Morris Officer, founder of the first Lutheran mission in Liberia, looked squarely at the slave trade and could bear it no longer. He prayed that every trace of that cruel traffic would be washed away. His response wasn’t theory, but repentance and hope. What injustices do we dare to pray would be cleansed from our own world—and our own hearts?
Alexander Duff—missionary and later Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland—describes seeing farm laborers crushed by high interest, producing hunger amid abundance, and being met with what he calls “unimpressible apathy.” Even while writing on evangelism, he refused to ignore economic exploitation. Is naming such suffering a distraction from faith, or part of it? How will you show sympathy that actually moves you to act?
In the second half of the nineteenth century, several #Asian #missionaries visited #Wales
and spoke to Welsh congregations about the difficult circumstances under which they carry out their work.
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/some-cursory-notes-on-asian-missionaries-in-victorian-wales/
#histodons #India #Kurdistan #Palestine #history #Bywgraffiadur
there are 2 million #Christian #missionaries according to this PR, now this is shocking. Seeing that it's the 21st century shouldn't we accept other cultures rather than trying to convert people?
I think there shouldn't be any, the whole concept should be banned and considered a criminal activity.
As nearly 2 million Christian missionaries worldwide step off on long- and short-term assignments annually, a new study from UConn and University of Oklahoma researchers finds that upon return, they consistently draw on the same communication strategies to talk about their experiences abroad and the difficulties of returning home. From the use of metaphors to the recalling of memorable messages, the missionaries included in the study also routinely pulled from biblical vernacular to describe how they were feeling and used the personification of God to find comfort in their situations, researchers say.
George Grenfell, a Baptist missionary in the Congo Free State, admitted an awkward truth: many locals avoided missionaries. Fair enough—they associated Christians with the slave trade, so why expect good intentions?
Today, mention injustice alongside Christianity and some defend the injustice itself.
Grenfell saw three camps: the slavers, those calling slavery biblical, and those risking their lives to oppose it while preaching Christ. Still uncomfortably familiar??
These traveling missionaries are fucking relentless
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1617519/these-traveling-missionaries-are-fucking-relentless
This is a tedious hit piece that gets re-run every few years. It always makes the same mistakes.
(1) overlooking the colonization of South Asia and Burma by British troops, Protestant missionaries, and capitalists, which is directly responsible for both Hindu Sangh Parivar violence (like Modi and the RSS/VHP) and Buddhist ethnic nationalism in Sri Lanka and Burma
(2) setting up a "wow, gosh, everyone thinks Buddhism is peaceful" straw man argument - look at the Mongols, Japanese Zen during the early 20th century, modern Korean Buddhism (nationalist and happy with military service), the Khampas who fought a guerilla war against the PLA.... it's only hand-wringing elites drenchef in colonial power who don't actually know the history of Buddhists worldwide.
(3) Treating Buddhist lineages worldwide as all part of a single "religion" -- itself a colonial idea enforced by European Christian missionaries, and now inescapably part of the post-colonial trap.
"Too often missions are less a relationship that challenges and matures the American church and more a pleasing product to consume, a beautiful reflection upon which to gaze.”
~ Ibid.
#WhiteChristianNationalism #missionaries #evangelicalism #Trump
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