Kresta in the Afternoon – October 18, 2019 – Hour 2
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+ Kresta Comments: The Story of the Auca Missionaries
- Description: As part of our discussion on the Amazon Synod, Al looks at another story of evangelizing the region - the story of Nate Saint and the Auca missionaries.
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God in the Rainforest: A Tale of Martyrdom and Redemption in Amazonian Ecuador
In January of 1956, five young evangelical missionaries were speared to death by a band of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two years later, two missionary women--the widow of one of the slain men and the sister of another--with the help of a Wao woman were able to establish peaceful relations with the same people who had killed their loved ones. The highly publicized deaths of the five men and the subsequent efforts to Christianize the Waorani quickly became the defining missionary narrative for American evangelicals during the second half of the twentieth century. God in the Rainforest traces the formation of this story and shows how Protestant missionary work among the Waorani came to be one of the missions most celebrated by Evangelicals and most severely criticized by anthropologists and others who accused missionaries of destroying the indigenous culture. Kathryn T. Long offers a study of the complexities of world Christianity at the ground level for indigenous peoples and for missionaries, anthropologists, environmentalists, and other outsiders. For the first time, Long brings together these competing actors and agendas to reveal one example of an indigenous people caught in the cross-hairs of globalization. (learn more)
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+ Brazilian Bishop: Yes, Amazon People Can Understand Celibacy (2 segments)
- Description: A retired bishop from Brazil has spoken out against the claim that married priests are necessary in the Amazon region because the indigenous people do not understand celibacy. Bishop Emeritus Jose Azcona wrote “It’s not the indigenous culture that finds insurmountable difficulties in understanding celibacy. It's that there was not a real inculturation of the Gospel among them” adding “the first step in solving the problem of celibacy is not the abolition of it,” but to work toward a more authentic incultration of the Gospel.” Matthew Bunson has more in our Synod update
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Dr. Matthew Bunson
Matthew Bunson is Executive Editor of EWTN News and a Senior Fellow at St Paul Center for Biblical Theology. He’s the author or co-author of more than 50 books including the first English-language biography of Pope Francis and The Encyclopedia of Catholic History. Follow him on twitter at MattBunson. Register Radio airs Saturdays at 7 pm and Sundays at 11 am.
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A Place Of Peace – November 14, 2020