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Pearl of Great Price
Aug 28, 20213 min read
Aug 24 Start of Non-conformism
On Aug 24th in 1662 the deadline arrived for all Christian Ministers to assent to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. 2000 Puritans...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 21, 20214 min read
June 20 Fr George Lemaitre and the Big Bang
The pioneering priest and physicist George Lemaitre died today. He is famous for proposing the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the...
Pearl of Great Price
May 17, 20213 min read
May 18 The Kidnapping of a Megachurch founder
Canadian Aimee Semple McPherson was a pioneer of evangelism. Faith-healer, founder of the Foursquare Gospel Church and builder of the...
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
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 8, 20211 min read
Feb 8 Anti slavery Quaker Benjamin Lay
Todays marks the death of remarkable man, Benjamin Lay. I am not aware of any other 4ft hunchback who has changed the world in quite the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20215 min read
Jan 30 - Cromwell and the day of two Executions
Today in 1661 the puritan, Oliver Cromwell, and former Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, was ritually executed more than two...
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