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Joe LaGuardia, D.Min., is a senior pastor in Florida. His articles have appeared in the Rockdale Citizen, USA Today, Desert Call: Journal of Spirituality, EthicsDaily.com, and Christian Ethics Today.
He is author of three books, most recently A Whispering Call: Essays on Sacred Scripture and the First Testament.
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I hate to bother you about this since I don’t know you, but I had to tell you that Lottie Moon was a missionary herself, not a missionary’s wife. If she was “just” a wife she could not have done most of what she did. Apparently then it was like I was told in the late 1950’s when I asked about missionary service: A woman could go as a missionary (single woman) or if married as the “missionary’s wife”. I’m sure wives did a lot when they got there, but they were not considered “real” missionaries by those running things.
There is a recent, excellent book about her by Regina Sullivan (Lottie Moon:A Southern Baptist missionary to China in history and legend) you might want to read. I see that the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library system near you has it, but if you can’t access their collection there’s always interlibrary loan.
Thank you for the correction! You are correct; she wasn’t married–I think I read somewhere that she spent time with the wives of missionaries and chose not to dress like they did! Thanks again for the sharp eye!
I deleted the sentence. This post also ran for Ethics Daily, so I submitted a correction to them as well.
Blessings, JVL
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