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Pearl of Great Price
Sep 15, 20215 min read
Sep 10 Jung, Religion and the Collective Unconscious
Today at Yale University, Carl Jung’s Terry lectures on Psychology and Religion were published. He had delivered the lectures in 1938...


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 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
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 30, 20213 min read
July 1 The Boxer Uprising leads the first martyr from Yale
American missionary Horace Tracy Pitkin was beheaded when a mob burst into his Mission compound as part of the Boxer Uprising. This was...


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
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 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...
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