I am teaching a History of Missions class at Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary. Again, I have been struck at two streams of missions work. The first might be called "Power Missions." The other might be called "Weakness Missions." Others have written on this (at least one that I know of), but I feel that not …
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The Ambiguities of Courage, and Christian Missions
Back in 2001, after the "9-11" incident, US President George W. Bush described the zealots (or perhaps terrorists) who flew airplanes into the World Trade Center towers as "cowards." This led to some interesting conversations. After all, people who fought off fear and self-preservation could hardly be called cowardly, right? Part of the problem lay …
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