The Quagmire of Modern Missions (#70) (Re-broadcast)

Religion on the Mind

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Religion

4.7 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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*Re-broadcast* - The Quagmire of Modern Missions (#70) Original Description: I interview Jim and Breanna Randall, missionaries (if you want to call them that) in Myanmar. We talk about the various pitfalls that are present in modern day missions work (bad actors, psychologists breaking their oaths to do no harm, donor fragility, American/White Exceptionalism, and more), as well as some more hopeful potential ways forward. CORRECTION: I said Jamie Lee Finch was the “Worst Missionary,” but that is actually Jamie Wright Breanna’s Francis Chan piece: https://faithfullymagazine.com/myanmar-francis-chan-ministry/ Desmond Tutu Children’s Bible: https://smile.amazon.com/Children-Storybook-Bible-Archbishop-Desmond/dp/0310719127/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=desmond+tutu+bible&qid=1592798668&s=books&sr=1-1Unsettling Truths: https://smile.amazon.com/Unsettling-Truths-Dehumanizing-Doctrine-Discovery/dp/0830845259/ref=sr_1_2dchild=1&keywords=unsettling+truths&qid=1592798645&s=books&sr=1-2 Dangerous Territory: https://smile.amazon.com/Dangerous-Territory-Misguided-Quest-World/dp/1627075976/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=dangerous+territory&qid=1592798554&sr=8-1 Assimilate or Go Home: https://smile.amazon.com/Assimilate-Go-Home-Missionary-Rediscovering/dp/0062388800/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=assimilate+or+go+home&qid=1592798542&sr=8-1 Decolonizing Wealth: https://www.decolonizingwealth.com/ Breanna‘s twitter: @randallbreanna Breanna’s Instagram: @br_randall Kaitlin Curtice: https://kaitlincurtice.com/ Christina Cleveland: http://www.christenacleveland.com/ No White Saviors: https://nowhitesaviors.org/ Support the Randalls: https://burmachronicle.com/blog/ ___________________________________________ Follow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKoch Faith deconstruction resources: www.soyouredeconstructing.com/ Edited by Josh Gilbert (joshgilbertmedia.com -- he is accepting more work!) Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: youhavepermissionpodcast@gmail.com YHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: www.dankochwords.com/yhp.html Join Dan's email list: www.dankochwords.com/ Artwork by sprungle.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Attention.
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0:34.1	My name is Dan Koch. Like many of you, I've been on a complicated faith journey for a number of years now.
0:40.9	And while I tend to find myself on the progressive side of Christianity, my goal is not to make liberal converts.
0:48.1	I want this show to be a resource for Christians to my right and to my left, as well as former Christians and non-religious
0:55.0	folks, anyone who finds themselves asking difficult questions about God, science, prayer,
1:03.0	fate, suffering, evangelism, and more. So many of us have been given bad answers to those good questions, often by people with pure intentions.
1:13.6	I want to say that you have permission to take both Christianity and the modern world very seriously.
1:21.6	And I hope to facilitate that by introducing you to people seeking God across the Christian spectrum, engaging hard questions
1:29.5	in a multitude of ways. Thanks for listening.
1:39.2	Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, everybody.
1:42.6	Usually around this time of year, we will rebroadcast a popular
1:47.0	previous episode from like a few years back or one that we think is particularly interesting or
1:53.2	relevant. And this week, Kristen Tidman, our media guru, she has selected our rebroadcast, which is the quagmire of modern missions released in June of 2020, right around the death of George Floyd.
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