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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 22, 20215 min read
Oct 6 Tennyson - Faith and Doubt In Memoriam
Queen Victoria, the longest reigning British monarch, after the death of her beloved Prince Albert was undergoing prolonged and painful...
Pearl of Great Price
Oct 18, 20214 min read
Oct 5 Uganda -Ecumenism of Blood
Today Christians took control of the government after enduring years of persecution which had triggered a rebellion. The victory was in...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 28, 20213 min read
Sep 22 Mega-funerals - Brother Bakht Sing
Today in 2000 we travel to Hyderabad, India where a quarter of a million Christians clogged the streets, to pay their final respects to...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 26, 20214 min read
Sep 19 George Hebert - poet of the moderate centre
Today in 1630 the Welsh-born poet, George Herbert was ordained a priest in the Church of England, spending the rest of his life as the...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 28, 20213 min read
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 20, 20213 min read
Aug 19 The Moabite Stone & the Exodus
Its 1868 and we are in Jordan where late in the afternoon during a coffee break, the sheikh of the Banî Hamîdi tribe informed the German...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 6, 20214 min read
Aug 4 Dr Grenfell in Labrador & the Seafarers Mission
Today we travel to Labrador in Canada where Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell arrived on the remote Canadian Atlantic coast to work with colonists...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 17, 20213 min read
July 18 Birmingham City
Today we remember how 6 members of the choir from Holy Trinity Church in Bordsley, Birmingham, decided to form a football club so as to...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 13, 20218 min read
July 13 C.S Lewis - A Grief Observed
Today we remember how the wife of C.S. Lewis died from cancer. Clive Staples Lewis was ranked eleventh on the Times newspaper list of...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 27, 20213 min read
June 28 Monsignor Benson's Lord of the World
Today in 1906 Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson finished his dystopian science fiction novel called Lord of the World that centres upon the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 21, 20213 min read
June 17 The Tolpuddle Martyrs
George Loveless, a ploughman, community leader and Methodist preacher returned from exile today in 1837, from what was then known as Van...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 21, 20214 min read
June 16 John Henry Newman and Lead Kindly Light
In 1833 the young Anglican priest John Henry Newman, while traveling on a ship from Italy to France, wrote the words to the hymn, “Lead...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 5, 20213 min read
June 6 John Polkinghorne - Science & Religion
Today we remember how in 1982 and travel to where the theoretical physicist John Polkinghorne was ordained an Anglican priest in...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 4, 20213 min read
June 5 The Sermon that inspired the Riot Act
Rev Henry Sacheverell had become famous in England for preaching an incendiary sermon on the 5 November. In his impeachment trial by the...
Pearl of Great Price
May 28, 20214 min read
May 29 G.K.Chesterton's quest for orthodoxy
One of the greatest writers in the English language at the beginning of the 20th Century. On an intense spiritual journey that took him...
Pearl of Great Price
May 26, 20213 min read
May 27 The oldest continuing legal system
The Body of Canon law is historically continuous from the early church to the present, and such can claim to be the oldest functioning...
Pearl of Great Price
May 24, 20216 min read
May 25 The Ecumenical Imperative
it’s the 25th of May and on this day in Christian History we go back to year 1995 and travel to Rome where Ut Unum Sint, the first...
Pearl of Great Price
May 19, 20213 min read
May 20 I believe ...... The Council of Nicea
Today we remember the first Ecumenical Council of the Church. It is now famous for its Christian statement of belief that is widely used...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 30, 20213 min read
May 1 The Death of David Livingstone
Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone was one of the most popular figures in Late Victorian Britain. His legacy is striking,...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 26, 20217 min read
Apr 26 William Shakespeare's Baptism and hidden messages
Today we remember the earliest record we have of William Shakespeares life - April 26th 1564 the day he was baptised in the Holy Trinity...
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