The healthcare we assume isn’t normal. A Christian history is its history. Know your past.

  • Hear about the lack of healthcare for the poor that existed from a charitable motivation prior to the time of Jesus – and how a change in viewpoint was triggered.

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  • Hear the argument that led to an acceptance of the idea that the first ever hospitals to care for the poor were needed.

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  • Hear how the first hospitals in the Middle East, and then in Europe, came about.

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  • Labelled one of the greatest humanitarian movements in history, hear about how this amazing organisation came into being.

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  • Hear about a radical movement who’s charity and love mobilised the first known mobile medical workers.

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  • Hear about the motivations and history that led Florence Nightingale to train thousands to care for the sick and wounded, establish the career of the ‘nurse’ in the way we understand it today.

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  • Hear what motivated Louis Pasteur to engage in scientific study with discipline and rationality, from which new discoveries of bacteria and vaccines came about, saving millions of lives since.

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  • Find out who you have to blame every time your mother tells you to wash your hands – and the difference his discovery made.

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  • Hear about the motivations and resulting discoveries of another man whose work stopped a sickness that consistently killed 20% of the population prior to him.

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  • Hear about the specific movement credited with taking medical care to people in need globally who would never have had it otherwise.

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  • Hear how unique the Christian values of our nation are, which have produced integrity in our society – which has enabled the kinds of charity and care we so value.

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  • Hear why it has been left to Christianity to bring the kind of charity we enjoy to the world, because of the way it brings a unique basis for believing human rights actually exist.

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