BABY’S ON A MISSION: GetReligion looks at a fascinating article about whether short-term mission trips really do more for their participants’ spiritual lives than e.g. short-term LSD trips. The comments are also really, really interesting, which is why I’m linking you to GR rather than to the initial article.

ps: Apparently the cd I wanted to link y’all to, in the title of this post, has never existed. Uh, if you ever get a chance to pick up the Huggy Bear/Bikini Kill (very much in that order, for me) split record, you grab it and tell ’em I sent you.

[eta: Sorry! The Post article is actually primarily about the effect of short-term mission trips on the material well-being of the people on whom the missionaries are sprung. But the GR comments get into the spiritual issues on both sides….]