The Pearl of Great Price

Send us Fan Mail Today's pod looks at the life of a remarkable Scottish Woman, who dedicated her life to saving twins from infanticide amongst tthe Okoyong people in Nigeria

Send us Fan Mail The remarkable life and faith of Albert Schweitzer, who was born today in 1875

Send us Fan Mail Today in 1893 Congress chartered the building of the Washington National Cathedral, Today's pod explores a remarkable building that is now of unifying importance for the nation. 

Send us Fan Mail  Today is the last day of Christmas, so we explore the origins of Twelfth Night Festivities and answer the question why does Christmas last 12 days?

Send us Fan Mail The Boys Scouts becomes a worldwide movement today in 1912 as the Scout Association was incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter. Today's pod looks at how the promise to do my duty to God has waxed and waned over the years 

Send us Fan Mail The amazing story of Father Damian, the apostle of lepers, who was born today in 1840

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Send us Fan Mail Today the Anglican Priest John Newton introduced a new hymn called I Chronicles 17.16-172 this has since became known as Amazing Grace, We look at how it has  become one of the most popular hymns of all time 

Send us Fan Mail We look at how Abraham Lincoln saved the constitution and kept the country together - but wasn't able to change the constitution to acknowledge the deity

Send us Fan Mail The ground breaking film Ben Hur was based on the novel that was voted the most influential Christian Book of the 19th Century.  It tells the fictional story of a Jewish prisoner, who encounters Christ  and eventually is freed from slavery by winning a chariot race

Send us Fan Mail Thomas Beckets murder in Canterbury Cathedral made him one of the most popular saints of the medieval period and Canterbury became a pilgrimage destination for many from around Europe

Send us Fan Mail John Wycliffe was a reforming priest from the 14th Century.  However he grew more critical and distant from the Pope and Church and inspired a group called the Lollards.  Sometimes he is called the evening star of scholasticism and the morning star of the Reformation

Send us Fan Mail The building that has become iconic in Istanbul, today was consecrated as a church 'The Holy Wisdom',  Under the Ottomans it became a mosque, Attaturk turned into a museum and Erdogan has turned it back into a mosque

Send us Fan Mail The first nurses on a US Navy hospital ship where 3 sisters from the Order of the Holy Cross - this is their story during the US Civil war

Send us Fan Mail The Philocalus Calendar is the first time we have Christmas Day recorded as an annual feast 

Send us Fan Mail Francis of Assisi is credited of inventing the Live Crib at  his hermitage at Greccio in Italy, this is the story of it 

Send us Fan Mail Antonio Bosio was a remarkable man who discovered many of the catacombs in Rome.  He often  risked his life exploring them, risking getting lost for ever

Send us Fan Mail Today we look at the papacy of Saint Innocent  I who according to St Jerome was the son of the previous pope, which was not a cause for scandal 

Send us Fan Mail Dorothy Sayers wrote a cycle of radio plays about the life of Jesus Christ that has been repeated and reproduced on multiple occasions

Send us Fan Mail The Buddleia or butterfly bush has become prolific, whilst many countries consider it an invasive species.  It was named by Carl Linneaus after a mild mannered Anglican cleric - Adam Buddle

Send us Fan Mail Westminster Abbey has become one of the most iconic and important churches in England, the site of many coronations, weddings and burials of Kings and Queens.  Recently the site of the Unknown Warrior - the only grave that you can't walk over

Send us Fan Mail The Swiss theologian Hans Kung was very influential as the youngest 'periti' or expert  of Vatican 2. As he his theology became more liberal he was banned from teaching by the Vatican 

Send us Fan Mail Today we look at the life of Sister Mary Keller - the first person to be awarded a PHD in computer science in America alongside Irving Tang. Her legacy includes being part of the group that delivered the pioneering computer language of BASIC

Send us Fan Mail Today we remember the death of Elizabeth Ten Boom in a concentration camp. Just before she died she told her sister Corrie "There is no pit so deep that He [God] is not deeper still." 

Send us Fan Mail One of the most creative minds of recent times was the mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson, who was given the nickname the cosmic genius.   He called himself a non-denominational Christian and had strong views on faith and science