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Much of Washington in 2018 arguably has more in common with the country’s hippest neighborhoods — Williamsburg in New York, Silver Lake in Los Angeles, the Inner Mission in San Francisco — than it does with the less cool cities of middle America.

A catalog note explains that the women probably were members of a Christian revival movement called the Inner Mission, to which Ancher’s mother and three sisters belonged.

But the San Francisco Tax Assessor’s Office made that argument last week — with a straight face — in the case of Jon Stuber and his modest two-bedroom, one-bath condominium in the inner Mission.

He resigned his presidency of the Lutheran Inner Mission Society, stopped preaching, canceled a lecture tour.

In 1856 Rosenius, together with many earnest-minded ecclesiasts and leaders in the Established Church, organized the National Evangelical Foundation, which originally was intended to promote home and inner mission activities.