Blog Archives: February 2019

I am a fourth-generation missionary. I grew up in rural northern Bangladesh with my parents, grandparents, and two younger siblings. I say rural, but the region has a population density higher than that of Toronto. The country contains a population half the size of the United States’ in a land area about equal to that of Illinois. About eighty percent of those people are Muslim, twenty Hindu, and less than one percent are either Christian or Buddhist. This upbringing hewed out the rough contours of my life. My aim since I was about ten has ...