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Sep 28 The Witness, the Vatican Obelisk in St Peters Square
Season 9 Episode 28
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The Obelisk outside St Peters in Rome stood in Nero's Circus and witnessed the crucifixion of St Peter. This is the story of how it was moved there and what happened to Peter
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Sep 27 The first female doctor of the church - Teresa of Avila
Season 9 Episode 27
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She was a great mystic, practical and effective reformer and one of the most influential authors of the spiritual life. St Teresa of Avila, founder of the Discalced Carmelites. Author o…
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Sep 26 Abraham Lincoln calls for a national day of prayer and fasting
Season 9 Episode 26
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The Civil War had started months earlier because of the right to own slaves and Lincolns election. Today he called for a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer to bring an end to the st…
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Sep 25 Rudolph Otto - the Idea of the Holy
Season 9 Episode 25
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When Otto published the idea of the Holy during World War One it was a sensation, soon translated into multiple languages. He coined the term numinous to describe the experience of the…
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Sep 24 Bede the Venerable and the Synod of Hertford
Season 9 Episode 24
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A key moment in English History - the first synod of Bishops which stabilised the church with its diocesan boundaries, unified England and clarified marital practice. We have records b…
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Sep 23 Khomyakov, Orthodox theologian of community
Season 9 Episode 23
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Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov was a Russian theologian, philosopher, poet and amateur artist. He co-founded the Slavophile movement and created a Theology around 'sobornost' or community
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Sep 22 Mega-funerals and Brother Baght Singh
Season 9 Episode 22
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Today in 2000 we remember how a quarter of a million Christians clogged the streets, to pay their final respects to the evangelist Bakht Singh who was being buried in Hyderabad, India.…
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Sep 21 Rev Thomas Bayes, the father of statisticians
Season 9 Episode 21
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There is growing appreciation of the impact of the non conformist minister. Thomas Byre lifes work. His theorem which was posthumously published has now created a whole school in the f…
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Sep 20 Korea and Christianity
Season 9 Episode 20
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The Korean peninsula is a grassroots church - as it grew without any direct clerical influence for many years. A diplomat brought back the books of the Italian Jesuit Missionary from B…
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Sep 19 George Herbert metaphysical poet
Season 9 Episode 19
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George Herbert - a gifted orator at Cambridge University and then the court of James I. left all that behind to be ordained in the Church of England and work in a rural parish. He poetr…
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