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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 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...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 19, 20213 min read
Apr 20 Angelo Secchi, Spectroscopy and the Papal Yacht
Today the Vaticans astronomer Fr Angelo Secchi came aboard the papal yacht on the Azure waters of the Mediterranean to demonstrate his...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 5, 20213 min read
Apr 5 St Laura Vicuna and domestic abuse
Today in 1891, Laura Carmen Vicuna was born the daughter of Joseph Dominic Vicuña and Mercedes Pino in Santiago de Chile. Living a short...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 3, 20213 min read
Apr 4 Easter Sunday
Today in the West, Christians celebrate Easter, the touchstone of the Christian Faith. In todays reflection we look at the boldness of...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 31, 20213 min read
Apr 1 - The Last Supper
Today we remember the foundation Christian meal of the Last Supper. Looking at Colin Humphrey's research we can historically date it to...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 28, 20214 min read
Mar 29 The Foundling Hospital in London
Today we remember how Thomas Coram, an English naval captain started the Foundling Hospital for abandoned children in 1751 in London....
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 16, 20213 min read
Mar 17 The Mormon Relief Society
On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1842 and travel to Illinois when today the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 12, 20213 min read
Mar 13 Rev John Harvard and his university
Today we remember how Harvard College was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 10, 20213 min read
Mar 11 William Carey's fire in Serampore
On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1812 and travel to West Bengal in India. Today a fire broke out in missionary...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 9, 20214 min read
Mar 10 Confessing to shooting Martin Luther King
Today in 1969, James A Ray confessed to the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King. He had been arrested two months after...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Mar 3 The First Concordance
Today we go back to year 1263 and look at the pioneering work of the Dominican Cardinal Hugh of Saint-Cher. Producing the first...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 2, 20212 min read
Mar 1 Anglo Chinese Schools & Bishop
Today we and travel to Singapore and the 1886 and remember the founding of the first Anglo-Chinese school by Bishop William Fitzjames...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 2, 20212 min read
Feb 28 Victorian Slum Priest Charles Lowder
Today we go back to year 1855 and the founding of the Society of the Holy Cross in Soho, London, by six Anglican priests lead by Charles...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 27, 20212 min read
Feb 27 Keir Hardy, Methodism and the Labour Party
Its 1900, London. where the Trades Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party met, to form a Labour Representative Committee. This...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 25, 20211 min read
Feb 26 Charles Sheldon and What Would Jesus Do?
The What Would Jesus Do movement has been an effective tool in youth work, and recently commercialised and also widely lampooned as a...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 20, 20211 min read
Feb 20 Frederick Douglass
The story of a slave, who learned to read and write by reading the Bible, and when he escaped became one of the greatest campaigners for...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 10, 20211 min read
Feb 11 First apparition in Lourdes
We travel to France, where today when a barely literate 14-year old girl, Bernadette Soubirous told her mother that a "lady" had spoken...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 6, 20213 min read
Feb 6 Cristeros War
Today we go back to year 1927 and remember the death of Matteo Correa Magallanes an innocent Victim of Mexico's Cristeros War. An...
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