Light from the Dark Continent by Mark Tooley

Light from the Dark Continent

Africans’ Orthodoxy Steadies United Methodist Church

by Mark Tooley

It was once the oft-stated goal of American missionaries to win Africa to the gospel. But is Africa now helping to win America’s troubled churches back to the gospel?

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Mark Tooley directs the United Methodist committee of the Institute on Religion and Democracy (www.ird-renew.org) in Washington, D.C.

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