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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 12, 20215 min read
Sep 28 The Obelisk that 'witnessed' St Peters Death
We go back to year 1586 and travel to Rome where a large pink granite obelisk known as "The Witness", was moved to its present location...


Pearl of Great Price
Sep 28, 20213 min read
Sep 22 Mega-funerals - Brother Bakht Sing
Today in 2000 we travel to Hyderabad, India where a quarter of a million Christians clogged the streets, to pay their final respects to...


Pearl of Great Price
Sep 20, 20216 min read
Sep 12 Richard Challoner - leading under pressure
Richard Challoner would become the leading figure of English Catholicism for the greater part of the eighteenth century. He was bright...


Pearl of Great Price
Sep 8, 20214 min read
Sep 3 The Heliand - Old Norse Epic Poem about the life of Christ
Today in 1830 the first complete edition of the Heliand was published by Johann Andreas Schmeller. This was a ninth century epic poem...


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
May 31, 20214 min read
June 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls
A Bedouin shepherd throwing a stone into a cave on the shore of the Dead Sea was puzzled by the cracking sound within. Investigating he...


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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