Contents Editor’s Notes Editors’ notes 5 Richard L Starcher Articles COVID-19 in missiological and historical perspective 6 Benjamin L Hartley, Robert A Danielson and James R Krabill John Eliot’s pastoral theology of poverty and an “obscure low condition”—including 21 that of being “a worm”—in his Harmony of the Gospels (1678) published two years after Metacom’s War Travis L. Myers Lactile libations: Mongolian milk offerings 39 William Stephens The challenge and promise of Christian mission to Muslims in a neocolonial era 54 Michael F. Kuhn Ministry in laïque France: Understanding history to confront present challenges 69 Stephen M. Davis The missing generations: The Church in Wales and young people 79 Mark Griffiths John Eliot, John Veniaminov, and Christian engagement with the indigenous 93 peoples of North America: A comparative missiology Joseph William Black