Welcome to our dazzle of stripe-less zebras! Here we tell stories of belonging—finding it, losing it, making it, leaving the places you don’t belong, and ultimately being at home with your true self.

Here I talk to two of my personal heroes, siblings Richard Darr and Dianne Darr Couts. They endured horrific abuse from their parents’ fellow evangelical missionaries growing up in what is now Mali in the 1950s and 1960s. They have since become advocates for missionary kids, relentlessly exposing mission field abuse and pressing mission organizations to reckon with it. They tell their compelling stories, and then we talk about how white evangelical theology helps explain how this culture continues to foster and ignore abuse—and why so many white evangelicals support an abusive President of the United States.

To learn more, you can read Dianne’s memoir,

Watch the documentary All God’s Children about Mamou Academy,

And learn more about/support MK Safety Net.

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Episode 2: White evangelical abuse