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.
The Pearl of Great Price
Nov 6 George Williams and the YMCA
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Tim Byron
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Season 11
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Episode 6
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George Williams inspired by the ideals of Muscular Christianity founded the YMCA to offer young men an alternative and healthy life to the urban malaise he saw in London, The movement spread around the world and invented basketball and volleyball as part of its legacy