Aug 31 - Grunewald, Artist of the Crucifixion
Today we remember the German Renaissance painter Matthias Grunewald who died in 1528. Now famous for his religious art that display...
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Pearl of Great Price
Aug 30, 20214 min read
Aug 30 The Rev Chambers, Everton & Liverpool
Today we travel to Yorkshire in the north of England where Ben Swift Chambers was born in 1845. He would become a Methodist minister and...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 30, 20214 min read
Aug 29 Faraday discovers Electricity
Today the great experimentalist Michael Faraday induced the first electrical current. Faraday would later use the principles he had...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 30, 20213 min read
Aug 28 Medellin & Liberation Theology
Today we go back to year 1968 and travel to Medellin in Colombia, were the Second Latin American bishops' conference opened as a...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 29, 20213 min read
Aug 27 The first businessman to be declared a saint?
Today it's 1962 and we travel to Argentina where Enrique Ernesto Shaw, the Founder of the Christian Association of Business Executives...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 29, 20218 min read
Aug 26 Nietzsche and the 'murder' of God
Today in 1900 the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche died. The last ten years of his life had been filled with unhappiness...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 28, 20213 min read
Apr 25 Ivan the Terrible's Monk
Today in 1549, Adrian of Ondrusov, an Orthodox monk died after being killed by robbers. Now venerated by the Orthodox church as a saint,...
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 27, 20214 min read
Aug 23 The Violent death of Brother Roger of Taizé
Today we travel to Taizé in France where today in 2005 the founder of the world famous ecumenical community was buried days after he had...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 27, 20216 min read
Aug 22 De Lubac & Spiritual Worldliness
Today we travel to Lyon where the French Jesuit, Henri De Lubac was ordained a priest in 1927. Earlie in his training, the French ...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 27, 20213 min read
Aug 21 Adam Gifford and the Gifford Lectures
Its 1885, we are in Scotland, where today Lord Adam Giffords’ will was finalised. A large part of his substantial fortune made from a...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 27, 20213 min read
August 20 Bultmann and Demythologisation
Today we travel to Germany where the influential Lutheran theologian Rudolf Karl Bultmann was born in 1884. One of the pioneers of the...
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 20, 20214 min read
Aug 18 Filming the Exorcist
Today in Washington the principal photography for The Exorcist began. The film would win two Oscars and become the first horror film to...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 20, 20214 min read
Aug 17 Excavating Armageddon
Today we travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Clarence Stanley Fisher was born in 1876. He would devote his life to Near Eastern...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 17, 20213 min read
Aug 16 Operation Baptism
Today we got to 1944 Hungary where a dispatch from Angelo Roncalli to the papal nuncio in Hungary illustrated the intensity of...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 17, 20213 min read
Aug 15 Cologne Cathedral - 632 years in the making
Today in 1880 Cologne Cathedral was finished. It was Germany's largest cathedral and for four years it was the tallest building in the...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 14, 20214 min read
Aug 14 Maximillian Kolbe
Today in Poland, the Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz....
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 14, 20214 min read
Aug 13 James Joyce, Faith and Ulysees
We travel to 1903 Dublin , Ireland were the Irish novelist and poet, James Joyce returned to Ireland from studies in Paris when his...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 12, 20213 min read
Aug 12 Golden Roses & Aparecida
Today in 1967 Pope Paul VI granted a Golden rose to Aparecida Cathedral in Brazil. The Golden Rose is an ornament, which popes have...
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