Abstract
In this well-written biography, Regina D. Sullivan thoroughly eclipses all previous assessments of Lottie Moon, a pioneering Southern Baptist missionary who evangelized in China from 1873 to 1912. Moon is practically unknown outside of Southern Baptist circles, but within them she is revered. Indeed, she is the closest thing that the iconoclastic Southern Baptists, America's largest Protestant denomination, have to a saint. What catapulted Moon into sainthood? Partly it was her extraordinary capacity for self-sacrifice, and partly it was the promotional efforts of her sponsor, the Woman's Missionary Union (WMU), which was founded in 1888 primarily to finance Moon's missionary work. One year after its founding, the WMU launched its Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, which was, and continues to be, the single most important fundraiser for Southern Baptist missions. The Offering appealed in particular to women, and its popularity among them increased in 1912, when Moon reportedly starved herself to death to express solidarity with hungry people in China.
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