It's Summer Again: The Quiet Parochialism of the American Mission Trip — The Flourishing Journal Opinion · Faith and Society The American Mission Trip Has a Parochialism Problem My students asked me a question in class this week, and I hedged. Here is the answer I should have given. Victor Counted The Flourishing Journal May 2026 We were working through the experimental psychology literature on parochial altruism — the well-replicated finding that humans, and especially people of faith, cooperate generously with their in-group while showing markedly less concern, and sometimes outright hostility, toward outsiders. The data are uncomfortable. They suggest that much of what we call moral behavior is calibrated…