Julotta are early Christmas morning church services held in Sweden. Churches in America with Swedish roots still hold these services.… Read more Julotta (“Jul”: Yule; Christmas, “otta”: dawn)
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Happy Birthday, Pippi Longstocking!
My third grade teacher, Anne Gillett, read to us almost every day. E.B. White, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Beverly Cleary… Read more Happy Birthday, Pippi Longstocking!
F.O. Nilsson and the Swedish Baptists
After founding a Baptist church in 1848—the first successful “free church” in Sweden—F.O. Nilsson would be arrested, imprisoned, and banished… Read more F.O. Nilsson and the Swedish Baptists