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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...

Sep 9 - Michael Novak, Theology of Capital

Michael Novak would become the author of more than forty books on the philosophy and theology of culture, and was most famous for the...

Sep 8 Worshipping God through discovering Genes

Today in 1989 the journal Science published the results of the work of Francis Collins who identified the gene which explained cystic...

Aug 29 Faraday discovers Electricity

Today the great experimentalist Michael Faraday induced the first electrical current. Faraday would later use the principles he had...

Aug 23 The Violent death of Brother Roger of Taizé

Today we travel to Taizé in France where today in 2005 the founder of the world famous ecumenical community was buried days after he had...

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...

July 8 John Templeton and the Templeton Prize

Today we travel to the Bahamas and remember the death of Sir John Mark Templeton at the age of 95. The year before he died, Templeton...

June 6 John Polkinghorne - Science & Religion

Today we remember how in 1982 and travel to where the theoretical physicist John Polkinghorne was ordained an Anglican priest in...

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