William Apess was a Methodist missionary and part Pequot Indian. He says other missionaries abused the children of Mashpee Wampanoag in MA, and in 50 y never converted a soul. Godlier people could have created a truly #Christian society with much less $.

Must we support the official, nominal proponents of the faith, regardless of what they do? Or are we #alwaysreforming ? Theology is for proclamation. Which missionaries described here represent Christianity?

How can you life a Christian life?

John Lathrop, a Boston Congregationalist whose church was burned by the British. Says God does not permit retaliation, decries killing innocents to retaliate for wrongs. He asks what good people must think of such retaliation?

This morning I had a post removed from a Christian forum for saying a columnist ardently defending attacks on Gaza was in favor of “genocide”.

How can you refrain from retaliation in your personal life?

#christian #beagoodperson #alwaysreforming #change #godfearing

Edward A. Lawrence, Sr., Congregationalist minister in New England. He says the mission of the church is Christian beneficence, and so it should found hospitals, dispensaries, and asylums. Systemic assurance all are covered. He says no place such in “ancient heathenism” such as Rome.

Today, would we view hospitals as crowning achievement of the faith, or as touchstones of the culture war?

How can you support such institutions?

#christian #lightworker #breadofheaven #alwaysreforming #hope