The Landmark 85-Year-Old Report Absent From Debates Over Missionary’s Death
It’s not about what we can learn from Chau but what we’ve already learned from our foreign ventures in past.
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“I Died Inside.”
Young Mormon man is rejected for missionary service after he comes out for equal treatment of LGBT people in LDS Church.
Read MoreLDS Church Drops Missionary Age for Women to 19
Policy shift has far-reaching impact. Pivotal, even.
Read MoreRomney Shovels Walks to No Avail
With doors slamming in the candidate’s face, perhaps it’s time to take a page from Mormon missionaries.
Read MoreDid Jesus Help Ghanaian Women with Birth Control?
Just ask them directly.
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Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame
Ultimately it’s disappointing that Trey Parker and Matt Stone—two of the best satirists around—should have chosen such soft religious targets: missionaries from Utah. The finale to season 14 of South Park (the censured episode about the propriety of depicting Mohammed in a bear costume) was gutsier by far. By comparison, poking fun at clueless Mormon teenagers is a cop-out. It’s a waste of theatrical talent.
Read MoreFrom A Belize Jungle, A Look At Creationist “Outreach” in Vancouver
Answers in Genesis proselytizes to Olympics competitors and spectators.
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Christian Imperialism in Haiti? Missionaries, Theo-tourism, and the Invasion of the Global South
The disaster in Haiti has brought attention to the ways that aid and ignorance sometimes come as a package.
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Missionary Imposition: Idaho Baptists Charged With Kidnapping 33 Haitian Children
Had the inexperienced Idaho missionaries read so much as Haiti’s Wikipedia page they would have learned that the nation has a history of slavery, colonialism, and missions that warns against attempts to remove Haitian children from their home.
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What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?
In an exclusive interview, investigative reporter Mike Reynolds uncovers the special relationship between Iraqi Kurds and a group of American evangelicals that practices “spiritual warfare,” harbors a deep animosity toward Islam, and views the region as the evangelistic final frontier.
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