I was disappointed by the uncritical reporting of the words of Kevin Roberts: “The whole world is mission country today — just like Northfield, Massachusetts, was for the first people who settled here.” [”Protesters oppose Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts as Thomas Aquinas College commencement speaker in Northfield,” Recorder, May 29]. This statement is simply incorrect. The first people who settled here were not Christian missionaries, they were Indigenous Americans with their own culture and spirituality. Colonialism and Christianity have been at the root of countless atrocities, and the destruction of Native American people is one of them. We need moral people of faith to understand how to repair the damage that their own forbears have done, not double down on the kind of Christian nationalism that is embraced by Heritage and Project 2025.

Stephen Roylance

Wendell