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The Pearl of Great Price — 369 episodes
Sep 9 A Theology of Capital - Michael Novak
Sep 8 Discovering Genes as an opportunity to worship
Sep 7 Ethno-religious riots in Jos, Nigeria
Sep 6 Blaise Pascale, Salvation & Jansenism and The Index of Prohibited Books
Sep 5 Cardinal Josef Beran - opposition to totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia
Sep 4 The Murder of a Croatian Abbot and Iconographer
Sep 3 The Heliand - An Old Norse Life of Christ
Sep 2 An American Ascetic Orthodox Monk - Seraphim Rose
Sep 1 Fr Dowling's Spiritual Exercises and Alcoholics Anonymous
Aug 31 Grunewald and the Isenheim Altarpiece
Aug 30 Liverpool, Everton and the Rev Ben Chambers
Aug 29 Michael Faraday, non conformism and electricity
Aug 28 Medellin and the start of Liberation Theology
Aug 27 The Businessman who could be beatified
Aug 26 Ivan the Terrible's monk
Aug 25 Nietzsche on the murder of God
Aug 24 Non Conformists and the Book of Common Prayer
Aug 23 Brother Roger, the flowering of ecumenism & his violent death
Aug 22 Henri de Lubac & Spiritual Worldliness
Sep 13 Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov
Sep 11 Defender of Slaves and indigenous peoples - De La Casas
Sep 10 Jung, Religion and Individuation
Aug 1 Aethelwold, Bluetooth and the Vikings
July 31 Mount Athos
July 30 Johann Sebastian Bach
July 29 Humanae Vitae and the issue of 'Reception'
July 26 Padre Pio
July 9 Brazil, stampede at a Papal Mass & Dom Helder Camara
July 8 John Templeton and his Templeton Prize
July 7 Alexander Solzhenitsyn repenting in the Gulag
May 28 William Colgate
May 19 Alcuin of York - Capital letters and miniscule script
May 18 The Original Megachurch - Drama and Kidnapping
May 17 Mapping the Mississippi with Marquette
May 16 Brendan the Navigator
May 15 Rerum Novarum, the Pope and Revolution
May 14 Salem Witch Trials
May 13 Shooting in St Peters Square
May 12 The Pope and Fatima's third secret
May 11 Irish Monasticism
May 10 Karl Barth
May 9 An Assassination tests a Popes Faith
May 8 Rebuilding in the ashes of a revolution, Jean Vianney
May 7 John Paul II in Romania & the Orthodox
May 6 Ghent Altarpiece
May 5 Scopes Trial and Teaching Evolution
May 4 Dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal
May 3 The Sign of the Beast
May 2 Fr Kircher, the Plague and Quarantine
May 1 Death of David Livingstone
Apr 30 The Polish Mystic, Faustina and the Divine Mercy
Apr 29 Joan of Arc
Apr 28 Mutiny on the Bounty
Apr 27 Milton's Paradise Lost
Apr 26 Shakespeare's Baptism and Hidden Messages
Apr 25 Barnsley FC & Muscular Christianity
Apr 24 Baptism of St Augustine
Apr 23 St George and the Order of the Garter
Apr 22 In God we Trust - Post Civil War Money
Apr 21 Eagleton v Dawkins, the Terry Lectures
Mar 22 Johnathan Edwards and the Great Awakening
Mar 21 Papier Mache Papal Tiara
Mar 20 Cuthbert & Lindisfarne
Mar 19 Taiping Rebellion & The Heavenly Kingdom
Mar 18 Charles Spurgeon and the Metropolitan Tabernacle
Mar 17 Mormon Relief Society
Mar 16 Founding of the Red Cross
Mar 15 Cardinal Manning and the Dock Strike
Mar 14 Dr Livingstone I presume
Mar 12 Bishop Berkeley, Yale and Idealism
Mar 11 William Carey's Fire in Serampore, India
Mar 10 Rev. Martin Luther King
Mar 9 In Sebaste, Roman Soldiers are Martyred
Mar 8 Reagan's Evil Empire
Mar 7 A Revolutionary new Mass
Mar 6 Michelangelo
Mar 5 Roger Williams first Baptist Church in USA
Mar 4 - William Penn's holy experiment of Pennsylvania
Mar 3 - The First Concordance
Mar 2 - The Death of John Wesley
Mar 1 Bishop Oldhams' Anglo-Chinese schools
Feb 28 Victorian Slum Priest Charles Lowder
Feb 27 Keir Hardy, Methodism and Labour
Feb 26 Sheldon and What Would Jesus Do?
