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9 mins read|12/06/20The year was 1925. We remember a Dr. Gene Scott All-Star, Russell Conwell. Our reading is an Advent prayer written by Walter Brueggeman.
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9 mins read|12/05/20The year was 1484. We remember the Papal Bull "Summis Desiderantes Affectibus." The reading is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a favorite quote from his "God Is In the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas."
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9 mins read|12/04/20The year was 1964. We remember Dr. Paul Carlson, a medical missionary. The reading is from Madeleine L’Engle, “First Coming.”
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9 mins read|12/03/20The year was 1852. We remember Isabel “Belle” Harris Bennett. The reading is the final stanza of T.S. Eliot’s “The Cultivation of Christmas Trees.”
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10 mins read|12/02/20The year was 1980. We remember Sisters Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel. The reading is "The House of Christmas" by G. K. Chesterton.
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11 mins read|12/01/20The year was 1521. We remember Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici, aka Pope Leo. The reading is "Advent Calendar" by Rowan Williams.
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9 mins read|11/30/20The year was 1892. We remember philologist and theologian Fenton John Anthony Hort. The reading is an excerpt from Psalm 119, verses 105-107, from the Scottish Metrical Psalter.
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8 mins read|11/29/20The year was 1833. We remember the preacher Lemuel Haynes, with a reading recorded by a friend.
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9 mins read|11/28/20The year was 1902. We remember Joseph Parker. The reading is a one-sentence quote from Joseph Parker.
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10 mins read|11/27/20The year was 1095. We remember the First Crusade. Our reading is a selection from Isaiah, chapter 2.
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8 mins read|11/26/20The year was 1731. We remember hymn writer William Cowper and read his "Light Shining out of Darkness."
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8 mins read|11/25/20The year was 1935. We remember Korean Christian Sun Chu Kil. The reading is a poem "This Year" by Ku Sang, translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé.
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