Lottie Moon
Civil Commotion is, and has been, a must read. Bob Felton truly goes after the hypocrites and demagogues of our society. His latest post on Lottie Moon is no exception.
Just now is the height of the Southern Baptists’ annual Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, and today is the anniversary of her birth in 1840. A missionary to China, she is routinely described as “the nearest thing Protestants have to a saint.”
Famously, she broke off her engagement to the scholar Crawford Toy because he doubted the literal truth of Genesis, and she has ever since been held up as the exemplar toward which all believers should strive. Budding pastors are encouraged to cite her example to their congregations, to steer, and be steered, by it.
Almost never do they remark that acute loneliness was the central theme of her life, a constant refrain in her letters home.