River City Random ☑️I failed the #LDS #mormon #Church. I ran away as a teenager because I was afraid of serving a #mission. I was told that if I didn't serve a mission I wouldn't be able to hold leadership positions and no woman would ever want me. It was too much pressure for #autistic me. Then I had my records removed because the #missionaries kept finding me everywhere I moved and I couldn't handle the shame. I wonder how my life would have been if I had been what #God expected me to be. #christ #christianity
German Historical Institute London
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseChosun Daily: Yanghwajin Archives Digitizes Edith’s Handprint, 1910s Missionary Photos. “The Yanghwajin Archives recently created a digital archive of over 7,000 items donated by the family of Rosetta Hall, the Welbon (1866–1928, Korean name Oh Wol-beon) missionary who worked in the Andong region, and the family of Jeon Taek-bu (1915–2008), well-known by his pen name Ori.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/04/chosun-daily-yanghwajin-archives-digitizes-ediths-handprint-1910s-missionary-photos/
Greg JohnsonMorris 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?
Rita SingerIn 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
michaelthere 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.
Study finds that missionaries pull from same language toolkit to describe experiences
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.
The Japan TimesWas the Shimabara Rebellion a peasant uprising or a Christian holy war? This month’s Living Past revisits a brutal reckoning that still echoes through Japanese history. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/16/japan/history/christianity-japanese-history-massacre/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #edoperiod #tokugawashogunate #christianity #kyushu #amakusashiro #missionaries
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??
PugJesusThese traveling missionaries are fucking relentless
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1617519/these-traveling-missionaries-are-fucking-relentless
