An account after the Auca ambush in Ecuador, from CT’s seventh issue. On a beautiful Sunday afternoon a year ago, five young women were asking God for two things regarding their husbands: that they ...

Elizabeth Elliot, a missionary to an unreached for Christ tribe in Ecuador, the Waorani Indians, known as Auca cannibals, had her husband Jim martyred by these Auca Indians in October of 1958. I was a ...

What makes a missionary? What is the drive that sends men into deserts and jungles to face fever and frostbite, indifference and hostility? When so many nearer to home need converting, why should five ...

“Faith does not eliminate questions, faith knows where to take them.” The Christian leader who spoke those words could articulate them because her life proved their validity. The Auca Indian tribe in ...

No less than her martyred husband, she could be inspiring and frustrating all at once. Some revere Jim Elliot and his friends as martyrs. Others revile them as oppressors. Both sides have an ...