry lectures on Psychology and Religion were published. He had delivered the lectures in 1938...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 2, 20214 min read
Sep 1 Fr Dowling's Spiritual Exercises and the AA movement
Edward Dowling was born today in 1898. He would be ordained a priest and become the advisor to Bill Wilson who founded Alcoholic...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 29, 20218 min read
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, 20213 min read
Aug 21 Adam Gifford and the Gifford Lectures
Its 1885, we are in Scotland, where today Lord Adam Giffords’ will was finalised. A large part of his substantial fortune made from a...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 27, 20213 min read
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 7, 20215 min read
Aug 8 Soren Kierkegaard's Leap of Faith
The father of Soren Kierkergaard died today age 82. Kierkegaard wrote in his diary: "My father died on Wednesday (the 8th) at 2:00 a.m. I...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 2, 20215 min read
Aug 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 Price
Jul 22, 20215 min read
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
Jun 8, 20217 min read
June 9 Terese of Liseux - The Story of a Soul
At the age of 14, on Christmas Eve in 1886, Therese had a conversion that transformed her life. From then on, her powerful energy and...
Pearl of Great Price
May 12, 20215 min read
May 13 The Shooting of John Paul II
Today we remember an assassination attempt that shocked the world. Its 1981, the last years of the Cold War, and the early years of the...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 11, 20213 min read
Mar 12 George Berkley, Philosophy and America
Today in Ireland in 1685 Anglican bishop and philosopher George Berkeley was born. His philosophy is sometimes referred to as idealism...
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