Why did Africa become Christian and, in considerable measure, Anglican? There are various reasons (not least the Holy Spirit), but the Swedish Lutheran historian of mission, Bengt Sundkler, identifies one of the most interesting. It involves a word in Zulu, mfecane. It means “the churning.” For that was what the middle of the 19th century was, mfecane, a great churning of peoples, like a vast laundry dryer: war, famine, disease, the building of the railroad, new education, the coming of the Westerner.
George Sumner. Covenant. 21 November 2016
