Short stories tagged with Missionary

Listing 5 stories.

A well-intentioned, if naive, British cleric is eager to educate a West African village about the benevolent power of God. But as slavers encroach, he begins to question his purpose as well as his humanity.

A sixty-year-old ex-missionary takes an emotional pilgrimage to her first home in India and makes a new friend along the way.

A missionary preaches to a village in Mexico but faces utter alienation.

In a mountainous Haitian village, a missionary has his work interrupted by an unexpected guest who is a stranger to the local culture and blends African spirituality with Christian religion.

As part of his sentence, a young man attends a declining Mission in Rhodesia and falls for a girl who has been ostracized by her community due to her father’s profession as a cremator.