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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 …
9 months, 1 week ago
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 humil…
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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…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
9 months, 3 weeks ago