Žohnowane hody (that’s “Merry Christmas” in Upper Sorbian, aka Wendish) from Lee County, Texas!* It’s been a few days since I’ve posted any history, but I’ve been saving this one up for all y’all because it’s seasonally appropriate! (Okay, truth be told I wrote this before Christmas and it’s been just waiting for me to …
Today we dropped by the Texas Wendish Heritage Museum in Serbin to pick up some things for Christmas gifts. Yep, you guessed it. I took a few pictures in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church too. Just a few. Only one hundred and sixteen between our stops there and in Warda and Fedor. After all, we had …
On Monday, I re-discovered my copy of The WPA Guide to Texas. (Moving is awful, y’all… a year and a half later, and my library is still disorganized. That may or may not be because I spend more time taking photos and driving around Texas than organizing it, or because I keep buying more books. But …
Let all mortal flesh keep silenceAnd with fear and trembling stand;Ponder nothing earthly minded,For with blessing in His handChrist our God to earth descendingComes our homage to demand. Whew… for some reason things are a little busy here at LSBR HQ! We enjoyed our time at Wendish Fest on Sunday. It was good to see …
In 1873 the rift between Pr. Kilian and his long-time organist, cantor, and friend Carl Teinert had grown so great that Teinert left Kilian’s congregation and helped found the church that is now Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Warda. Three years passed before Kilian and Teinert met again, at the installation of Pr. Proft at …
There’s been no small amount of discussion of baptismal sponsors in our home over the last few days, partly because, God willing, our soon-to-be-born child will be baptized at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Thorndale in early October, but also because of my post from a few days back about Pr. Kilian baptizing the firstborn …
Tomorrow, Margie and I will be heading back to Lee County to visit the Wendish Museum again. If we keep this up we’re going to need to get a weekend home out that way! This photo of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Serbin was taken late in the day during our previous trip out.
The members of Rev. Kilian’s congregation who broke away and formed the first St. Peter’s Lutheran Church (see “A time to tear apart…” for more details) styled themselves as “the little flock” in their letter to the church council of the congregation from which they were withdrawing. The congregation first sought to affiliate with the Missouri Synod …
Usually it’s a good thing when we open up our mailbox and find a letter inside (I mean of the personal variety, not the prequalified credit card offers and other junk that make up the bulk of correspondence we receive these days). In the last few years I’ve gotten into the habit of regularly sending …
When it comes to the study of history, generalization is (in general) a problem. (See what I did there?) That being said, it’s difficult to begin the study of any historical event without starting with generalities. One such generality is “the Wends came to Texas to preserve their language and culture.” In general, that is …
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