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Pearl of Great Price
May 16, 20213 min read
May 17 Marquette Mapping the Mississippi
We remember the historical expedition of missionary Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, a French-Canadian explorer to explore the...
Pearl of Great Price
May 15, 20215 min read
May 16 Did Brendan discover N. America 1000 years before Columbus?
A book known as Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot) full of exploration, religious symbolism, and...
Pearl of Great Price
May 13, 20213 min read
May 14 Salem's Witch Trials
The town of Salem in Massachusetts witnessed an outbreak of 'Witch Trials' that lead to the execution of 19 people and destroyed the...
Pearl of Great Price
May 4, 20213 min read
May 5 Teaching Evolution and the Scopes Trial
Today we look at infamous Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee in 1925 and the attempt to overthrow the Butler Act which prohibited teaching...
Pearl of Great Price
May 2, 20215 min read
May 3 The Mark of the Beast and Seventh Day Adventists
The Book of Revelation and its prophesies about the end times has been a favourite theme for conspiracy theorists. Particularly the Sign...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 21, 20213 min read
Apr 22 'In God we Trust' and coins in the USA
Today in 1864 the Coinage Act was passed in Washington DC of this law, the phrase "In God We Trust" first appeared, on the two-cent coin...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 20, 20213 min read
Apr 21 Eagleton v Dawkins - Dwight H Terry Lectures
In 2009 the British literary theorist, Terry Eagleton, gave a lecture series titled Faith and Fundamentalism: Is belief in Richard...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 6, 20214 min read
Apr 6 Salt Lake Temple
Today we go back to 1893 and travel to Utah in North America and remember the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple . What is the theology...
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 26, 20213 min read
Mar 26 The mixed legacy of Ravi Zacharias
Today in 1946 in Madras, India controversial Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias was born. He inspired a generation of apologists and...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 22, 20213 min read
Mar 22 - The Great Awakening & Jonathan Edwards
Today we remember the revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards who died today in 1758. His legacy is significant and the ripples from his...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 16, 20213 min read
Mar 17 The Mormon Relief Society
On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1842 and travel to Illinois when today the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 12, 20213 min read
Mar 13 Rev John Harvard and his university
Today we remember how Harvard College was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 11, 20213 min read
Mar 12 George Berkley, Philosophy and America
Today in Ireland in 1685 Anglican bishop and philosopher George Berkeley was born. His philosophy is sometimes referred to as idealism...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 9, 20214 min read
Mar 10 Confessing to shooting Martin Luther King
Today in 1969, James A Ray confessed to the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King. He had been arrested two months after...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 8, 20213 min read
Mar 8 Reagan's Evil Empire
Today in 1983 in Orlando, Florida, American president Ronald Reagan in an address to the National Association of Evangelicals used the...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 4, 20212 min read
Mar 5 Roger Williams and American Baptists
Today in 1631 on Rhode Island the first Baptist church in America was established by Roger Williams, a Puritan minister born in London. ...
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 25, 20211 min read
Feb 26 Charles Sheldon and What Would Jesus Do?
The What Would Jesus Do movement has been an effective tool in youth work, and recently commercialised and also widely lampooned as a...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 21, 20211 min read
Feb 22 Philippine People Power
Today we remember a peaceful revolution in the Philippines which saw the end of Ferdinand Marcos 20 year rule and the key role Christian...
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