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What is the Great Commission and why is it so controversial?

  • Written by Mathew Schmalz, Associate Professor of Religion, College of the Holy Cross
Missionary nuns in a Congolese military camp in 1960.AP Photo/Horst Faas

A majority of church-going American Christians are unfamiliar with the term, the “Great Commission,” a recent survey found.

Even among those familiar with it, 25 percent recognized the phrase but could not explain what it was. Only 17 percent were familiar with the...

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