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Reflections, memories, and observations of one man's experiences on the influences of home, school, church, and family. This book is a collection of autobiographical essays written over a period of a number of years. Written with a number of different audiences in mind, such as those interested in the history of 20th century christian life in the Midwest. There is no overall connecting theme to the essays, nor any sequential order, yet the intriguing and often humorous story-telling creates a wonderful thread of rich history with its meaningful soliloquies on church, school, and family life.

You see, Hackleburg Methodist Church is a fictional congregation in rural Indiana, and through the years it's given us characters such as: Marybele Hasselbaum, the head of the Women's Society of Christian Service, who kept everything running smoothly until she unexpectedly died at 82, without a hand-picked successor Lush Larkin, former saloon owner who once was lost but was gloriously found (owner of Susanna, the Methodist dog.) Aunt Minnie Rittenhouse, who shepherded the Jesus' Little Sunbeams class by reading from the Big Blue Bible Story Book and allowing some normal creative destruction....

The astonishing growth of Christianity in the global South over the course of the twentieth century has sparked an equally rapid growth in studies of ''World Christianity, '' which have dismantled the notion that Christianity is a Western religion. What, then, are we to make of the waves of Western missionaries who have, for centuries, been evangelizing in the global South? Were they merely, as many have argued, agents of imperialism out to impose Western values? In An Unpredictable Gospel, Jay Case examines the efforts of American evangelical missionaries in light of this new...