Today the church remembers John Muir, Naturalist and Writer, 1914, and Hudson Stuck, Priest and Environmentalist, 1920.

Lots of folks know how Muir was a huge part in creating our national parks. But fewer know about Stuck.

Like Muir he was an immigrant to the USA

He was born in London and moved to the USA. He worked as a cowboy and teacher before going to @SewaneeSeminary and being ordained as @iamepiscopalian priest in 1892. From there he moved to Dallas and served at the cathedral. Then off to Alaska

In Dallashe founded a night school for millworkers, a home for indigent women, and St. Matthew's Children's Home. In 1903 he gained passage in Texas of the first state law against child labor. He regularly preached and wrote against lynching—which was rife in Texas

In Alaska he planted churches by dogsled, working with a group of episcopal women missionaries, including Deaconess Clara M. Carter and Clara Heintz.

Stuck wrote and published five books, memoirs of his times in Alaska, revealing the exploitation of the Alaska Native peoples that he witnessed in his work. Two of Stuck's books were edited by Maxwell Perkins who also edited Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe

He led the first expedition to the summit of Denali taking scientific measurements to determine its elevation. His measure of 20,384 ft was later made more precise by the United States Geological Survey in 2015 is 20,310 ft—not bad for 1913

He erected a homemade and a 6ft Cross.

He spent the rest of his life in Alaska. His native disciples and he gained federal recognition for Reservations to protect the oft exploited population. Like most missioners there, he never married and was buried in the native cemetery