Welcome to Episode #70 with author Mekdes Haddis. Her debut book is called “A Just Mission. Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality.” Listeners who have read Rohadi’s book, When We Belong, will know the nascent Ethiopian connection formative to his journey in deconstructing Christianity. We launch off from his story to draw into Mekdes and her formation as an evangelical Christian in Ethiopia, how her perspectives are different than western thought, and how that may inform the way the church can conduct missions, but more importantly, how we all can find life giving church community outside of white hegemony.

Episode Summary

• Deconstructing Western missions and power systems. 0:00
• Identity, culture, and ministry. From Ethiopia to America. 4:15
• Christianity in Ethiopia and the role of missions. 9:51
• Missionary work and cultural context in Ethiopia. 15:15
• The introduction of evangelicalism in Ethiopia. 25:08
• Decoloniality and contextualization in Ethiopian evangelicalism. 29:44
• How contextual Ethiopian evangelicalism can inform mission in the West. 34:00
• Finding our humanity and through mutuality in our faith. 44:00

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