Today in 432 a large crowd descended on the church in Constantinople cheering “Many years to Pulcheria! Many years to the empress!” They...

year 2008 and travel to St Andrews in Scotland were the French polymath, Rene Girard was given honorary degree at St Andrews. Beginning...

Today in 1988 we remember the death of one of the greatest theological minds of the 20th Century. Hans Urs Von Balthazar died just two...

It was in Flushing Meadows in New York where the American evangelist Billy Graham today began what he said would be his last North...

Today in 1834 in Chicago, Cyrus McCormick, a Christian inventor died. He patented the world’s first workable agricultural reaper,...

Gustavo Gutierrez, the Peruvian Dominican priest is seen by many as the father of Latin American Liberation Theology. We look at his...

A Jesuit priest from India and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality, integrating ancient eastern...

Today in 1934 the first synod of the Confessing Church ended. They issued the important Barmen Declaration. An important and brave...

Karl Barth the most influential Protestant theologian of the 20th century was born on May 10th 1886. A leader of the 'Confessing Church'...

The What Would Jesus Do movement has been an effective tool in youth work, and recently commercialised and also widely lampooned as a...

Today the third and final session of the Council of Trent opened. An ecumenical council as opposed to a local council it would prove ...

Today in 1892 the chaplain and teacher James Naismith published the rules of basketball. This is the story of how he invented it at the...

Today in 1875, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Theologian and Missionary, Albert Schweitzer was born. We look at his remarkable life and mixed...