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Sep 24 Bede the Venerable and the Synod of Hertford
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 Englan…

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Sep 23 Khomyakov, Orthodox theologian of community
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 a…

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Sep 22 Mega-funerals and Brother Baght Singh
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 B…

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Sep 21 Rev Thomas Bayes, the father of statisticians
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 posthumous…

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Sep 20 Korea and Christianity
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 ba…

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Sep 19 George Herbert metaphysical poet
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 Ch…

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Sep 18 Rev George MacDonald, Fantasy and Fairies
Sep 18 Rev George MacDonald, Fantasy and Fairies

Season 9 Episode 18

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Hugely influential in the life of many British writers - particularly C S Lewis, but also across the pond with Mark Twain. Born a Cal…

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Sep 17 Adrienne von Speyr - the modern doctor who was a mystic
Sep 17 Adrienne von Speyr - the modern doctor who was a mystic

Season 9 Episode 17

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The first female doctor in Switzerland - she would convert to Catholicism and set up the community of St John with Hans Urs von Balth…

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Sep 16 The Bishop and the Serial Killer
Sep 16 The Bishop and the Serial Killer

Season 9 Episode 16

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Gilles de Rai was one of the earliest serial killers on record, today he was arrested in 1440 after an investigation by the Bishop of…

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Sep 15 The miraculous painting of Dominic de Guzman
Sep 15 The miraculous painting of Dominic de Guzman

Season 9 Episode 15

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Dominic de Guzman founded the Order of Preachers who were hugely responsible with spreading devotion to the Rosary. He has two countr…

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