Oct 3 Zionism in Africa and John Alexander Dowie
Today we look at the figure of John Alexander Dowie suffered from a stroke in Chicago on Oct 3rd. Dowie was a Scottish / Australian...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 2, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 26 Abraham Lincolns call for prayer and fasting
1861 and travel to Washington DC in North America where today President Abraham Lincoln recommended a day of public humiliation, prayer,...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 25, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 18 Rev George Macdonald and Goblins
Today we remember the death in 1905 of the Scottish clergyman George MacDonald who wrote novels to support himself. He is best remembered...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 15, 2021
- 5 min
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...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 2, 2021
- 4 min
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 6, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 3 Christopher Columbus
Today at dawn the Santa MarÃa and its companion boats commenced the historic voyage which will bring Europeans to America. The...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 27, 2021
- 5 min
July 25 Left Behind, the Rapture & Armageddon
Today in 2016 in San Diego, the American Baptist pastor and author Tim LaHaye, died aged 90. He will be remembered as the author of the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 22, 2021
- 4 min
July 20 Buzz Aldrin takes communion on the Moon
The astronaut Buzz Aldrin took communion on the surface of the moon after landing successfully with the Apollo 11 mission. This was the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 7, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 6, 2021
- 6 min
July 7 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Repenting in the Gulag
The Russian writer Alexander Solzenhitsyn was sentenced in his absence to an eight year term in a labour camp in Siberia. He would be...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 30, 2021
- 3 min
July 1 The Boxer Uprising leads the first martyr from Yale
American missionary Horace Tracy Pitkin was beheaded when a mob burst into his Mission compound as part of the Boxer Uprising. This was...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 29, 2021
- 3 min
June 30 Mother Noella - World Expert in Cheese Making
Today we travel to Connecticut in the USA where Martha A. Marcellino was born in 1951. She is now known as Mother Noella Marcellino, a...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 21, 2021
- 3 min
June 22 The First Native North American Saint
Today we remember the beatification of Kateri Takakwitha, a Mohawk woman. Born in 1656 in what is now New York state, she belonged to...
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 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 10, 2021
- 6 min
June 11 The Emmy winning Bishop - Fulton Sheen
Fulton Sheen was consecrated a bishop on June 11, 1951. A charismatic speaker and pioneer of religious media in the 20th century, he...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 4, 2021
- 3 min
June 4 Silencing Prayer in Schools
A landmark case that started in 1982 found that it was not allowed to have a minutes silence in Alabama Schools. Bitterly fought it went...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jun 2, 2021
- 5 min
June 3 Hitler's Pope?
Today in 1946 Pope Pius XII was declared on Moscow radio to have been ‘Hitlers Pope’. Thirty years later, the head of Romania's spy...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 27, 2021
- 3 min
May 28 William Cogate and Tithing
Today we go back to year 1795 and travel to Baltimore where, a young William Colgate arrived in the US and settled in Harford County,...
Pearl of Great Price
- May 17, 2021
- 3 min
May 18 The Kidnapping of a Megachurch founder
Canadian Aimee Semple McPherson was a pioneer of evangelism. Faith-healer, founder of the Foursquare Gospel Church and builder of the...
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