The Pearl of Great Price
The Pearl of Great Price
Latest Episodes
Sep 9 A Theology of Capital - Michael Novak
Today we remember the life of Michael Novak - influential author of the Spirit of Democratic Capitalism. He tweaked Weber's famous Protestant Work Ethic and claimed that free capitalist economies owed more to a Catholic Work Ethic
Sep 8 Discovering Genes as an opportunity to worship
Francis Collins the director of the Human Genome Project is a devout Christian. we explore his life today
Sep 7 Ethno-religious riots in Jos, Nigeria
Jos - the capital of the Plateau state in Nigeria's Central Belt is also a flashpoint for tension and violence between the Christian South and the Muslim North
Sep 6 Blaise Pascale, Salvation & Jansenism and The Index of Prohibited Books
Today we remember how the Vatican placed the Pascals Provincial Letters on the Index. He was a brilliant French polymath, the inventor of the syringe and a promoter of an exaggerated theology called Jansenism
Sep 5 Cardinal Josef Beran - opposition to totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia
Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague defied both the Nazis and the Communists. He nearly died of typhus in Dachau concentration camp and after the iron curtain fell was placed under 16 years house arrest by the Communists. He was only allowed to le...
.jpg)