Today is the last day of Christmas, so we explore the origins of Twelfth Night Festivities and answer the question why does Christmas last 12 days?

The Boys Scouts becomes a worldwide movement today in 1912 as the Scout Association was incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter. Today's pod looks at how the promise to do my duty to God has waxed and waned over the years&nb...

The amazing story of Father Damian, the apostle of lepers, who was born today in 1840

Today the Anglican Priest John Newton introduced a new hymn called I Chronicles 17.16-172 this has since became known as Amazing Grace, We look at how it has  become one of the most popular hymns of all time 

We look at how Abraham Lincoln saved the constitution and kept the country together - but wasn't able to change the constitution to acknowledge the deity

The ground breaking film Ben Hur was based on the novel that was voted the most influential Christian Book of the 19th Century.  It tells the fictional story of a Jewish prisoner, who encounters Christ  and eventually is freed from sl...

Thomas Beckets murder in Canterbury Cathedral made him one of the most popular saints of the medieval period and Canterbury became a pilgrimage destination for many from around Europe

John Wycliffe was a reforming priest from the 14th Century.  However he grew more critical and distant from the Pope and Church and inspired a group called the Lollards.  Sometimes he is called the evening star of scholasticism and th...

The building that has become iconic in Istanbul, today was consecrated as a church 'The Holy Wisdom',  Under the Ottomans it became a mosque, Attaturk turned into a museum and Erdogan has turned it back into a mosque

The first nurses on a US Navy hospital ship where 3 sisters from the Order of the Holy Cross - this is their story during the US Civil war

The Philocalus Calendar is the first time we have Christmas Day recorded as an annual feast 

Francis of Assisi is credited of inventing the Live Crib at  his hermitage at Greccio in Italy, this is the story of it 

Antonio Bosio was a remarkable man who discovered many of the catacombs in Rome.  He often  risked his life exploring them, risking getting lost for ever

Today we look at the papacy of Saint Innocent  I who according to St Jerome was the son of the previous pope, which was not a cause for scandal 

Dorothy Sayers wrote a cycle of radio plays about the life of Jesus Christ that has been repeated and reproduced on multiple occasions

The Buddleia or butterfly bush has become prolific, whilst many countries consider it an invasive species.  It was named by Carl Linneaus after a mild mannered Anglican cleric - Adam Buddle

Westminster Abbey has become one of the most iconic and important churches in England, the site of many coronations, weddings and burials of Kings and Queens.  Recently the site of the Unknown Warrior - the only grave that you can't walk o...

The Swiss theologian Hans Kung was very influential as the youngest 'periti' or expert  of Vatican 2. As he his theology became more liberal he was banned from teaching by the Vatican 

Today we look at the life of Sister Mary Keller - the first person to be awarded a PHD in computer science in America alongside Irving Tang. Her legacy includes being part of the group that delivered the pioneering computer language of BASIC

Today we remember the death of Elizabeth Ten Boom in a concentration camp. Just before she died she told her sister Corrie "There is no pit so deep that He [God] is not deeper still." 

One of the most creative minds of recent times was the mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson, who was given the nickname the cosmic genius.   He called himself a non-denominational Christian and had strong views on faith and science

St John of the Cross is now famous for his Dark Night.  He believed that God was nothing and everything, this is the story of the Carmelite reformer and how he suffered

Saint Lucy was one of the most popular saints in the early church and devotion to her still lasts in many parts of the world 

Today was the day when an image was left miraculously on the Tilma of Juan Diego during Our Lady's second apparition to him on the hill of Guadalupe. We look at the image and the recent tests done on it