Stories
the narratives it tells itself
A potter and a carpenter walk to the Caribbean.
On 21 August 1732 Leonhard Dober and David Nitschmann left Herrnhut for St Thomas to preach to enslaved Africans, with about thirty thalers between them. Within thirty years Moravians had gone to Greenland, Suriname, the Cape, Labrador and the Delaware and Cherokee — the first sustained Protestant mission programme anywhere.
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The Scriptures
the texts that carry the stories — and everything elseThe Bible
The Daily Texts (Losungen), published every year since 1731
The Ground of the Unity (1957)
The Church Order of the Unitas Fratrum