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At an August 1967 mission conference in Montreat, North Carolina, Jorge Lara-Braud offered his Presbyterian audience a vision of American exceptionalism that depended on mutuality and solidarity. He argued that the United States, at the peak of its post-Second World War power, might be uniquely redeemable by its humility...

The only Christian hospital in Gaza, Al Ahli Hospital was organized in 1882 by the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem. In the aftermath of the 1948 war and Egyptian occupation of Gaza, the hospital was operated by the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. The Baptists withdrew in 1982, a century after the hospital's founding, and an international coalition of funders stepped in, among them Church World Service, Dan-Church-Aid, and the...