Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Mar 12 Bishop Berkeley, Yale and Idealism
Season 3 Episode 12
Send a text
George Berkeley, a father of Empiricism, and Irish Bishop and endower of Yale University lived a fascinating life, We look at his ideas a…
4 days, 1 hour ago
Feb 24 Francis of Assisi
Season 2 Episode 24
Send a text
The son of a rich silk merchant makes a radical decision to embrace poverty, the Story of Francis of Assisi.
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Feb 23 Handel's Messiah
Season 2 Episode 23
Send a text
Today we remember the birth of George Friderick Handel whose oratario 'Messiah' has become a central part of the Christmas season
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Feb 20 Abolitionist & former slave Frederick Douglass
Season 2 Episode 20
Send a text
Today we look at the life and faith of Frederick Douglass, the first African-American to run for Vice President. He died today in 1895 bu…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Feb 19 Nicolaus Copernicus
Season 2 Episode 19
Send a text
Today in 1473 the mathematician, astronomer, and priest Copernicus was born in Poland. He famously formulated a model of the universe tha…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Feb 18 Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress
Season 2 Episode 18
Send a text
A book that has never been out of print since it was published today in 1678, we look at puritan preacher John Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress
1 month ago
Feb 17 World Council of Churches
Season 2 Episode 21
Send a text
Today we remember the ending of the assembly of teh world council of churchhes in Canbera, Australia. Looking at the evolution of this int…
1 month ago
Feb 16 People Power in the Philippines
Season 2 Episode 22
Send a text
Today a relatively peaceful revolution took place in Mania removing the autocrat Ferdinand Marcos, We look at the crucial role church l…
1 month ago
Feb 15 Charbel Makhlouf enters a hermitage
Season 2 Episode 15
Send a text
Today we remember the life of a Lebanese Saint who attracts thousands of Christians and Muslims to his grave every month. We look at the p…
1 month ago
Feb 14 Saint Valentine
Season 2 Episode 14
Send a text
Today we try and get as close as we can to establishing who St Valentine actually was, and how his feast day has developed over time
1 month ago