A Just Mission
Laying Down Power and Embracing Mutuality

In “A Just Mission”, Mekdes Haddis challenges the fundamental assumptions underlying “Western” mission efforts which fail to recognize the global scope and cultural and ethnic diversity of the church. After recounting her own journey as an Ethiopian Christian to the USA, her encounters with racially......more

I always appreciate authors who don’t throw the baby out with the bath water, who call out what’s wrong AND encourage us to be better. It extends the When Helping Hurts message further toward justice and mutuality. And the chapters on short term missions and money were 🔥.......more

I deeply sympathize with Mekdes Haddis’s reflections about Christian mission voiced in this book. As uncomfortable as it is to many, in my experience Western superiority is a widely held and rarely challenged assumption in evangelical mission efforts. While her book raises important and uncomfortabl......more

This is an overall excellent book by Haddis. While I think some of her points could be better-argued, the book provides so much perspective and food-for-thought to white American churches that I could not bring myself to just give three stars. Would highly recommend for ministers or ministers-in-tra......more

I found myself agreeing with a lot of what Mrs. Haddis discussed throughout this book. It shines a light on how we, as a church, can help improve upon how we go about doing missions in other countries that actually benefit them and not make it a photo op for a “good deed”. I also liked that she brou......more