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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
Oct 18, 20213 min read
Oct 3 Zionism in Africa and John Alexander Dowie
Today we look at the figure of John Alexander Dowie suffered from a stroke in Chicago on Oct 3rd. Dowie was a Scottish / Australian...


Pearl of Great Price
Sep 14, 20213 min read
Sep 7 The Jos Riots
Today we travel to central Nigeria where in the city of Jos terrible riots began today between Christians and Muslims. They were to last...


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
Jul 14, 20215 min read
July 15 - Nanette, the velvet brick and mother of slaves
We remember an extraordinary French woman Anne-Marie Javouhey, often known as Nanette. who died today at the age of 72. One of her last...


Pearl of Great Price
Jul 10, 20213 min read
July 10 Cardinal Richelieu and the French Academy
Its 1637 and we are in Paris where at Cardinal Richelieu's urging, King Louis XIII granted letters patent formally establishing a council...


Pearl of Great Price
Jul 8, 20213 min read
July 9 Brazil, a Papal stampede and Dom Helder Camara
Today in 1980 some people died in a stampede trying to get in to see Pope John Paul II in a soccer stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil. The...


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
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 23, 20216 min read
Apr 24 Baptism of St Augustine
Today we remember how Augustine of Hippo was baptised by Ambrose in Milan as a 33 year old man - a 'late convert'. His writings and his...


Pearl of Great Price
Mar 13, 20213 min read
Mar 14 Dr Livingstone I Presume
On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1871 and travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa where today the...


Pearl of Great Price
Jan 29, 20214 min read
Jan 14 - Albert Schweitzer Born
Today in 1875, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Theologian and Missionary, Albert Schweitzer was born. We look at his remarkable life and mixed...


Pearl of Great Price
Jan 29, 20212 min read
Jan 13 - Mary Slessor and Twins
Today's pod looks at the life of a remarkable Scottish Woman, who dedicated her life to saving twins from infanticide amongst the Okoyong...


Pearl of Great Price
Jan 29, 20212 min read
Jan 12 Digging up the Bible
Today in 1897 we remember an amazing discovery in ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt. Two English archaeologists, Bernard...
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