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sophia_sol) wrote2020-03-07 08:30 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2020-03-07 08:30 pm
The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever, by Jamie Wright
A nonfiction book by a woman who went to Costa Rica as a missionary for 5 years with her family and ended up realising that the way Christian missions works is super fucked up. She has since become an advocate for mission reform, which is good, though I personally am of the opinion that the correct way to reform the industry is to just remove it altogether.
Wright's a very engaging writer, and I enjoyed reading her book in which she says a lot of true things about the stuff wrong with missions and missionaries in a funny, irreverent, and heartfelt way. And she even jokes at the end that most of her ideas on how to improve Christian missions involve gasoline and a match! But she still seems to remain more of an Evangelical than I'm really comfortable with. IDK.
At any rate I hope her book and her work are successful at least at helping convince well-meaning christians who haven't ever thoughtfully considered the issue that there are problems with missions, since I think that's the audience she's aiming at, not an audience like me.
Wright's a very engaging writer, and I enjoyed reading her book in which she says a lot of true things about the stuff wrong with missions and missionaries in a funny, irreverent, and heartfelt way. And she even jokes at the end that most of her ideas on how to improve Christian missions involve gasoline and a match! But she still seems to remain more of an Evangelical than I'm really comfortable with. IDK.
At any rate I hope her book and her work are successful at least at helping convince well-meaning christians who haven't ever thoughtfully considered the issue that there are problems with missions, since I think that's the audience she's aiming at, not an audience like me.