Feb 27 Keir Hardy, Methodism and the Labour Party
Its 1900, London. where the Trades Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party met, to form a Labour Representative Committee. This...
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Pearl of Great Price
Feb 25, 20211 min read
Feb 26 Charles Sheldon and What Would Jesus Do?
The What Would Jesus Do movement has been an effective tool in youth work, and recently commercialised and also widely lampooned as a...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 24, 20213 min read
Feb 25 Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights
Today we go back to the year 1336 and travel to Lithuania where the Teutonic Order had waged the decades-long Lithuanian Crusade against...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 24, 20213 min read
Feb 24 Francis of Assisi's conversion
Today, listening to a homily in the chapel of St. Mary of the Angels, in Portunicula, a young man named Giovanni was inspired to devote...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 22, 20211 min read
Feb 23 Handel's Messiah
Today we remember the birth of : George Frederick Handel, composer of the oratorio "Messiah," which is now one of the best-known and...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 21, 20211 min read
Feb 22 Philippine People Power
Today we remember a peaceful revolution in the Philippines which saw the end of Ferdinand Marcos 20 year rule and the key role Christian...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 21, 20211 min read
Feb 21 - World Council of Churches
Today we go back to year 1991 and travel to Canberra in Australia, and the closing of the 7th assembly of the World Council of Churches. ...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 20, 20211 min read
Feb 20 Frederick Douglass
The story of a slave, who learned to read and write by reading the Bible, and when he escaped became one of the greatest campaigners for...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 18, 20211 min read
Feb 19 A Copernican Revolution
Today in 1473 Nicolaus Copernicus was born in the Kingdom of Poland. A mathematician, astronomer, and priest - he profoundly changed the...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 17, 20211 min read
Feb 18 John Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress
Today in 1678 puritan preacher John Bunyan published an allegory called The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come....
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 16, 20211 min read
Feb 17 Ash Wednesday
Today Christians all over the world mark the first day of Lent as Ash Wednesday. The ritual of 'ashing' the forehead replaces the normal...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 15, 20211 min read
Feb 16 - Carnival, Mardi Gras and Pancake Tuesday
Today Christians around the world are preparing to enter Lent with one last blowout. Today we look at the traditions that mark this...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 14, 20211 min read
Feb 15 A Hermit from Lebanon brings faiths together
Today in 1875, a Maronite monk Charbel Makhlouf became a Hermit and entered the Hermitage of St Peter and St Paul on Mount Lebanon. It...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 13, 20211 min read
Feb 14 Who was St Valentine?
Today we try to get to the bottom of the disputed identity of St Valentine. Hi feast day was established by Pope Gelasius in 496.... but...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 12, 20211 min read
Feb 13 The Glencoe Massacre
Today we look at the brutal killing of an estimated 30 members of the MacDonald Clan by the Earl of Argyll's Regiment. Made an example...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 11, 20211 min read
Feb 12 - Pope and Patriach meet in Cuba
Today we only go back to 2016 and look at a truly historical meeting, the first time the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Moscow...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 10, 20211 min read
Feb 11 First apparition in Lourdes
We travel to France, where today when a barely literate 14-year old girl, Bernadette Soubirous told her mother that a "lady" had spoken...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Feb 10 St Paul shipwrecked in Malta
Today Christians in Malta remembers the Shipwreck of St Paul. Described in Acts of the Apostles on Pauls journey to Rome they were...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Feb 9 Unexploded Bomb in Genoa Cathedral
Today in 1941 a targeting error by a gunnery officer on board a British warship some thirteen miles offshore caused an armour-piercing...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Feb 8 Anti slavery Quaker Benjamin Lay
Todays marks the death of remarkable man, Benjamin Lay. I am not aware of any other 4ft hunchback who has changed the world in quite the...
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