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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...

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 24 Start of Non-conformism

On Aug 24th in 1662 the deadline arrived for all Christian Ministers to assent to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. 2000 Puritans...

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...

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...

Apr 21 Eagleton v Dawkins - Dwight H Terry Lectures

In 2009 the British literary theorist, Terry Eagleton, gave a lecture series titled Faith and Fundamentalism: Is belief in Richard...

Mar 22 - The Great Awakening & Jonathan Edwards

Today we remember the revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards who died today in 1758. His legacy is significant and the ripples from his...

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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