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Pearl of Great Price
Apr 24, 20213 min read
Apr 25 Barnsley FC & Muscular Christianity
Today we remember the life and death of the English clergyman Tiverton Preedy. The founder of Barnsley FC, winners of the FA Cup in 1912,...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 22, 20213 min read
Apr 23 St George, Windsor and the Order of the Garter
Recently many British Royal Weddings and Funerals have occurred in St Georges Chapel in Windsor, outside of London. It is also the home...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 14, 20215 min read
Apr 15 Mandela & Truth and Reconciliation
The achievement of nation building in South Africa has been a beacon and sign of hope for the international community. At a time when...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 9, 20217 min read
Apr 10 William Booths Salvation Army
Today we look at the remarkable story of William Booths life, how he emerged from a poor family - in the harsh landscape of a rabidly...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 9, 20214 min read
Apr 9 Encyclicals
Today in 475 the Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus releases an Enkyklikon, a circular letter to the bishops of his empire about the...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 7, 20215 min read
Apr 8 Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Nazis
Today we take the dark journey back to 1945 and travel to Germany and the Flossenbürg concentration camp. The theologian Dietrich...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 3, 20213 min read
Apr 4 Easter Sunday
Today in the West, Christians celebrate Easter, the touchstone of the Christian Faith. In todays reflection we look at the boldness of...
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 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 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 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 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 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
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...
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 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 2, 20213 min read
Feb 2 - Candlemas
Today Christians all over the world celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the temple. In the Spanish Speaking world the...
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