If you went to the Good Friday Vespers service at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig 300 years ago, the choir, led by your cantor J. S. Bach, would have performed a little number, the St. John Passion, that would have doubtless moved you greatly as a meditation on the atoning death of Jesus Christ. An account of a performance and its meaning.
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the birth of Richard Baxter, an influential Lutheran theologian getting his theology doctorate, and the formation of the United States Christian Commission.
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