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Oct 22, 20215 min read

Oct 8 Japans Shindler's List

Mrs. Yukiko Sugihara, who had helped her husband, Chiune, rescue thousands of Jews from Lithuania during World War II. They were a...

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...

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...

Jul 27, 20215 min read

July 25 Left Behind, the Rapture & Armageddon

Today in 2016 in San Diego, the American Baptist pastor and author Tim LaHaye, died aged 90. He will be remembered as the author of the...

Jul 4, 20213 min read

July 5 Thomas Cook transforms temperance into tourism

Today we travel to Leicester in England where Thomas Cook organised his first rail excursion for a day out to Loughborough. 500 people...

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. ...

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