missionaries

I recently struck up a conversation on Facebook with an old high school friend. She spent 15 years on a mission in Thailand and works in personnel for the missionary group now in Colorado. She has four great kids (only 1 under 18), wonderful husband and is an all-around swell person...

The recent brouhaha regarding the condemnation of gays in Uganda has got me wondering. We fight a lot with the pious twits in our home nations because they are in our face. But what can be done to counter the effects of missionaries in developing third-world countries? While I have no doubt...

Did anyone here this story on Weekend Edition Sunday this morning about the language of the Piraha people in Brazil? Dan Everett went there as a Christian missionary in his 20's, learned their difficult language over a few years, but couldn't get them to convert to Christianity. Apparently...

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What do you think about missionaries, you know the kind that go to 'godless' countries and try to convert everyone.

My morning cartoons were interrupted by the doorbell. Looking in the window I saw a guy in white shirt and tie, guessed it was a missionary and was right. Spent a good half hour debating with him. Probably a little taken aback when I said had read the bible and book of mormon. Told him how...