The Pearl of Great Price

Send us Fan Mail Today in 1533 Thomas Cranmer was ordained Archbishop of Canterbury, historians mark this as the beginning of the Reformation in England.  We look at his opportunistic rise and his downfall

Send us Fan Mail Thomas Coram was shocked walking into 18th Century London at the amount of abandoned children he would come across in the streets.  This is the story of how he set up his famous foundling hospital - the first incorporated charity in Britain.

Send us Fan Mail They are a key part of the Christmas season in America.... but where did they come from?  How was their reputation established?  Did they popularise doughnuts? What are the challenges today 

Send us Fan Mail The German Dominican and Theologian Johannes Eckhart became very popular in the late 20th Century because of his Creation Spirituality. Today we look at his life and legacy.  Was he a mystic or just a medieval theologian?  Did his powerful preaching in fluence Luther? 

Send us Fan Mail One of the most popular Christian Apologists died recently and left multiple victims of abuse.  This caused great distress in the Evangelical Community.  Amidst all the book burning we look at his legacy and try to understand the tradition he came out of. 

Send us Fan Mail The story of Byzantium and the Emperor Theodosius III who was forced to retire to a monastery with his son.  Then the catastrophic 4th crusade, intended for Jerusalem which ended up in sacking Constantinople

Send us Fan Mail How a Papal Interdict stopped public daily mass in England - a feat that wasn't repeated till the Coronavirus Lockdown.  How this ultimately lead to the Magna Carta, the reigning in of a tyrant, and the foundations of individual liberty in the UK and the USA

Send us Fan Mail How Christian businessman William McGregor started the Football League.  A teetotaller, first he cleaned up Aston Villa and then as the game was becoming more professional, he organised regular fixtures 

Send us Fan Mail Today a college in Massachusetts was established by vote and named after its largest benefactor the Rev John Harvard, we explore his life and how the college has grown into one of the most famous universities in the world. 

Send us Fan Mail Described as one of the most expansive audio experiences in the classical world - Berlioz's Requiem was commissioned in memory of French Soldiers who died in Algeria

Send us Fan Mail The Peruvian Dominican Gustavo Gutierrez is seen by many as being the father of Liberation Theology this is his story

Send us Fan Mail The life of the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi is intertwined with his magnus opus the Sagrada Familia. It changed him and he changed ecclesial architecture with his imagination and genius.

Send us Fan Mail John Charlton Polkinghorne  was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent voice explaining the relationship between science and religion, he was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, when he resigned his chair to study for the priesthood, becoming an ordained Anglican priest in 1982.

Send us Fan Mail The Sacheverell riots were a series of outbreaks of public disorder, which spread across England during the spring, summer and autumn of 1710 in which supporters of the T ories attacked the homes and meeting-houses of dissenters particularly those of p resbyterians, inspired by the Nov 5th Sermon of Rev Henry Sacheverell.

Send us Fan Mail Pope Pius XII has long been smeared as being Hitlers Pope,  English historian John Cornwell has made a lot of money from it. Today we look at the defection of the head of the Romanian KGB who admitted it was a Russian disinformation campaign. 

Send us Fan Mail We remember the end of the Jacobite Rising on a moorland outside of Inverness. The battle of Culloden was the last battle fought on British Soil and marked the end of Catholic dreams of a restoration of the Stewart dynasty and Bonnie Prince Charlies recovery of the throne.  We also look at the brutal Highland Clearances that followed. 

Send us Fan Mail Today in 966 Miesko married Doubravka of Bohemia.  A condition of the marriage was that Miesko would be baptised.  This lead to a transition from polytheistic and fragmented Slavic (Lechite) waring tribes to a unitary Christian nation - the birth of Poland

Send us Fan Mail Dr Giuseppi Moscati from Naples pioneered the early treatment of Diabetes.  He was an outstanding medical professional especially to the poor. Motivated by his deep faith he was declared a saint in 1987 - this is his story. 

Send us Fan Mail Months after the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation, Pope John XXIII published an encyclical 'Peace on Earth'.  It has lead to conferences at the United Nations and updating of ancient Catholic Just War theory. 

Send us Fan Mail This is the story of William Booth's life as a preacher and campaigner, the church that he founded and the incredible opposition that he faced.  The conflict between his Salvation Army and the Violent Skeleton Army gives an insight into the rapid social changes happening in a rapidly urbanising post-industrial Britain. 

Send us Fan Mail The Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a persistent critic of the Nazis and a founder of the Confessing Church. A persistent thorn in the side for Hitler he was silenced today two weeks before his concentration camp was liberated by US Soldiers

Send us Fan Mail King Richard the Lionheart died at the age of 41 today in his mother's arms.  By no means a saint but for many an icon of Christian Chivalry. This is the story of his effort to liberate Jerusalem and the peculiar circumstances of his death.

Send us Fan Mail We look at research into the historical date of the Last Supper, looking at the calendar that Jesus would have used

Send us Fan Mail The story of the impressive Salt Lake Temple in Utah, and the mormon theology of religious authority behind it. 

Send us Fan Mail The sad story of Laura Vicuna born into a wealthy military family from Chile who fell from grace.  Rescued by nuns, all she wanted was her widowed mum to escape from an abusive relationship.