Beneath Their Temples, My Ancestors Still Sing

The Inheritance They Couldn’t Erase

The missionaries came anyway.

Because that’s what missionaries do.

They go where they believe people are “missing something.”

They arrive not to learn, but to replace.

Not to serve, but to recruit.

And somehow, some way, they have the audacity to build temples on sacred ground they once deemed unworthy.

Not because they’ve repented.

But because colonization al…