In the marketplace, on boats and on streets in late 1890s India, male missionaries found open doors: men interested in hearing their message or reading their material. But when it came to entering people's homes and evangelizing women, doors were shut in the male missionaries’ faces.  In some countries, including India, it was against cultural customs and norms to allow foreign men to talk to their daughters and wives.

These closed doors for male missionaries provided open doors for female ones. And one such woman, Georgia Burrus Burgess, was able to open these doors through a special gift: language. 

Guest: Dr. Edward Allen, retired professor of religion at Union College. 

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