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...
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Pearl of Great Price
Aug 20, 20214 min read
Aug 18 Filming the Exorcist
Today in Washington the principal photography for The Exorcist began. The film would win two Oscars and become the first horror film to...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 6, 20215 min read
Aug 5 Bill W & Alcoholics Anonymous
Today in 1934 Bill Wilson was lying in Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City under the care of Dr....
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 7, 20213 min read
July 8 John Templeton and the Templeton Prize
Today we travel to the Bahamas and remember the death of Sir John Mark Templeton at the age of 95. The year before he died, Templeton...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 30, 20213 min read
July 1 The Boxer Uprising leads the first martyr from Yale
American missionary Horace Tracy Pitkin was beheaded when a mob burst into his Mission compound as part of the Boxer Uprising. This was...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 29, 20213 min read
June 30 Mother Noella - World Expert in Cheese Making
Today we travel to Connecticut in the USA where Martha A. Marcellino was born in 1951. She is now known as Mother Noella Marcellino, a...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 26, 20215 min read
June 27 Rene Girard - Mimetic Desire & the Scapegoat
year 2008 and travel to St Andrews in Scotland were the French polymath, Rene Girard was given honorary degree at St Andrews. Beginning...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 23, 20215 min read
June 24 The last 'crusade' of Billy Graham
It was in Flushing Meadows in New York where the American evangelist Billy Graham today began what he said would be his last North...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 22, 20213 min read
June 23 Walter Ciszek - With God in Russia
Today in 1941 we travel to Russia where the American Jesuit Walter J. Ciszek was arrested under suspicion of being a spy for the Vatican...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 21, 20213 min read
June 22 The First Native North American Saint
Today we remember the beatification of Kateri Takakwitha, a Mohawk woman. Born in 1656 in what is now New York state, she belonged to...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 10, 20216 min read
June 11 The Emmy winning Bishop - Fulton Sheen
Fulton Sheen was consecrated a bishop on June 11, 1951. A charismatic speaker and pioneer of religious media in the 20th century, he...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 6, 20218 min read
June 7 Antoni Gaudi and the Sagrada Familia
The great basilica of the Sagrada Familia is linked to one man, the genius, mystic and ascetic Antoni Gaudi. We look at the remarkable...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 1, 20213 min read
June 2 Anthony De Mello
A Jesuit priest from India and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality, integrating ancient eastern...
Pearl of Great Price
May 27, 20213 min read
May 28 William Cogate and Tithing
Today we go back to year 1795 and travel to Baltimore where, a young William Colgate arrived in the US and settled in Harford County,...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 7, 20215 min read
Apr 8 Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Nazis
Today we take the dark journey back to 1945 and travel to Germany and the Flossenbürg concentration camp. The theologian Dietrich...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 27, 20213 min read
Mar 28 AshBarrell Jimmie and the US Salvation Army
Today in 1885 the Salvation Army was officially organized in the USA, a year later it was endorsed by President Grover Cleveland. We look...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 3, 20212 min read
Mar 4 Williams Penn's Holy Experiment - Philadelphia and Pennsylvania
Today in 1681, King Charles II handed over a large piece of his North American land holdings to William Penn in order to pay off debts to...
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...
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