Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Published: Aug. 21, 2019, 9 a.m.

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On this day in 1741, Handel began composing his most famous work, the oratorio "Messiah." Today, we also remember Alexander Konstantin von Oettingen, Lutheran pastor and statistician, who died in 1905. The reading is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer on forgiveness from "Letters and Papers from Prison."

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