The Pearl of Great Price
The Pearl of Great Price
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Aug 24 Non Conformists and the Book of Common Prayer
Today approximately 2000 puritans resigned their pulpits as deadline came for forced assent to the Book of Common Prayer. We look at the remarkable impact they have had in both Britain and North America
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Aug 23 Brother Roger, the flowering of ecumenism & his violent death
The Taize ecumenical monastic community in France was founded by Roger Schultz in the ashes of WW2. It still attracts thousands of young people every year as a community of reconciliation. Brother Roger was stabbed in the neck by a young ...
Aug 22 Henri de Lubac & Spiritual Worldliness
De Lubac was one of the most influential theologians of the 20th Century. His experience of WW1 and WW2 was followed by 10 years being banned from teaching by the Vatican. He was appointed cardinal by Pope John Paul 2, the first one to be named...
Sep 13 Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov
The final novel of Dostoevsky is possibly his most famous - the Brothers Karamazov. Wrought out of terrible grief and struggles with faith after the death of his three year old son Aloysha. One of Russia's greatest novelists has pro...
Sep 11 Defender of Slaves and indigenous peoples - De La Casas
Bishop Bartholomew De La Casas chronicled the terrible atrocities that Spanish colonists carried out on the indigenous people of Central and South America. He was appointed protector of the Indians by the Spanish Legal Establishment, His ...
