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Missionaries For Post-Christian America
The American Conservative ^ | 06-17-2016 | Rod Dreher

Posted on 06/17/2016 7:48:55 AM PDT by NRx

The Fulbright scholarships are prestigious awards, funded by Congress, to hundreds of US academics and others to provide opportunities for study abroad. It is administered by the US State Department. A reader recently underwent a short course preparing incoming Fulbright scholars for their overseas deployment. He is going to study in a developing country. He tells me he was shocked by the instruction in gender ideology his group was put through as part of their briefing. They were instructed, he said to think about how they can be “an ally” to sexual minorities abroad.

He reports that his group sat through a speech about how backwards most foreign cultures are on sex and gender, and how they would all be ambassadors for cultural change in those benighted societies. Said the reader, “Any sensitivity toward differing cultural norms was couched entirely in pragmatic terms, relating, for example, to personal safety.”

He is a scholar with extensive experience living in the developing world, and this offended him. “The truly insane part, as I see it, is that this is a cultural exchange program. Ostensibly we are supposed to be fostering mutual understanding. [But] the message was clear: we are the tip of the spear of American cultural imperialism, and we are going to change these backwards traditional cultures whether they like it or not.”

He sent images of the handouts he and his fellow Fulbright scholars received. For example:...

(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; humanism; missionaries; postchristian

1 posted on 06/17/2016 7:48:55 AM PDT by NRx
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To: NRx
A HARVEST SOWN BY GENERATIONS PAST: CBN NEWS ARTICLE

EXCERPT:For centuries, England sent missionaries to Africa. But in recent years, it's the Africans who have been bringing the gospel to England. In fact, the fastest growing church in England is now pastored by a Nigerian who is a former Muslim. So why is this evangelistic turnabout taking place?

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London is home to nearly 12 million people. It is a city with enormous economic and political impact, but according to Ashimolowo, it is spiritually deficient. He believes God has placed a mandate on him and other African pastors to have an impact on the city of London.

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It is no secret that the church in England is in dire straits. Ashimolow says 32,000 people leave the Anglican Church each year. Out of 37,000 churches in England, about 24,000 have 100 or fewer members, while 8,000 churches have 50 people in attendance. Fifty-four percent of the 37,000 churches do not have teen-agers, and 41 percent do not have babies.

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Ashimolow says England is not the only place God is using African preaches to bring the Living Water of God to a spiritually dry country. He says several Russian and Ukrainian churches also boast thousands of members, and they are pastored by Nigerians. He calls that another "living sign and wonder" to the church.

2 posted on 06/17/2016 7:59:49 AM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: mainestategop

Funny—how the Marxists/Socialists could make male/female into a fluid “construct” (no Reality/No Objective Truth/No God)-—and reverse 2000 years of Ethics and “Thinking” from the AGE OF REASON which created Modern Science and Brilliance-—back to the pagan irrational, puerile days where Slavery is Freedom, Vice is Virtue and Insanity is Good.

No Christianity-—no Free Will and Individualism—individual Natural Rights from God——concept ERASED in children and BANNED by our “Justice” (virtue) System which now just promotes Satanism, Atheism, Mother Earth Worship and Ba’al Rites of sodomy/mutilation/drugging.

Without Virtue, there is no Freedom (even the Ancient Greek philosophers knew that Truth (God) is necessary for Good and Evil.

We now celebrate Vice and mutilation of self/body and destruction of our sexual instincts in our little children by denying a mother/father paradigm and forcing children into indoctrination systems of artificial, controlled emotions-—all Mind Constrol by the State/Movies/TV to determine desires/attitudes (thinking—lol) of your children-—totally removed from Reality where boys are girls..


3 posted on 06/17/2016 8:18:33 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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America has become a missionary field again.


4 posted on 06/17/2016 9:10:32 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: NRx

bump


5 posted on 06/17/2016 11:37:31 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We can't fix a rigged system by relying on the people who rigged it." --Donald Trump, 6/7/16)
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