Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

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Today marks the 190th anniversary of the birth of Ramakrishna, the Bengali temple priest and religious teacher whose influence on modern Hin...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

The bishop in Buganda

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James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, was shot dead 140 years ago today, with his own rifle, executed - along with 50 or so...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Do what thou wilt

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‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law [. . .] I am aflame with the brandy of the thought that I am the sublimest Mystic in all hi...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

State-created crime

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One Rev. John William Horsley was born 170 years ago today. Although not much remembered, he was a social reformer of great character - as m...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

William Derham - natural philosopher

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William Derham, an English clergyman and natural philosopher, died 230 years ago today. He was best known for his works on natural theology ...
Thursday, April 3, 2025

This remarkable day

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‘The road was alive with ox carts returning from the fields, vendors selling coconuts - signaled by an upright palm frond - and women walkin...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Clumsy by being over-sincere

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‘If as a diarist he is often clumsy by being over-sincere, as a student he devotes too much effort to transcribing his sources and too littl...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Malcolm X uninterrupted

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Malcolm X, one of the US’s most influential black activists, was assassinated 60 years ago today. He was not yet 40. Having come from a depr...