Feb 25 Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights
Feb 24 Francis of Assisi
Feb 23 Handel's Messiah
Feb 20 Abolitionist & former slave Frederick Douglass
Feb 19 Nicolaus Copernicus
Feb 18 Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress
Feb 17 World Council of Churches
Feb 16 People Power in the Philippines
Feb 15 Charbel Makhlouf enters a hermitage
Feb 14 Saint Valentine
Feb 13 Glencoe Massacre
Feb 11 First Apparition in Lourdes
Feb 10 Paul shipwrecked in Malta
Feb 9 Unexploded Bomb in Genoa Cathedral
Feb 6 Mexico's Cristero War
Feb 5 Japan's Hidden Christians
Feb 4 Mormons travel to Salt Lake Valley
Feb 3 Guttenberg and his printing press
Feb 2 Candlemas
Feb 1 Erasmus and the Bible
Jan 31 Maronite Church & Lebanese Nationalism
Jan 30 - Oliver Cromwell and two executions
Jan 29 - Martin Luther's Wife
Jan 28 - Excommunicating an Emperor
Jan 27 - Dante's Exile and his Divine Comedy
Jan 26 - India becomes a republic
Jan 25 - Founding of Sao Paulo
Jan 24 - Gregorian Calendar is now almost universal
Jan 23 - Netherlands Splits, start of the Dutch Empire
Jan 22 - Arrival of the Swiss Guard in the Vatican
Jan 21 - First prayer of Pilgrim Fathers in America
Jan 20 - Communist Russia & Christianity
Jan 19 - Premiere of Goethe's Faust
Jan 18 - Final Session of Trent Opens
Jan 17 - Baptising Children in Switzerland
Jan 16 - The Medici become the Popes Bankers
Jan 15 James Naismith invents Basketball
Jan 14 - Albert Schweitzer
Jan 13 - Mary Slessor dies in Nigeria
Jan 12 - Digging Up the Bible
Jan 11 - The Danish Bishop who was the father of Geology
Jan 10- Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II
Jan 9 - The Black Nazarene
Jan 8 - Gauchito Gil, Argentinas folk saint
Jan 7 - Galileo's Moons cause a revolution
Jan 6 - Washington National Cathedral
Jan 5 - Twelfth Night
Jan 4 - I Promise to do my duty to God
Jan 3 - The Apostle of Lepers
Jan 2 - New Name New Mission
Jan 1 - Amazing Grace
Dec 31 Abraham Lincoln and the Deity
Dec 30 Ben Hur
Dec 29 Thomas Becket
Dec 28 John Wycliffe and the Lollards
Dec 27 Hagia Sophia - The Holy Wisdom
Dec 26 Nuns on a hospital ship
Dec 25 First record of Christmas as a holiday
Dec 24 The First Christmas Crib at Greccio
Dec 23 The Columbus of the Catacombs
Dec 22 The Father and Son who were Popes
Dec 21 The Wartime radio drama - The man born to be King
Dec 20 Rev Adam Buddle and the Buddleia
Dec 19 Westminster Abbey
Dec 18 Hans Kung stripped of the right to teach
Dec 17 The Nun who helped invent BASIC
Dec 16 The Ten Booms - Righteous amongst nations
Dec 15 Freeman Dyson and the two windows of faith and science
Dec 14 John of the Cross - a suffering reformer
Dec 13 Saint Lucy
Dec 12 Examining the Image of Guadalupe
Dec 11 The man who invented the laser
Dec 10 Ulster Revival
Dec 9 Our Lady of Guadalupe
Dec 8 Archaeology of Jericho and Capernaum
Dec 7 Gaudium et Spes
Dec 6 The Franciscan who first sketched Niagra Falls
Dec 4 The Shroud of Turin
Dec 3 The first heart transplant
Dec 2 Christopher Wren designs St Pauls
Dec I Charles de Foucault of the Little Brothers is shot
Nov 28 The Night of the Confessor - Tomas Halik
Nov 27 Milan Cathedral - Il Duomo
Nov 26 Paul VI Stabbed in Manila
Nov 25 Biblical Encylopedias and their deaf author
Nov 24 Pius XI loses the Papal States & Infallibility
Nov 23 Thomas Tallis' Tapestry of Voices
Nov 22 The Knights Templar
Nov 21 Lumen Gentium - A light for the Peoples
Nov 20 The Little Flower and Two Popes
Nov 19 A radical thinker from Uruguay
Nov 18 A little piece of heaven as St Peters is consecrated
Nov 17 Harald Bluetooth and Denmark's Baptismal Certificate, The Jelling Stones
Nov 16 Hugh of Lincoln, Anglo-Norman culture
Nov 15 How to Read the Bible - Dei Verbum
Nov 14 Blitzes, Bombs and Cathedrals
Nov 13 A Darwinist's description of religious experience
Nov 12 King Canute and the tide
Nov 11 Ordaining Women
Nov 10 Stopping Clandestine Marriages
Nov 9 Satan and the Book of Enoch
Nov 8 The Samaritans and Chad Varah
Nov 7 Pope Benedict consecrates Barcelona's Sagrada Famiiia
