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Seeding Innovation

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Posted on April 25, 2008 - 8:48am at The Entrepreneurial Mind
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Ideablob.com attracts a large number of ideas for social ventures. This one caught my attention as continue as guest advisor for this week.

Missions As An Instrument of Self-Righteousness and Racial Superiority

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Posted on February 13, 2008 - 4:24am at Trying to Follow
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It is the sin of pride and arrogance that has tended to vitiate [corrupt] the missionary impulse and to make of it an instrument of self-righteousness on the one hand and racial superiority on the other. -Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited [brackets mine]

Thurman manages to point out a very very large speck in the eye of his brother church goers in just one sentence. Again, he writes to a pre-Civil Rights audience in the USA, but his words still ring s

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