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The Greatest Risk

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Jim Elliot, seen above, died at age 28 on the banks of the Curaray River in Ecuador, on January 8, 1956. He left behind his wife Elisabeth and their daughter Valerie, who had not yet reached her first birthday. Elliot, his friend Nate Saint, and three other missionary companions had spent months trying to… Read more »

The Missionary Effect

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Mark Twain cherished no love for Christian missionaries.  In 1872, the famous author and satirist declared, “Hawaiians enjoyed an idyllic life before the missionaries braved a thousand privations to come and make them permanently miserable by telling them how beautiful and blissful a place heaven is, and how nearly impossible it… Read more »