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July 9 Brazil, stampede at a Papal Mass & Dom Helder Camara
Season 7 Episode 9
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Today we look at the unprecedent global journeys of John Paul II, a stampede at a mass in Fortaleza in North East Brazil and its Dom Helder Camara the bishop who spoke for the poor and …
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
July 8 John Templeton and his Templeton Prize
Season 7 Episode 8
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John Templeton, one of the worlds most generous philanthropist was fascinated by religion and science. His annual prize is bigger than the Nobel Prizes in monetary value as he felt tha…
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July 7 Alexander Solzhenitsyn repenting in the Gulag
Season 7 Episode 7
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Alexander Solzhenitsyns book the Gulag Archipelago sold over 30million copies and did much to expose the cruelty and lies of Stalins Regime. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literatu…
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July 6 Mircea Eliade - A History of Religious Ideas
Season 7 Episode 6
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Today we look at the life and thought of Mircea Eliade a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His work on the Eterna…
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July 5 Thomas Cook, the temperance movement and Package Tourism
Season 7 Episode 5
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Thomas Cook - a committed Baptist and fierce promoter of the Temperance movement in industrial Britain ended up being a pioneer of the travel industry.
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July 4 The Empress Pulcheria and the Theotokos
Season 7 Episode 4
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One of the most powerful woman in the Ancient World - Pulcheria was a Eastern Roman empress who advised her brother emperor Theodosius II and then became wife to emperor Marcian. Her …
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July 3 The Mythical Kingdom of Prester John and Marco Polo
Season 7 Episode 3
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For more than 500 years, Europeans believed a Christian king ruled over a vast empire somewhere in the wilds of Africa, India or the Far East. The mysterious king claimed to serve as “s…
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July 2 St Swithun and St Swithin's Day
Season 7 Episode 2
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A popular superstition linking this Anglo Saxon Bishop and the weather has proved remarkably resilient. We investigate it in todays podcast as we remember Swithins death on July 2, 863
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July 1 The Boxer Rebellion and the first martyr from Yale
Season 7 Episode 1
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An outpouring of anti-foreign and anti-Christian violence in China lead to the beheading of Horace Tracy Pitkin. He would become known as the first missionary martyr from Yale University
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
June 30 Mother Noella - The Cheese Nun
Season 6 Episode 30
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One of the worlds experts on Cheese is a Benedictine Nun who has a PHD in microbiology
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago