A Letter from Württemberg

Thursdays at Bad Boll · Aug 13, 2026 · 19m

The last post promised the next one in September. A reader had other ideas.

Within a day of the first post, more than thirty people had subscribed; by Sunday it was nearly sixty. One of them was Johannes Oesch, a retired parish pastor of the Evangelical Landeskirche in Württemberg, who wrote the same day to ask two questions — what were my contacts with the church archives in Stuttgart, and with the Evangelical Academy at Bad Boll? The honest answer to both was: none.

Then he sent three pages from a German church history published last year, and in them were two paragraphs and a photograph of…