Nov 6 George Williams and the YMCA
Nov 5 Guy Fawkes and York Minster
Nov 4 J R R Tolkien's Theological Mythology
Nov 3 War Requiem - Benjamin Britten and Wilfred Owen
Nov 2 The Theology of Failure according to John Navone
Nov 1 Michelangelo's Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Oct 31 Catholics and Lutherans agree on Justification
Oct 30 Nat Turners Slave Rebellion
Oct 29 St Andrew, his relics and Scotland
Oct 28 The Good Pope and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 27 Constantine, the Edict of Milan and The True Cross
Oct 26 Alfred the Great - Christianity unites England
Oct 25 Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales
Oct 24 Chartres Cathedral - Jewel of Civilisation
Oct 23 Chang Kei Shek is baptised in China
Oct 22 Tillich - God as the Ground of Being
Oct 21 Gerard Manley Hopkins - The priest who was a poet
Oct 20 Schillebeeckx and the empty tomb
Oct 19 Solidarity, Poland and the assassination of a priest
Oct 18 Caravaggio and the Mafia
Oct 17 The Nobel Peace Prize and Mother Teresa
Oct 16 The Quantam Physicist who became a priest - Polkinghorne
Oct 15 How we measure time - Pope Gregory's Calendar
Oct 14 Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janiero
Oct 13 The miracle of Fatima as witnessed by 50,000
Oct 12 God and Humanity - Analogia Entis, Erich Przywara's universal rhythm
Oct 11 Vatican 2 Opens
Oct 10 Carlo Acutis - the first millenial saint
Oct 9 Fr Gabrielle Fallopio and Fallopian tubes
Oct 8 Japans Schindler's List
Oct 7 Mother Teresa - sign of contradiction
Oct 6 Tennyson - Faith and Doubt In Memoriam
Oct 5 Uganda - an ecumenism of blood
Oct 4 Rembrandt - the painter of the Soul
Oct 3 Zionism in Africa and John Alexander Dowie
Oct 2 Christian Heroism in Hungary - Mindzentsy
Oct 1 Romano Guardini - The Lord
Sep 30 The Intellectual courage of George Tyrell and Modernism
Sep 29 Leo the Great meets Attila the Hun and Manicheism
Sep 28 The Witness, the Vatican Obelisk in St Peters Square
Sep 27 The first female doctor of the church - Teresa of Avila
Sep 26 Abraham Lincoln calls for a national day of prayer and fasting
Sep 25 Rudolph Otto - the Idea of the Holy
Sep 24 Bede the Venerable and the Synod of Hertford
Sep 23 Khomyakov, Orthodox theologian of community
Sep 22 Mega-funerals and Brother Baght Singh
Sep 21 Rev Thomas Bayes, the father of statisticians
Sep 20 Korea and Christianity
Sep 19 George Herbert metaphysical poet
Sep 18 Rev George MacDonald, Fantasy and Fairies
Sep 17 Adrienne von Speyr - the modern doctor who was a mystic
Sep 16 The Bishop and the Serial Killer
Sep 15 The miraculous painting of Dominic de Guzman
Sep 14 Dom Perignon, Monks and Wine Making
Sep 12 Richard Challoner - leading in an hostile environment
Aug 14 Maximilian Kolbe - offering his life at Auschwitz
Aug 13 James Joyce, faith and Ulysees
Aug 12 Golden Roses & Our Lady of Aparecida
Aug 11 The Cosmology of Deep Ethics - G.F.R Ellis
Aug 10 Salvation outside the Church
Aug 9 Herman the Wonderworker of Alaska
Aug 8 Soren Kierkegaard's leap of faith
Aug 7 The Munich Eucharistic Congress
Aug 6 Conclave
Aug 5 Bill W and Alcoholics Anonymous
Aug 4 Dr Grenfels mission to Labrador
Aug 3 Christopher Columbus and the New World
Aug 2 Edith Stein
July 28 The Mernaphta Stele
July 27 Bonhoeffers Parents hear through the BBC that their son has been killed
June 2 Anthony DeMello
June 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls
May 31 Aparecida & the making of Pope Francis
May 30 Standing up to the Nazi's, the Confessing Church
May 29 G.K.Chesterton
May 27 The Oldest Legal System in the World
May 26 Bernardos
May 25 Ecumenism and Ut Unum Sint
May 24 John Wesley's Conversion
May 23 Sam Sharpe and Jamaica's Baptist Rebellion
May 22 The Trevi Fountain, Popes and Rome
May 21 Attacking the Pieta
May 20 'We Believe....." The Council of Nicea
Feb 12 The Havana Declaration
Feb 8 The Quaker Benjamin Lay and Anti-Slavery
Feb 7 The Bonfire of the Vanities
Aug 21 Adam Gifford and the Gifford Lectures
