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10 November 2025
The Missionary Kids, by Holly Berkley Fletcher, is about missionary kids (MKs) and evangelicalism. I would recommend reading the book to get a perspective on involving children in serious altruistic work. (Fletcher is not favorable to people with minor kids becoming missionaries.) It could also be a good book to read to see the intersection of evangelicalism, missions, exvangelicalism, narcissism, and culture war. Fletcher, an exvangelical MK, shows the dark side of missions, something good to know about.
MSL/VMH could be an improvement on evangelicalism and exvangelicalism, in that its relatively patient approach to reality avoids some of the combativeness in those two cultures when they focus on "salvation is decided in this life". VMH affirms evangelicalism partially, but offers much more time in which people can be saved, taking the edge off its "wretched urgency" (which could be upstream of its combativeness, suspiciousness, insularity, and bad consequentialism).
MSL/VMH could be a good foundation for a life of altruism, including missions, and its adherents may want to consider the ramifications of that, the ways it can go wrong.