1/ Reading about Protestant missionaries in the 1830s North American Far West. The first Protestants--Episcopalians--were less interested in behavioralist marks of Christian identity. Monogamy and churchgoing were what mattered. Presbyterians and espcially Congregationalists

2/ seemed to predicate notions of Christianity considerably more on acting "American" and acceding to territorial demands by whites, leading one chief to ask why going on the hunt for buffalo was somehow less Christian than farming. It called to mind @onsikamel's piece on

3/ Protestants in Egypt. Id love him or someone else to visit this in a context of indigenous peoples in North America for @DavenantInst.