Upon conversion, indigenous people often had to get Western haircuts, wear Western clothes, learn Western languages, and even change their names to Western ones. Often they were severed from their indigenous roots, culture, and community altogether. All things had become new, but people were rarely being taught to embody the way of Jesus through loving their enemies, caring for the Samaritan–like other, liberating the oppressed, and being peacemakers, all things Jesus actually taught. Indigenous Christians have often adopted these aspects of Jesus’ ministry subversively and despite the
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