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Pearl of Great Price
Mar 11, 20213 min read
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 10, 20213 min read
Mar 11 William Carey's fire in Serampore
On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1812 and travel to West Bengal in India. Today a fire broke out in missionary...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 9, 20214 min read
Mar 10 Confessing to shooting Martin Luther King
Today in 1969, James A Ray confessed to the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King. He had been arrested two months after...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 8, 20213 min read
Mar 9 Sebaste Martyrs - frozen to death
Its 320, the final years of the Roman Empire and we travel to Turkey, remembering how today 40 Roman Soldiers froze to death rather than...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 8, 20213 min read
Mar 8 Reagan's Evil Empire
Today in 1983 in Orlando, Florida, American president Ronald Reagan in an address to the National Association of Evangelicals used the...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 8, 20213 min read
Mar 7 The New Rite
Today, Pope Paul VI celebrated the first Mass in Italian (rather than Latin) , facing the people, at the church of All Saints in the Via...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 6, 20216 min read
Mar 6 Michelangelo
Michelangelo was born today, in 1474. His achievements as a sculptor, painter, architect and poet mean that he is often considered to be...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 4, 20212 min read
Mar 5 Roger Williams and American Baptists
Today in 1631 on Rhode Island the first Baptist church in America was established by Roger Williams, a Puritan minister born in London. ...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 3, 20212 min read
Mar 4 Williams Penn's Holy Experiment - Philadelphia and Pennsylvania
Today in 1681, King Charles II handed over a large piece of his North American land holdings to William Penn in order to pay off debts to...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Mar 3 The First Concordance
Today we go back to year 1263 and look at the pioneering work of the Dominican Cardinal Hugh of Saint-Cher. Producing the first...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Mar 2 The Death of John Wesley
Today in 1791 we remember the death of John Wesley in London. An Anglican priest and theologian, he was described as the best-loved man...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 2, 20212 min read
Mar 1 Anglo Chinese Schools & Bishop
Today we and travel to Singapore and the 1886 and remember the founding of the first Anglo-Chinese school by Bishop William Fitzjames...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 2, 20212 min read
Feb 28 Victorian Slum Priest Charles Lowder
Today we go back to year 1855 and the founding of the Society of the Holy Cross in Soho, London, by six Anglican priests lead by Charles...
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