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May 18 The Original Megachurch - Drama and Kidnapping
Season 5 Episode 18
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Today we remember the disappearance of Aimee McPherson a remarkable and pioneering evangelist. And how she reappeared 5 weeks later i…
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May 17 Mapping the Mississippi with Marquette
Season 5 Episode 17
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The Jesuit explorer Jacques Marquette and the Canadian Fur Trapper Louis Joillet were the first to explore and map the Mississipi - t…
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May 16 Brendan the Navigator
Season 5 Episode 16
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Did a Celtic Monk called Brendan cross the Atlantic 1000 years before Columbus?
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May 15 Rerum Novarum, the Pope and Revolution
Season 5 Episode 15
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Rerum Novarum was described as ground breaking - the foundational encyclical on Catholic Social Teaching. The only encyclical to spaw…
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May 14 Salem Witch Trials
Season 5 Episode 14
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The infamous Salem Witch trials are now understood to be a bout of Puritan Mass Hysteria - and some historians argue lead to the end …
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May 12 The Pope and Fatima's third secret
Season 5 Episode 12
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On a thanksgiving pilgrimage to Fatima Pope John Paul II was attacked by a ultra-conservative priest brandishing a bayonet. Why was t…
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May 13 Shooting in St Peters Square
Season 5 Episode 13
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Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca came millimeters from killing John Paul II today by shooting him four times at close range in St Pete…
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Feb 12 The Havana Declaration
Season 2 Episode 12
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Today in 2016 saw the first-ever meeting between a Pope and the head of the Russian Orthodox church, we discuss how it came about and…
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Feb 8 The Quaker Benjamin Lay and Anti-Slavery
Season 2 Episode 8
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Today we look at a remarkable character and his powerful witness against slavery, Benjamin Lay. We also look at the spiritual moveme…
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Feb 7 The Bonfire of the Vanities
Season 2 Episode 6
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Today we remember the apocalyptical and puritanical Savanarola and his Bonfire of the Vanities that was lit today in Florence in 1497
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