After centuries of mission and colonisation, the Philippines remain overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, but up in the Mountain Province, the Igorot people remained pagan until just over a hundred years ago. That was when the Anglican missionaries came. Not wanting to evangelise on Rome’s turf, they limited their activity to those as yet unreached by the Gospel, and the Igorot people welcomed them.
What made the Igorots see the new missionaries differently? How was their own native spirituality treated by the missionaries? How does it continue to inform their Christian lives today?
These are just some of the questions addressed by our guest, Bishop Ray Frenzel Piluden, Anglican Bishop of Santiago and proud Igorot. Be sure to tune in to find out about Christian inculturation in perhaps a less familiar part of Asia - and to hear some Igorot gongs!
9 | The Igorot Spirit and the Gospel