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Aug 30 Liverpool, Everton and the Rev Ben Chambers
Season 8 Episode 30
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When Ben Chambers became the Methodist Minister at St Domingo's chapel he started the 'Band of Hope' putting on activities to distrac…
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Aug 29 Michael Faraday, non conformism and electricity
Season 8 Episode 29
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Today Michael Faraday induced the first electrical current - this would change civilization. Not formally educated - his enquiring m…
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Aug 28 Medellin and the start of Liberation Theology
Season 8 Episode 28
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Paul VI opened the Second Conference of Latin American Bishops in Medellin, Colombia. This was influenced by the Brazilian education…
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Aug 27 The Businessman who could be beatified
Season 8 Episode 27
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Enrique Shaw was a successful lifelong businessman from Argentina. As he was dying awaiting for a life saving blood transfusion - hu…
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Aug 26 Ivan the Terrible's monk
Season 8 Episode 26
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Adrian of Ondrusuv sacrificed his estate to become a monk after meeting a holy hermit. Ivan the Terrible. a tyrant and cruel leader…
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Aug 25 Nietzsche on the murder of God
Season 8 Episode 25
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Friedrich Nietzsche died today in 1900 - one of the most influential intellectuals of the modern era. His relationship with God is m…
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Aug 24 Non Conformists and the Book of Common Prayer
Season 8 Episode 24
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Today approximately 2000 puritans resigned their pulpits as deadline came for forced assent to the Book of Common Prayer. We look at …
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Aug 23 Brother Roger, the flowering of ecumenism & his violent death
Season 8 Episode 23
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The Taize ecumenical monastic community in France was founded by Roger Schultz in the ashes of WW2. It still attracts thousands of y…
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Aug 22 Henri de Lubac & Spiritual Worldliness
Season 8 Episode 22
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De Lubac was one of the most influential theologians of the 20th Century. His experience of WW1 and WW2 was followed by 10 years bein…
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Sep 13 Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov
Season 9 Episode 13
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The final novel of Dostoevsky is possibly his most famous - the Brothers Karamazov. Wrought out of terrible grief and struggles with…
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