Robert Woodberry says Christian missions have profoundly benefitted people – though not always.
We spoke to more than 50 scholars and other experts in the course of making the documentary For the Love of God: How the church is better and worse than you ever imagined.
This collection is a way of making their formidable expertise available to you, in a format that we hope can be navigated and used as easily as possible.
We'll be adding to it over the coming months, so make sure you come back regularly to see what's new. We hope you will explore, enjoy, and share these many moments of clarity, insight, sorrow, excitement, and personal reflection.
Robert Woodberry says Christian missions have profoundly benefitted people – though not always.
Robert Woodberry says they differed crucially in their approaches to church and state, and to mass education.
Robert Woodberry offers some examples of where the enduring impact of missionaries is clearly visible.
Robert Woodberry explains how and why conversion and social improvement generally went hand in hand.
Robert Woodberry explains that some of his favourite missionaries truly adapted to the cultures they worked in.
Robert Woodberry gives the example of D. F. Malan, an architect of apartheid in South Africa.
