The Civil War had started months earlier because of the right to own slaves and Lincolns election. Today he called for a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer to bring an end to the strife. The war would last another 4 years

When Otto published the idea of the Holy during World War One it was a sensation, soon translated into multiple languages. He coined the term numinous to describe the experience of the Other. Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans

A key moment in English History - the first synod of Bishops which stabilised the church with its diocesan boundaries, unified England and clarified marital practice. We have records because of the first Historian of Christian Europe, a Benedictine Monk from the North East - St Bede

Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov was a Russian theologian, philosopher, poet and amateur artist. He co-founded the Slavophile movement and created a Theology around 'sobornost' or community

Today in 2000 we remember how a quarter of a million Christians clogged the streets, to pay their final respects to the evangelist Bakht Singh who was being buried in Hyderabad, India. It was one of the largest funerals in the history of Hyderabad, but not in India, when compared to other historical figures,

There is growing appreciation of the impact of the non conformist minister. Thomas Byre lifes work. His theorem which was posthumously published has now created a whole school in the field of Statistics

The Korean peninsula is a grassroots church - as it grew without any direct clerical influence for many years. A diplomat brought back the books of the Italian Jesuit Missionary from Beijing, which explained how Christianity was complementary to Confucianism, Now South Korea is the country that sends out the most missionaries around the world (after the United States)

George Herbert - a gifted orator at Cambridge University and then the court of James I. left all that behind to be ordained in the Church of England and work in a rural parish. He poetry published posthumously became very popular in a divided age and he represented the middle ground