Wow. I’m so pleased to find Vinoth Ramachandra’s blog. For me it is such a breath of fresh air! I hosted and helped out a number of such “mission trips” in the Dominican Republic and really resonate with his ideas and the ambiguities such trips involve.

Here is a staggering statistic that I came across recently. Robert Wuthnow, the eminent sociologist of religion at Princeton University has estimated that up to 1.6 million American Christians take part in overseas “mission trips” each year, with churches spending at least $2.4 billion per year on such trips. What is unsurprising is that many of these 1-3 week “mission trips” are to the Caribbean and Central America, with luxury resorts such as t … Read More

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