SHE WAS A PERSON
Ruth Tucker writes about Kana, a woman from Irian Jaya, who was speaking to a large group of women from her district. “When the gospel came to us Dani people, we were told that the gospel was for the men. The men said we women did not have souls, so we did not need the gospel message. The men crowded around the speakers of the good news. We women were told to sit out on the edges of the crowd and keep the children quiet so the men could get all of the profit from the message.” She was so convinced that she wasn’t a full human and lacked a soul that she questioned her own reality. “Once I was in a group when a photo was taken by the missionary. I was so excited I could not wait until the picture had been developed and came back. When word came that the picture had arrived, I elbowed my…
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