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From humble prayer meetings in their home, Paul and Mattie Brown helped birth one of Minnesota’s oldest Black churches. Despite setbacks and exclusion, the congregation built St. James AME in Minneapolis – leaving a lasting symbol of faith and freedom [Read Transcript...]
Minnesota native Duane Pederson moved to California with dreams of entertainment but instead launched —a radical, Jesus-centered publication that sparked a revival. He helped birth one of the largest religious movements in America. [Read Transcript...]
In 1905, eighteen Jewish families met in Virginia, Minnesota, to plan the building of B’nai Abraham, the Iron Range’s first synagogue constructed from the ground up and not fashioned from a repurposed building. [Read Transcript...]
In 1991, writer and poet Kathleen Norris found herself living at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, praying with the monks and eating communally. Britt Aamodt traces Norris’ nine months at the abbey to the publication of her memoir The Cloister Walk. [Read Transcript...]
