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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...

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...

Jul 5, 20218 min read

July 6 Mircea Eliade and the Eternal Return

Today we look at the life and thought of Mircea Eliade a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at...

Jun 21, 20213 min read

June 21 The Man who wanted to feed the world

Today in 1834 in Chicago, Cyrus McCormick, a Christian inventor died. He patented the world’s first workable agricultural reaper,...

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...

Apr 17, 20216 min read

Apr 18 St Peters Basilica, the biggest church in the world

Today we remember how the cornerstone was laid for St Peters Basilica on the Vatican Hill outside of Rome. We look at the Egyptian...

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