by Bader Mansour | Dec 23, 2016 | Opinion
If you grew up in a Southern Baptist church, you know Lottie Moon. She was a missionary to China for 40 years and has come to personify the missionary spirit of Southern Baptists. My friend, Mike Lee, pastored a church in Scottsville, Virginia, that was founded by...
by David Swartz | Nov 19, 2015 | Opinion
Was missionary work liberating for women? It depended. “Multiple freedoms and multiple opportunities reinforced each other,” writes historian Jane Smith in “The Gospel of Gentility,” “and [female missionaries] described themselves as...
by Leroy Seat | Jan 1, 2013 | Opinion
“Southern Baptists have only one saint and her name is Lottie Moon.” So wrote Texas pastor Chuck Warnock in his fine review of Regina D. Sullivan’s book “Lottie Moon: A Southern Baptist Missionary to China in History and Legend” (2011). ...
by David McCollum | May 15, 2012 | News
For almost a century, Lottie Moon has been a major icon for fundraising for bold mission efforts by the Southern Baptist Convention. She is hailed as a late 19th- and early 20th-century pioneer for efforts on the foreign mission field, particularly to China. She was...
by Chuck Warnock | Aug 16, 2011 | Opinion
While many individuals are held in high esteem in our denomination, Southern Baptists have only one saint and her name is Lottie Moon. Of course, we don’t refer to her as “Saint Lottie,” but the legend that has arisen around her life story qualifies...
