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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 22, 20216 min read
Oct 7 - Mother Teresa founds her order
Today in 1950, Mother Teresa founded the religious order the Missionaries of Charity. Today she received permission from the Holy See to...


Pearl of Great Price
Sep 15, 20215 min read
Sep 9 - Michael Novak, Theology of Capital
Michael Novak would become the author of more than forty books on the philosophy and theology of culture, and was most famous for the...


Pearl of Great Price
Sep 14, 20214 min read
Sep 8 Worshipping God through discovering Genes
Today in 1989 the journal Science published the results of the work of Francis Collins who identified the gene which explained cystic...


Pearl of Great Price
Aug 30, 20214 min read
Aug 29 Faraday discovers Electricity
Today the great experimentalist Michael Faraday induced the first electrical current. Faraday would later use the principles he had...


Pearl of Great Price
Aug 27, 20214 min read
Aug 23 The Violent death of Brother Roger of Taizé
Today we travel to Taizé in France where today in 2005 the founder of the world famous ecumenical community was buried days after he had...


Pearl of Great Price
Aug 11, 20214 min read
Aug 11 Deep Ethics Cosmology - George Ellis
Today in 1939 George Francis Rayner Ellis was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is now the emeritus distinguished professor 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 5, 20213 min read
June 6 John Polkinghorne - Science & Religion
Today we remember how in 1982 and travel to where the theoretical physicist John Polkinghorne was ordained an Anglican priest in...
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