By Jennifer Ferry A Cooperative Baptist church is leveraging trust and service as a way to carry the gospel message to a close-knit and highly impoverished Native American community in Mississippi. In the rural town of Decatur, located in one…
Sacred clowns and cusswords
Tony Hillerman writes about Native American culture, mostly about the Navajos. He writes mysteries. I learn a lot about cultures different from mine when I read his novels. For example, in Sacred Clowns, a few folks are watching a Hopi…
Baptists enriched by repeated missions to Sioux
By Jeff Brumley Even the Oglala Lakota Sioux who haven’t embraced Christianity live out gospel values such as family, charity and self-sacrifice, Tennessean Sean Prince says. Prince is the organizer of an annual mission trip to the Pine Ridge Reservation…