Thursday, June 20th, 2019

On this day we remember the Synod of Diamper in 1599 and the first mission to Alaska by the Moravians in 1885. Our reading is by Anne Porter entitled "After Psalm 137."

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Today on the Almanac, we remember a man who in the late 19th century was both a pastor and “the most famous man in America.”

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