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...
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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 17, 20213 min read
July 18 Birmingham City
Today we remember how 6 members of the choir from Holy Trinity Church in Bordsley, Birmingham, decided to form a football club so as to...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 13, 20218 min read
July 13 C.S Lewis - A Grief Observed
Today we remember how the wife of C.S. Lewis died from cancer. Clive Staples Lewis was ranked eleventh on the Times newspaper list of...
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 21, 20214 min read
June 16 John Henry Newman and Lead Kindly Light
In 1833 the young Anglican priest John Henry Newman, while traveling on a ship from Italy to France, wrote the words to the hymn, “Lead...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 4, 20213 min read
June 5 The Sermon that inspired the Riot Act
Rev Henry Sacheverell had become famous in England for preaching an incendiary sermon on the 5 November. In his impeachment trial by the...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 9, 20217 min read
Apr 10 William Booths Salvation Army
Today we look at the remarkable story of William Booths life, how he emerged from a poor family - in the harsh landscape of a rabidly...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 2, 20214 min read
Apr 3 Richard of Chichester
Today we go back to 1253 where we remember the death of Richard of Chichester. An interesting figure who stood out for his loyalty and...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 31, 20214 min read
Mar 31 John Donne : Pre-eminent Metaphysical Poet
Today we remember the birth of John Donne in 1572, considered now to be the preeminent metaphysical poet of his time. A group that also...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Mar 2 The Death of John Wesley
Today in 1791 we remember the death of John Wesley in London. An Anglican priest and theologian, he was described as the best-loved man...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20214 min read
Jan 27 - Dante exiled from Florence
Today in 1302, we remember how the Italian poet Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence. In exile Date wrote the celebrated work The...
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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