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...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 6, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 4 Dr Grenfell in Labrador & the Seafarers Mission
Today we travel to Labrador in Canada where Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell arrived on the remote Canadian Atlantic coast to work with colonists...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 2, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 1 The Vikings, Bluetooth and Ethewold
Ethelwold of Winchester died today. After the spiritual damage left by Danish invasions, caused by relentless raids on monasteries,...
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
- Jun 27, 2021
- 3 min
June 28 Monsignor Benson's Lord of the World
Today in 1906 Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson finished his dystopian science fiction novel called Lord of the World that centres upon the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 21, 2021
- 3 min
June 19 Acton - Power Corrupts, Absolute Power corrupts absolutely
Today in 1902 Lord Acton died. John Acton was the English Catholic historian, died in Bavaria, Germany. Now famous for his saying...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 21, 2021
- 3 min
June 17 The Tolpuddle Martyrs
George Loveless, a ploughman, community leader and Methodist preacher returned from exile today in 1837, from what was then known as Van...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 14, 2021
- 3 min
June 15 Archbishop Stephen Langton and Magna Carta
The energetic leadership and conciliatory skills of Archbishop Stephen Langton forced King John to grant his seal to Magna Carta at...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 13, 2021
- 5 min
June 14 The Hungarian church bravely defies the Communists
Today we remember how church bells rung out, bravely, around the country in defiance of the Communist party in Hungary who had severely...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 5, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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 28, 2021
- 4 min
May 29 G.K.Chesterton's quest for orthodoxy
One of the greatest writers in the English language at the beginning of the 20th Century. On an intense spiritual journey that took him...
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
- May 22, 2021
- 3 min
May 23 The Baptist Slave rebellion in Jamaica
Samuel Sharpe was hanged today in Jamaica for his role in organising as slave uprising referred to by historians as 'The Baptist War'. ...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 12, 2021
- 5 min
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
- May 10, 2021
- 3 min
May 11 Irish Monasticism
Today we mark the death of Comgall in the 7th Century and the birth of Irish Monasticism which developed some important distinctive...
Pearl of Great Price
- Apr 27, 2021
- 3 min
Apr 28 After the Mutiny on the Bounty
The story of the Mutiny is famous and well known but how did it end? Today we look at the story of the surviving mutineer George Adams...
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,...
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