Aug 20 Demythologising Rudolph Bultmann
Aug 19 The Exodus and the Moabite Stone
Aug 18 Filming the Exorcist
Aug 17 Excavating Armageddon
Apr 16 Operation Baptism - smuggling Jews away from the Nazis
Aug 15 Cologne Cathedral - 632 years in the making
July 25 Tim Le Haye, Left Behind & Armegeddon
July 24 Christina, the Beguines and the Bollandists
July 23 Cuba, Castro and the Hurricane Priest
July 22 Mary Magdalene
July 21 Marcelo Gleiser - Cosmology, wonder and faith
July 20 Buzz Aldrin takes communion on the moon
July 19 The Great Fire of Rome, Peter & Paul Executed
July 18 Birmingham City
July 17 Matteo Ricci & the Oldest Newspaper in China
July 16 Innocent III, Papal hard power & unlikely reform
July 15 Nanette the Velvet Brick and Mother of Slaves
July 14 Venice, Vivaldi and the collapsing Campanile
July 13 C.S.Lewis - A grief observed
July 12 The Fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple
July 11 Eric Liddell the flying Scotsman
July 10 Cardinal Richelieu and the French Academy
July 6 Mircea Eliade - A History of Religious Ideas
July 5 Thomas Cook, the temperance movement and Package Tourism
July 4 The Empress Pulcheria and the Theotokos
July 3 The Mythical Kingdom of Prester John and Marco Polo
July 2 St Swithun and St Swithin's Day
July 1 The Boxer Rebellion and the first martyr from Yale
June 30 Mother Noella - The Cheese Nun
June 29 Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Poet of the Spirit
June 28 Monsignor Benson's the Lord of the World - the father of Dystopian Science Fiction
June 27 Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - Girard
June 26 Beauty, Goodness, Truth - Von Balthazar
June 25 The Secret Encyclical against the Nazis
June 24 Billy Grahams Last Crusade
June 23 Walter Ciszek, with God in Russia
June 22 Kateri - The first Native American Saint
June 21 The Christian Inventor who wanted to feed the world
June 20 The Priest who created the Big Bang Theory
June 19 Lord Acton - Power corrupts
June 18 Laudato Si
June 17 The Tolpuddle Martyrs
June 16 Lead Kindly Light - John Henry Newman
June 15 Magna Carta & Bishop Stephen Langton
June 14 The Hungarian Church defies the Communists
June 13 Downs Syndrome and Dr Lejeune
June 12 Reclaiming St Petersburg from the Communists
June 11 Fulton Sheen the Emmy winning Bishop
June 10 Von Harnack and the Theology of Culture
June 9 Terese of Liseux and the Story of a Soul
Mar 31 John Donne - metaphysical poet
Mar 30 Start of Reformation in England
Mar 29 Coram's Foundling Hospital
Mar 28 The Salvation Army in America
Mar 27 Meister Eckhart
Mar 26 Ravi Zacharias and his mixed legacy
Mar 25 The Emperor who became a monk
Mar 24 Papal Interdicts and the Magna Carta
Mar 23 McGregor, Aston Villa & the Football League
Mar 13 Rev John Harvard and his University
Dec 5 The Requiem of Hector Berlioz
June 8 Gustavo Gutierrez and Liberation Theology
June 7 Gaudi and the Sagrada Familia
June 6 John Polkinghorne - Faith & Science
June 5 The Sermon that inspired the Riot Act
June 3 Hitler's Pope?
Apr 16 Culloden and the Highland Clearances
Apr 14 Doubravka and the founding of Poland
Apr 12 The pioneering Doctor of Diabetes who became a Saint
Apr 11 Pacem in Terris
Apr 10 William Booths Salvation Army
Apr 8 Bonhoeffer Sentenced to Death by Nazis
Apr 7 Richard the Lionheart
Apr 6 Salt Lake Temple
Apr 6 The Last Supper
Apr 5 Laura Vicuna patron saint of abused children
Apr 4 Isidore of Seville, patron saint of the Internet
Apr 3 Richard of Chichester
Apr 2 Siege of Bethlehem
Apr 13 The Pope and the Synagogue
Apr 9 Encyclicals
Feb 22 Ash Wednesday
Feb 21 Pancake Tuesday and Carnival
Nov 30 St John the Unfinished and Duke Wellington
Nov 29 Dorothy Day - A unique radical
June 4 Silencing Prayer in Schools
Apr 20 Angelo Secchi and the Papal Yacht
Apr 19 Birth of Protestantism, the Diet of Speyer
Apr 18 St Peters Basilica
Apr 17 Easter Sunday
Apr 15 Good Friday
Apr 15 Mandela & Truth and Reconciliation
Apr 17 Fr Ricciolo Mapping the Moon
Apr 4 Easter Sunday
Apr 2 Good Friday, the shroud and the cross