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Pearl of Great Price
Mar 31, 20213 min read
Apr 1 - The Last Supper
Today we remember the foundation Christian meal of the Last Supper. Looking at Colin Humphrey's research we can historically date it to...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 31, 20214 min read
Mar 31 John Donne : Pre-eminent Metaphysical Poet
Today we remember the birth of John Donne in 1572, considered now to be the preeminent metaphysical poet of his time. A group that also...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 31, 20214 min read
Mar 30 Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation
Today in 1533 Thomas Cranmer was consecrated as the Archbishop of Canterbury in Westminster, London . Todays pod looks at his unlikely...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 28, 20214 min read
Mar 29 The Foundling Hospital in London
Today we remember how Thomas Coram, an English naval captain started the Foundling Hospital for abandoned children in 1751 in London....
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 27, 20213 min read
Mar 28 AshBarrell Jimmie and the US Salvation Army
Today in 1885 the Salvation Army was officially organized in the USA, a year later it was endorsed by President Grover Cleveland. We look...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 26, 20213 min read
Mar 27 Meister Eckharts eco-mysticism
Today in 1329 Pope John XXII issued a bull condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. In todays pod we look at his...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 26, 20213 min read
Mar 26 The mixed legacy of Ravi Zacharias
Today in 1946 in Madras, India controversial Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias was born. He inspired a generation of apologists and...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 26, 20213 min read
Mar 25 The emperor who became a monk
Today in 717 we travel to Constantinople when Emperor Theodosius III abdicated and retired to a monastery with his son. In the podcast...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 23, 20214 min read
Mar 24 Papal Inderdicts and Magna Carta
Today in 1208 Pope Innocent III placed an interdict on the whole of England prohibiting clergy from conducting religious services. It...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 22, 20214 min read
Mar 23 The Football League & William McGregor
Today in Andertons Hotel in Fleet Street, London, a meeting was held which led to the formation of the football league. Organised by a...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 22, 20213 min read
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 21, 20214 min read
Mar 21 - Papier Mache Papal Tiara
Today in an extra-ordinary ceremony Pius VII was crowned Pope in a Benedictine Monastery with a temporary papal tiara made of...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 18, 20213 min read
Mar 20 Death of Cuthbert in Lindisfarne
Today we go back to year 687 and travel to Lindisfarne in the North of England and remember the life of St Cuthbert who died today....
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 18, 20213 min read
Mar 19 The Worlds Bloodiest Civil War - Taiping
Today we remember how in 1860 the Taiping rebels succeeded in taking the city of Hangzhou in China, in what would become the bloodiest...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 17, 20213 min read
Mar 18 Charles Spurgeon 'Prince amongst preachers'
Today in 1861 the famous Baptist preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon moved his growing congregation to the Metropolitan Tabernacle in...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 16, 20213 min read
Mar 17 The Mormon Relief Society
On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1842 and travel to Illinois when today the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 16, 20213 min read
Mar 16 Founding of the Red Cross
Today we travel to Washington where the Senate ratified the first Geneva Convention of 1864, legitimatizing the International Red Cross...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 15, 20213 min read
Mar 15 Cardinal Manning & Catholic Social Teaching
Today in 1875, Henry Edward Manning was made a cardinal at a consistory convoked by Pope Pius IX, and unusually for Cardinals in the...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 13, 20213 min read
Mar 14 Dr Livingstone I Presume
On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1871 and travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa where today the...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 12, 20213 min read
Mar 13 Rev John Harvard and his university
Today we remember how Harvard College was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It...
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