
The Pearl of Great Price
A short daily trip down the lane of Christian History. Looking at the fascinating people and events that have shaped a universal civilisation.
Episodes
369 episodes
June 2 Anthony DeMello
Indian Priest and psychotherapist Anthony De Mello sold over 2 million books on spirituality in his life time, fusing Christian Spirituality with Eastern traditions of Daoism and Buddhism. But after he died prematurely on June 2 1987 his work c...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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8:46

June 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls
The most exciting discovery of modern Archaeology in a cave by the shore of the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea Scrolls is a huge discovery of nearly 900 manuscripts. Where did they come from and what do they tell us?
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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10:00

May 31 Aparecida & the making of Pope Francis
The 5th conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM) was in the Mexican shrine of Aparecida. Did this mark a decisive shift to Latin America as a Source Church for the Global Church. An Argentinian Jesuit, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio oversaw...
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Season 5
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Episode 31
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9:36

May 30 Standing up to the Nazi's, the Confessing Church
On May 30 the confessing church in German finished its first synod and issued the Barmen Declaration. Bravely denouncing the Nazification of the Evangelical Church. They were inspired by Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Niemoller
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Season 5
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Episode 30
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8:05

May 29 G.K.Chesterton
Described as the Prince of Paradox, great wordsmith and communicator Chesterton had an interesting spiritual journey. Unitarianism > Occult > Anglicanism > Catholicism. Some of his books are now considered to be classics of...
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Season 5
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Episode 29
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9:11

May 27 The Oldest Legal System in the World
Canon Law has developed over 2000 years and influence the development of many secular legal systems
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Season 5
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Episode 27
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7:27
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May 26 Bernardos
William Bernardo wanted to be a missionary to China after his evangelical conversion. Moving to London to study medicine he was shocked by how many children were orphaned and lived on the streets
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Season 5
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Episode 26
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9:43

May 25 Ecumenism and Ut Unum Sint
This encyclical on Church Unity, marked a different papal tone, with John Paul II calling ecumenism an imperative
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Season 5
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Episode 25
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16:44

May 24 John Wesley's Conversion
John Wesley went from spiritual despair to renewal after experiencing a strange warming of the heart in Aldersgate London
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Season 5
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Episode 24
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8:28

May 23 Sam Sharpe and Jamaica's Baptist Rebellion
Today Sam Sharpe was executed for inciting a Slave Rebellion, he is now a national hero in Jamaica. A slave himself and a Baptist Deacon, this is his story
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Season 5
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Episode 23
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7:23

May 22 The Trevi Fountain, Popes and Rome
Today we remember how Popes commissioned and Blessed the redesigned Trevi Fountain. The City of Rome has closely been linked to the rise and fall of the Papacy.
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Season 5
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Episode 22
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8:18

May 21 Attacking the Pieta
Michelangelo's Pieta is one of the greatest sculptures of all time, and today it was attacked by a Hungarian Geologist and seriously damaged.
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Season 5
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Episode 21
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8:13

May 20 'We Believe....." The Council of Nicea
The first ecumenical (Global ) Church Council and the Creed that came from it
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Season 5
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Episode 20
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8:48

May 19 Alcuin of York - Capital letters and miniscule script
The greatest mind of the 8th Century - changed how we read letters, and saved a lot of knowledge from Viking Destruction. Alcuin of York - a one man renaissance was the sun who shone over Europe
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Season 5
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Episode 19
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8:52

May 18 The Original Megachurch - Drama and Kidnapping
Today we remember the disappearance of Aimee McPherson a remarkable and pioneering evangelist. And how she reappeared 5 weeks later in the Mexican Desert ... what happened?
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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9:33

May 17 Mapping the Mississippi with Marquette
The Jesuit explorer Jacques Marquette and the Canadian Fur Trapper Louis Joillet were the first to explore and map the Mississipi - they embarked today and this is their story
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Season 5
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Episode 17
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8:02
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May 16 Brendan the Navigator
Did a Celtic Monk called Brendan cross the Atlantic 1000 years before Columbus?
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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14:46

May 15 Rerum Novarum, the Pope and Revolution
Rerum Novarum was described as ground breaking - the foundational encyclical on Catholic Social Teaching. The only encyclical to spawn to follow up encyclicals as the Church tries to tread a middle line between Capitalism and Socialism
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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17:32

May 14 Salem Witch Trials
The infamous Salem Witch trials are now understood to be a bout of Puritan Mass Hysteria - and some historians argue lead to the end of experimental theocracies in the USA
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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9:00

May 13 Shooting in St Peters Square
Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca came millimeters from killing John Paul II today by shooting him four times at close range in St Peters Square. We look at the theories about why it happened and their relationship afterwards
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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12:57

May 12 The Pope and Fatima's third secret
On a thanksgiving pilgrimage to Fatima Pope John Paul II was attacked by a ultra-conservative priest brandishing a bayonet. Why was the Pope there in the first place? What was he giving thanks for?
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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8:38
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Mar 12 Bishop Berkeley, Yale and Idealism
George Berkeley, a father of Empiricism, and Irish Bishop and endower of Yale University lived a fascinating life, We look at his ideas and his legacy in this podcast.
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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8:27

Mar 11 William Carey's Fire in Serampore, India
Today we remember a fire in Serrmapore which destroyed some priceless translations from Sanskrit but brought international fame to the work of William Carey. Covering the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society and the first degree-awarding ...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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7:34
