![]() ![]() Directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, the wife-and-husband team behind Boys State, seek to understand Chau and the culture that drove him into what even a fellow church friend describes as “pursuing a fantasy.” That culture has deep roots in colonialism, a hyper-Christianized field of boys’ adventure stories, and what Chau’s mournful but philosophical father, a Christian himself, calls “the radical evangelical extreme. ![]() The Mission makes this point quite convincingly, but there’s a lot more going on in this admirably complex film. ![]() The film is a reminder that, from the non- missionary perspective, and even from a less reckless missionary perspective, such quests represent the height of hubris and arrogance and that unreached peoples generally don’t want to be reached, even if your cosmology determines that they’re going to hell unless you “save” them. Even if you don’t know the story, it’s clear from the start of the new National Geographic documentary The Mission that things did not go well. Chau would have seen the ship’s wreckage as he circumnavigated North Sentinel Island the evening of 14 November, on a boat with five fishermen whom police say he paid 25,000 rupees (275) to. Police officer Vijay Singh said seven fishermen have been arrested for facilitating the American’s visit to North Sentinel Island, where the killing apparently occurred. John Allen Chau about her son’s visit to North Sentinel Island and attack by the tribesmen. An American is believed to have been killed by an isolated Indian island tribe known to fire at outsiders with bows and arrows, Indian police said Wednesday, Nov. A 26-year-old evangelical Christian with a taste for outdoor adventure, he undertook a one-man mission in 2018 to North Sentinel Island, an extremely remote and unreached part of India, to bring the gospel of Jesus to the Sentinelese. The consulate, Pathak said, had been contacted by an American woman, the mother of one Mr. Two years ago, a 26-year-old American missionary seeking to convert the nomadic hunter-gatherer Sentinelese tribe was reportedly killed after he visited the North Sentinel island. ![]()
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