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Issue 90 : Adoniram & Ann Judson: American Mission Pioneers

Originally published in 2006

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Adoniram & Ann Judson: Did You Know?

Interesting and little-known facts about the Judsons and other early American missionaries.

Rebecca Golossanov
Adoniram & Ann Judson: From the Editor - American Dreams

Jennifer Trafton
Living History

In New Orleans, the saints go marching on.

Compiled By Chris Armstrong
Seats of learning

Why we sit in church.

Jennifer Woodruff Tait
Let Freedom Ring

The young American republic was ready to break new frontiers-at home and abroad. It's no wonder missionary pioneers Adoniram and Ann Judson were the "American Idols" of their day.

Ruth A. Tucker
The Man Who Gave the Bible to the Burmese

As a preacher, Translator, prisoner, Husband, and homeland hero, Adoniram Judson demonstrated his conviction that a missionary is a missionary for life.

Richard Pierard
The Mother of Modern Missions

By bravely going where no American wife had gone before, Ann Hasseltine Judson inspired generations of women to become missionaries.

Dana L. Robert
The Golden Kingdom

What was the exotic, distant land of Burma like? Ann Judson's memoirs gave 19th-century Americans a Provocative glimpse.

James Homer Thrall
Timeline

The Early Missions Movement: America goes global
From Sea to Shining Sea

Separation, seasickness, and study prepared early American missionaries for the ardors of the work ahead.

Stephen R. Berry
Go, Ye Heralds of Salvation

The music of missions

John W. Worst
Lord, Send Us

A Kaleidoscope of evangelists

Sarah Johnson and Eileen Moffett
Unforgettable

Both near and far, the Judson legacy endures.

Rosalie Hall Hunt
Fighting the Other Slave Trade

Women against sexual trafficking.

Lisa Thompson
From Azusa Street to the ends of the earth

Gary B. McGee
Uniting Personal Faith and the Larger Church

What I learned from reading the letters of Ignatius of Antioch.

Patrick Henry Reardon

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