Gretchen E. Boger

Gretchen E. Boger is Director of Curriculum and Instruction and a history teacher at the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr. Pennsylvania. She earned her Ph.D in history from Princeton University in 2008 with a dissertation entitled “American Protestantism in the Asian Crucible, 1919-1939,” about the changing nature of missions after World War I and the role of returned missionaries in American religious discourse. (Author information current at date of publication.)

Missionaries

The Philadelphia region historically produced fewer missionaries than other areas of North America. Through at least the early twentieth century New Englanders and southerners dominated the organized efforts of Christian churches to send out evangelists to convert others to the ...