Three untruths have coddled the American missionary mind. I summarized them in my previous post. The Untruth of Fragility: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker The Untruth of Emotional Reasoning: Always trust your feelings The Untruth of Us Versus Them: Life is a battle between good people and evil people. These untruths are the focus of Haidt and Lukianoff’s The Coddling of the American Mind (which is the most important book I read from 2018). In this post, we apply them… Read more

The most significant, insightful, and provocative book of 2018, in my opinion, was The Coddling of the American Mind (by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff). I’m far from the first person to make that claim. However, fewer people have identified ways that the book’s key ideas might impact the church and especially missionaries. This post prepares us to do just that. The book expands on the authors’ article originally published in The Atlantic. I cannot write a summary that could possibly… Read more