the RCA Global Mission page on the organization’s website claims 233 years of missionary work (“RCA Global Mission,” 2018). The RCA and its missionary work can also be viewed within the overall historical context of colonialism and the evolution of post-colonial missionary work. One of the letters refers to the Beebout’s visit to a former slave trade port in Benin, as the authors reflect on the inhumanity of slavery without mentioning the complicity of Christians with the institution of slavery in the United States.
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A collection of videos and letters offer primary source data about the nature of Jeremy and Susan Beebout’s… Continue Reading...
Outreach, evangelism, and missionary work are methods of broadening the community and fulfilling Christ’s mission. Through worship and prayer, individuals can come to know the glory and grace of God.
As Gorman (2015) points out, it is important to refrain from the false binaries that often plague parishes. Rigidity in implementing God’s mission can be counterproductive. As admirable as it is to be committed to one particular path, being a… Continue Reading...
set standards from which the country would eventually experience. Activities like woman's suffrage and missionary work marked the first part of the temperance organization with Prohibition signaling the major shift. Interest in Prohibition was then turned after 1900 into the Anti-Saloon League and that is when legislation began to shift in favor of a federal ban on alcohol sales and consumption.
As previously stated, those in support of the move did so because they believed alcohol contributed to the larger social problems of society. The members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), believed alcoholism was not a personal failing or weakness, but rather,… Continue Reading...
