May 21 Attacking the Pieta
Today in St Peters, Rome, a 33 year old man called Lazlo Toth, wielding a geologist's hammer shouted, "I am Jesus Christ — risen from the...
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Pearl of Great Price
May 18, 20213 min read
May 19 Alcuin of York, innovator of the Capital Letter
Alcuin was one of the greatest minds of the Eight Century. Spearheading the educational reform of the Court of Charlemagne, he advanced...
Pearl of Great Price
May 17, 20213 min read
May 18 The Kidnapping of a Megachurch founder
Canadian Aimee Semple McPherson was a pioneer of evangelism. Faith-healer, founder of the Foursquare Gospel Church and builder of the...
Pearl of Great Price
May 16, 20213 min read
May 17 Marquette Mapping the Mississippi
We remember the historical expedition of missionary Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, a French-Canadian explorer to explore the...
Pearl of Great Price
May 15, 20215 min read
May 16 Did Brendan discover N. America 1000 years before Columbus?
A book known as Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot) full of exploration, religious symbolism, and...
Pearl of Great Price
May 14, 20216 min read
May 15 The Pope, Workers Rights and Rerum Novarum
Seen by many as the start of Catholic Social teaching - this encyclical of Leo XIII has the unique distinction of being followed by two...
Pearl of Great Price
May 13, 20213 min read
May 14 Salem's Witch Trials
The town of Salem in Massachusetts witnessed an outbreak of 'Witch Trials' that lead to the execution of 19 people and destroyed the...
Pearl of Great Price
May 10, 20213 min read
May 11 Irish Monasticism
Today we mark the death of Comgall in the 7th Century and the birth of Irish Monasticism which developed some important distinctive...
Pearl of Great Price
May 10, 20215 min read
May 10 Karl Barth, influential Protestant Theologian
Karl Barth the most influential Protestant theologian of the 20th century was born on May 10th 1886. A leader of the 'Confessing Church'...
Pearl of Great Price
May 5, 20214 min read
May 6 The Ghent Altarpiece - the most stolen work of art
Its been described as the most stolen piece of art, the first great oil painting of the Northern Renaissance. A complex multi-panelled...
Pearl of Great Price
May 4, 20213 min read
May 4 Dividing the 'New World'
Today we remember how in 1493 Pope Alexander VI, in an age of exploration divided the 'New World' between Spain and Portugal. Giving the...
Pearl of Great Price
May 2, 20215 min read
May 3 The Mark of the Beast and Seventh Day Adventists
The Book of Revelation and its prophesies about the end times has been a favourite theme for conspiracy theorists. Particularly the Sign...
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 28, 20217 min read
Apr 29 The Visions of Joan of Arc
Today the fascinating figure of Joan of Arc broke the siege of Orleans in 1429 and possibly delivered France from English domination. A...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 27, 20213 min read
Apr 28 After the Mutiny on the Bounty
The story of the Mutiny is famous and well known but how did it end? Today we look at the story of the surviving mutineer George Adams...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 27, 20213 min read
Apr 27 Milton's Paradise Lost
Today the Puritan poet John Milton sold for ten pounds the copyright of his epic poem Paradise Lost. This lament, written after Cromwell...
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...
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 21, 20213 min read
Apr 22 'In God we Trust' and coins in the USA
Today in 1864 the Coinage Act was passed in Washington DC of this law, the phrase "In God We Trust" first appeared, on the two-cent coin...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 20, 20213 min read
Apr 21 Eagleton v Dawkins - Dwight H Terry Lectures
In 2009 the British literary theorist, Terry Eagleton, gave a lecture series titled Faith and Fundamentalism: Is belief in Richard...
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