• The Magna Carta: The 800 Year Struggle for Human Liberty on June 14, 2015
• I had to miss this because I was hosting my church service tonight.

However:

Updated Sunday evening, 6-14-15: I happened to bring up the Magna Carta 800th anniversary at our church service Sunday night. Our preacher, Marshall Foster, is not just any clergyman.  He also happens to be Presiedent and Founder of The World History Institute, which studies  the effect of Christianity on the development of civilization and government.

He told us that the Magna Carta is more of a religious document than a political document- but it is both. It addressed justice, trial by jury, taxes, freedom- especially religious freedom, consent of the governed and more. He said it was written by Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who persuaded other church officials and powerful barons to insist upon its tenets.

He also told us that John signed it under penalty of death and disavowed it the next day, persuaded the Pope to excommunicate the perpetrators. A war was fought over it, John was losing the war, fled with his gold to the sea, lost it in the ocean, tried to salvage it, caught pneumonia and died days later. The perpetrators were eventually reinstated.

The Magna Carta was fought by succeeeding tyrants, who attempted to supress it, but simply could never fully stamp it out, once these ideas of religious and personal freedom caught the iamgination of the People. It helped eventually lead to the historic English Bill of Rights.

Foster, with Kirk Cameron,  is the co-producer of the groundbreaking Movie MONUMENTAL, which traces and examines the influence of Christianity on the development of government from the Refornation, to the Mayflower Compact and eventually to the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and rule of law in the U.S.