Before trying to live like Christ you must first live, worship, talk and dress like me … embracing all my legalistic rules and empty traditions.
In an off-hand remark in his elephant-hunting memoirs from the 1930s, John “Pondoro” Taylor quipped that the African missionaries that seemed most effective and had the longest-lasting impact were the White Fathers.
60 years ago the White Fathers were notorious among other missionary organizations, who considered them suspect trouble-makers for two reasons: the White Fathers didn’t try to “convert” Africans into Europeans.
And because the White Fathers thundered around Africa on motorcycles.
